Critical notice: SHAMDASANI, SONU. Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology: The Dream of a Science. Cambridge:  Cambridge University Press. 2003. Pp.  xvi+387. Hbk. £50.00; pbk. £18.99.

As all readers of this journal, and many other Jungian publications, are well aware, a great debt is owed to Sonu Shamdasani for his contribution to our understanding of the historical context of Jung's thought and work. His new book, Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology, adds further lustre to his reputation as one of the most meticulous and thorough investigators of the history of psychology and psychoanalysis. Virtually every page of this book is filled with new information regarding the intellectual context within which Jung was working as he sought to unfold the map of the psyche that has come down to us as analytical psychology. Given the breadth and depth of Shamdasani's command of late 19^th and early 20^th Centuries psychology, it is unlikely that this book will ever be superceded as a source of understanding this contextual material.

By way of example, I was almost immediately taken by surprise, and then by a sense of genuine delight, in reading Shamdasani's account of the origins of that most pressing issue, the personal equation and its impact on the analytical process. Who would have guessed, after reading about the personal equation for years in the analytic literature, that the problem was first identified by astronomers who were perplexed by the fact that various observers made slightly different calculations of the positions of celestial bodies. Thus it was in one of the most rigorous of the natural sciences that the problem of the individual observer's impact on the analytic process first emerged. Shamdasani's book is replete with similar instances of approaches to the psyche that are now long obscured by subsequent developments in the sciences, many of which would be lost to scholarship if it were not for the level of commitment that Shamdasani demonstrates throughout his work.

My admiration for what has gone into this book is therefore both genuine and deep. But it is essential in approaching it that the reader pays close attention to the deeper