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Dr. Long has given us a book of peculiar interest for American readers. While the book is a collection of essays and papers which have been read at various places and is therefore not a consistent unfolding of her subject, still the minor repetitions that inevitably occur do not seriously detract from its consecutive reading. The main point of interest is that the Doctor is an adherent of the Zurich School and in her various papers sets forth, better than in any other publication in English, so far as the reviewer knows, the tenets of that school and wherein it differs in its teachings from those of Freud. These differences cover more particularly Jung's concept of the unconscious, his insistence upon the prospective character of dreams and his idea of the meaning of the incest complex and of the goal of psychoanalysis. These ideas are set forth here and there in various of the essays and are supported by numerous quotations from Jung's writings. There is also a brief account of Jung's concept of the four principal types of character: the introverted and the extroverted, about which he wrote some years ago and the more recently elaborated intuitional and sensory types. Jung's concept of the collective unconscious, the creative aspects of the unconscious and its myth-making and religion-creating characteristics are referred to. While some of his differences with Freud are radical it would appear that others of them are not necessarily such great departures as to be unassimilable. The book is to be recommended to all those who desire to acquaint themselves with the particular conceptions elaborated and projected by Jung and his followers.
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