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Foremost among the lay analysts who give full allegiance to Jung, Mrs. Wickes has written a companion volume and sequel to her Inner World of Childhood which is filled with the same intuitive perceptions of human frailties and is written in the same engaging style which made her former volume so widely read.
The first chapter is devoted to the exposition of familiar analytical concepts and to the definition of such terms as Archetypes, Persona, Shadow, Animus, and Anima. She makes one or two points which deserve mention, as for example, that symbols may have a collective or a purely personal value, and that, for any given individual, the most important consideration is what she calls his individual relation to these images in his unconscious. Other therapists would probably abbreviate this idea by the use of the term Insight.
Chapter two deals with dreams, and cites examples showing the appearance in dreams of images which are recognized to correspond with one or other of the collective Archetypes. She suggests that the dream has a fourfold function: to reveal the nature of the current situation, to suggest modes of correction, to bring out through these archetypal images the deeper underlying attitudes, and to compensate and balance the scale of psychological values.
While stressing the significance of the dreamer's associations to his own material, the author none the less leaves the impression that her dream interpretations are often of an intuitive character, based on her own wide experience with this type of material. It is always well, however, to recognize that the limitations of