In this book Frances Gray proposes a revision of the concept of individuation via a ‘conversation’ between C.G. Jung and Luce Irigaray, based on the commonality of interests between the two theorists. Both Jung and Irigaray regard the sexes as ontologically separate and the concepts of masculine and feminine as central. Luce Irigaray is a philosopher as well as an analyst and, as Frances Gray demonstrates, some of the philosophers with whom she engages have clearly influenced Jung. Each thinker has an interest in Eastern religion and both recognize the fundamental importance of spirituality to human being.

Like Irigaray, Frances Gray develops her thesis in the context of a world of supposedly gender-neutral socio-cultural settings, where traditional associations of ‘the feminine’ and women with matter and nature still subtly underlie and inform the social practices of a diversity of collectives, all of which come under a ‘patriarchal