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I must confess from the start of this book review that I took it on as a challenge. I am no expert on postmodernism; indeed I have found it an elusive concept that captures my imagination at one moment, then slips away annoyingly at the next. Appignanesi's (Appignanesi & Garratt 1999, p. 173) remark that ‘the only cure for postmodernism is the incurable illness of romanticism’ does have its appeal! However, although my identity as a Jungian analyst has always been firmly based in the consulting room, my curiosity to read Christopher Hauke's book was stirred by a wish to make a new journey out of the safe container of my consulting room into new, more academic territory.
Hauke's book is timely for three reasons. Firstly, criticisms of Jung (or worse his dismissal as irrelevant) as ‘a mystic’, ‘a reactionary’, as ‘anti-Semitic’ etc. continue and a serious, well-researched book such as this is likely to be a welcome antidote to help counteract projections onto Jung, and analytical psychology in general, which are often based on poor scholarship. Secondly, I believe that my own clinical training with the Society of Analytical Psychology (SAP) left me technically well educated to work in the consulting room but