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This multi-faceted collection of essays and conversations brings together a range of perspectives about Jung, Jungian theory, and the nature of science in a way that is in turn brilliant, informative, provocative, bewildering, controversial and disengaging. The authors are all part of the International Association for Jungian Studies which was set up to enable a place for academic Jung scholars to engage in dialogue with each other and with interested clinicians. The book continues this dialogue with perspectives from clinical work, literary theory, psycho-cultural studies, Orthodox Christianity, religious studies, history of psychology and others; all put forward views on Jung and the question of science in ways that are sometimes complementary and concordant with each other and, at other times, contradictory and opposed. The strength of the book lies in its invitation to the authors to state as clearly as possible their view, without having to gather them all up together in a way that smoothes over difference and disagreement. This means that it can be quite disconcerting for the reader to shift from grappling with and understanding one perspective in one