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. (ed.). Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal. London: Routledge, 1997. Pp. 177. Pbk £14.99.
This book joins four others - Jung on Active Imagination, Jung on Alchemy, Jung on the East and Jung on Evil - already published by Routledge. This volume groups a selection of key readings under three main headings (‘Encountering the paranormal’, ‘The theory of synchronicity’ and ‘Outer limits’) which are further divided into twelve sub-sections, each with a focus on specific areas such as ‘Spiritualism’, ‘Astrology and the I Ching’, ‘Jung's astrological experiment’, ‘Visions and altered states’ and ‘Miscellaneous insights and speculations’. Main has written a comprehensive and thoughtful introduction which not only clarifies his choices, but also moves beyond them to consider and evaluate Jung's work on synchronicity in the context of his time and of the present.
. Your Shadow. Virginia Beach, Virginia: A.R.E. Press, 1997. Pp. xviii + 154. Pbk $12.95.
This is an unusually intelligent and accessible contribution to the ‘self-improvement’ literature. Robertson is a Jungian-oriented psychologist who demonstrates a profound and personal grasp of the intricacies and benefits of recognizing and engaging with shadow issues. He neither trivializes nor mystifies the power and dynamics inherent in such an engagement and his choice of material to amplify and illustrate his thesis - that the shadow is essential to our wholeness and need not be feared and excluded - includes Blake, Conrad, St. Thomas Aquinas, Tolkien, Wilhelm, Piaget and, of course, Jung. The material chosen always serves to ‘ground’ the concepts he is introducing, such as projection, active imagination, the personal and the collective unconscious, the use of dreams, as well as that of ‘Freudian slips’. An extremely readable and absorbing introduction to Jungian thought.
. (ed.). Major Issues in the Life and Work of C. G. Jung. Maryland: University Pres