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This is a surprising, well written, and even-handed account of an important but relatively little known historical movement, the dissemination of Carl Jung's ideas around the world from Switzerland to New Zealand. Did anyone who was not an insider know, for instance, that one third of all Jungian analysts were and are Jews? None of those Jewish Jungians who knew Jung or worked with him during the period of his peculiar, brief flirtation with Hitler's Germany in the early 1930s experienced the slightest hint of anti-Semitism from him. Or was it widely known that Jung's ideas flourished in Italy and particularly impressed several important scholars of the Orient there. Even more surprising, Freud's first Italian follower, Edouardo Weiss, a Jew, became a Jungian and then migrated to Freud's Chicago Psychoanalytic Institute. Finally, there are remarkable similarities to the history of Freud's psychoanalytic movement as well as some unique characteristics of Jung and his followers.
Typical of Jung's movement were Jews and gentiles alike who shared a passionate interest in religion and mysticism, not as pathology or wish fulfillment, but as enduring and valid aspects of the human psyche. Equally unique was the Jungian welcome to anyone who wished to become an analyst, not just people with medical or academic degrees, as became the rule later in Freud's psychoanalysis, although there were