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… This very personal method of presentation succeeds admirably. Humbert knew Jung and worked with him for over twenty years and his evident affinity with him runs like an undercurrent throughout, exciting the reader's interest and carrying him forward. His complete digestion of this very complex subject has enabled him to produce a succinct, rigorous yet lively account of the essential Jung, and the many quotations are sufficiently short and so arranged as never to interrupt the flow of exposition. He disclaims any pretension to portray the ‘real’ man, confining all biographical detail to a chronology of the life along with a complete bibliography and a list of books about him in French. For the serious student, Professor Humbert's Jung must be greeted as a most distinguished contribution. The absence of clinical examples, apart from some reference to material used by Jung himself, may mean that the book will appeal less to the layman than Introduction to Jung's Psychology (published in 1953), which has been available in French since 1979. I hope Humbert's Jung will in turn be translated into English, with less delay.
(From JAP, 29, 3, July 1984)