Religious and psychological concepts are so interwoven in Dr. Kunkel's book that their disentanglement is quite impossible. Add to this that they are stated in the language of Jungian mysticism, modified to suit the author, and the confusion becomes complete. In spite of its promising title the book is merely hortatory. Following Jung it denies the Oedipal situation as anything but a figment due to archaic 'images' which are supposedly part of the instinctive equipment of the newborn child. There is much talk of something called 'the shadow', of the self as opposed to the ego, of dark powers (of which hypnosis is evidence), of the