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Renos Papadopoulos, from the Centre for Psychoanalytic Studies at the University of Essex, has edited a comprehensive, scholarly, and highly readable presentation of the major tenets of analytical psychology. Intended for specialists but also for those seeking an introduction to Jungian psychology, it may be read by graduate students in psychology with profit. It represents a serious successful attempt at a total picture of Jungian thought. Other works that it parallels are: Hopcke's A Guided Tour of the Collected Works of C. G. Jung (1989), Young-Eisendrath and Dawson's The Cambridge Companion to Jung (1997), and Samuels, Shorter, and Plaut's A Critical Dictionary of Jungian Analysis (1986). Papadopoulos's volume updates and extends all of the aforementioned works.
This volume is a welcome addition to the Jung library and makes analytical psychology available to a larger reading public. It is hoped it may have a positive impact in the United States where depth psychology is rarely taught in the undergraduate curriculum. Although psychology is one of the most popular American majors, Freud, Jung, and depth psychology are rarely present or are marginalized in introductory psychology texts. As one colleague remarked to me, if Freud gets a page, Jung gets a paragraph. And that paragraph probably includes a short comment about extrovert-introvert-case closed. This neglect exists in spite of the fact that 1.5 million undergraduates take introductory psychology courses every year. The Division of Psychoanalysis of the American Psychological Association has made efforts to improve this neglect and Jungian associations might consider a similar effort. One should not completely despair as both Freud and Jung are taught in philosophy and literature departments as applied psychoanalysis and in the case of Jung in departments of religion. I suspect that this neglect is less pronounced in Great Britain and the continent.
Additionally, many psychoanalytic terms have been translated