Jung studies has its special problems. To begin with, Jung was not as clear a writer as Freud; while there are stunning passages containing important clinical wisdom strewn throughout Jung's work, few of his books carry readers as effortlessly along as Freud's succeeded in doing. Perhaps it takes a special imaginative leap to overcome the Freudian atmosphere in which we all have been reared.

Although no comprehensive biography has yet been authorized by the Jung family, Barbara Hannah's book (1976) is about the best I have come across, and yet it has an amateurish flavor. That only now is the Jung family seriously weighing commissioning a proper biography, relying on all the documents in their possession, tells us something about the standards of privacy and propriety that still influence Swiss life. The problem has been compounded by the relative sloppiness of Jungian scholarship. Criticisms have been