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This book fills an important gap, and as the publishers say, it ‘will be invaluable for trainees and practitioners in analytical psychology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, psychotherapy, counselling, social work and religion’. It will help those who want to read and understand Jung himself, or any other writer of analytical psychology who until now has had to rely on Jung's own definitions, or the often inaccurate ones of non-analytical psychologists. This dictionary overcomes the more obvious drawbacks to these, and also includes terms which have arisen or been adapted or amended since Jung's death.
The inspirations for this work were Rycroft's Critical Dictionary of Psychoanalysis, and Laplanche and Pontalis's Language of Psychoanalysis. Those intersted in analytical psychology have at last a reference book to place them on an equal footing with the psychoanalytically oriented colleagues. In general it succeeds in being both comprehensive and concise and, as the authors say in their introduction, it aims to include the following:
terms and ideas introduced and developed primarily by Jung;
terms and ideas in general usage in psychodynamics used in a particular way by Jung;
ordinary words used by Jung in a particular way;
major terms introduced and developed by other analytical psychologists;
psychoanalytic terms which overlap with analytical psychology where there is a sharp divergence or when comparison might prove helpful to the reader.
The entries include technical terms like anima or shadow, Jungian ideas or concepts like archetype and collective unconscious and thoughts or themes which are central to Jungian ideology like sacrifice, religion and numinosum.
The authors have taken on a massive task in trying to condense under precise logical headings Jung's ideas, intuitions, associations and images. There are bound to appear to be contradictions, as Jung never wholly abandoned, and rarely revised, anything he wrote, preferring to insert more up-to-date material into earl