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This work is intended to contribute to the problem of origins of artistic creativity from the standpoint of the Jungian school of psychology. It is well printed and lavish with illustrations, for the most part from works of art that illustrate episodes in the Bible by formerly little-known medieval Jewish artists.
The book, divided into three parts, consists of 1, a general discussion of Jungian psychology; 2, a commentary on various episodes from the Bible (notably Genesis, Cain and Abel, Akedah, the Book of Job, and Jacob and Esau); and 3, the case history of a patient, a girl artist, with notes concerning her therapy and her drawings and paintings.
An excessively large number of quotations from literary and religious works, ranging from the Sumerian period to the present, but for the most part from the Bible, confuses the continuity of the book. Starting from the questionable assumption that modern science could not have been developed without the stimulating effect of Christianity, the author indicates that the Middle Ages, the