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This very personal rumination about the direction analytical psychology has taken was written some years ago. The paper meanders around reflections which embrace criticisms of this Journal as well as accounts of meetings the author has had and references to significant events in his own development. Some familiar old chestnuts about the Journal of Analytical Pscyhology (JAP) are aired, in particular that, in publishing papers which are reductive and object relations focused, the religious spirit in Jungian psychology was being ignored.
In the first editorial of the JAP in 1955 dedicated to Jung for his 80th birthday Fordham wrote: ‘the truly gigantic and fundamental nature of Jung's labours, however, could never blind us to our own capacity to work out in more detail, or to apply in new spheres, those concepts which can and need to be subjected to scrutiny, constructive criticism and elaboration’ (JAP, 1, 1). Fordham went on to write that the discussions within our Society in London had made three things clear: ‘first of all Jung's concepts were capable of useful elaborations; secondly there was insufficient recorded case