It is difficult to do justice in a short review to this extremely detailed and scholarly study, which may have an equal appeal for serious students of literature and all those concerned with exploring in depth the task of individuation. The author, whose works already cover an impressive range, sets out to draw parallels between the imaginative processes of inner transformation revealed in a number of Shakespeare's plays and poems and the unconscious dynamic processes reflected in alchemy and psychoanalysis. To achieve this comparison involves an elaborate and fascinating study of Shakespeare's