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Eighty-four years ago, in 1912, Jung gave his ‘The theory of psychoanalysis’ lectures at Fordham University in New York. The following year, the inaugural edition of The Psychoanalytic Review was led off by the first instalment of the series of these lectures ( Psychoanal. Rev., I, 1913, pp. 1-40). The remainder of Jung's Fordham lectures were published in succeeding issues of The Psychoanalytic Review, volumes I and II (1914-15); a translation of the original German version of these lectures is to be found in the Collected Works, 4, pp. 84-226. While there has been a smattering of articles about Jung in the psychoanalytic literature over the years, mostly of historical focus, this is the first volume of The Psychoanalytic Review devoted to the exploration of developments in analytical psychology. This is especially auspicious in light of The Journal of Analytical Psychology's recent and upcoming American conferences which also are seeking to enrich the dialogue between psychoanalysis and analytical psychology. Curiously, eighty-four years constitutes one full cycle of Uranus, as if time has come for the intuitive, original ideas in Jung's work to come to fruition.
Andrew Samuels does a masterful job both as guest editor, in his selection and orchestration of articles, and as author of the first article: ‘Jung's return from banishment’. His paper is an emotional roller coaster, starting slowly with a presentation of his observations derived from teaching seminars on Jung at universities around the world, leading into two main areas of associations to ‘Jung’: the Freud-Jung split, and allegations of anti-Semitism, even Nazism.
After a brief history of the rupture between Freud and Jung, Samuels goes on to enumerate thirteen major areas of Jung's foresight in analytic thought. The explication of Jung's brilliant intuitions is uplifting and should help in reclaiming the importance of his pioneering genius. There follows an unflinching review of some troublesom