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… Jung's breadth of view, which is one of the glories of this work, will undoubtedly be a stumbling block for many. What for him is only ‘sufficient room’, for others of lesser scope will be a disorienting vastness of depth in which they are lost. Also, the strictly empirical-descriptive method to which Jung holds will be a problem to those who need the security of containment in well-ordered theoretical constructions no matter how narrowly based or premature they may be. From such critics will come the familiar epithets of dismissal.…
Nevertheless, what Jung has to convey is so truly original and so far-ranging in its implications that I suspect that this book will be a real challenge even to those most psychologically sophisticated. What he here presents in rich and documented detail can perhaps best be described as an anatomy of the objective psyche. As with all anatomy books, it is not easy reading.…
Jung's so-called allusive style is very evident in this book. Image is piled upon image; parallels and analogies branch out and intertwine in all directions until the reader feels caught in a labyrinthine network. Repeatedly, while reading, I found that I had lost my