QUADRANT  XXVII, 2, Summer 1997.

Quadrant, the Journal of the C. G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology (New York), celebrates its thirtieth birthday with its next issue (winter 1998). I consider myself fortunate to have been a lay member of the Foundation at the time of Quadrant's origin and therefore have a nearly complete collection of issues. In its first format, Quadrant appeared three times a year. It was a very distinguished newsletter, containing articles by Edward Edinger, Franz Riklin, Marie-Louise von Franz, Joseph Wheelwright, Joseph Henderson, James Kirsch and June Singer, as well as reports on the Second Bailey Island Conference, a lecture on Astrology and the Age of Aquarius by Gret Baumann-Jung, a lecture series by Joseph Campbell, and the Collected Papers of Eleanor Bertine.

With Number 16, Spring 1974, it renamed itself a journal (its present title), increased the size of its pages and doubled their number to about sixty. Meanwhile, the quadrated image on the cover becomes a dynamic exercise in squaring the circle. This change marks a shift in identity from a report on the New York Jungian scene to articles exploring major themes of analytical psychology. Barbara Hannah provides a fifteen page account of her Conversations with Jung in the Jung Centennial issue (winter, 1975) which ran to 132 pages. In 1977, the squares and circles disappear from the cover, replaced by the authors and titles of the articles, and the issues have square bindings in standard journal format, about seventy pages per issue. Edinger, von Franz, Philip Zabriskie, and Nathan Schwartz are regular contributors, and there are translations of articles by Erich Neumann.

In 1989 the journal changes again, now bearing pictures on the cover, then expanding its format dramatically, becoming glossy, and assuming a new focus and subtitle (A Journal of Contemporary Jungian Thought) in which each issue is organized around a specific topic: stages of life, pop culture, art and soul, etc. It was an ambitious publicati