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This very excellent setting forth of the psychology of woman by a woman, and a follower of Jung, should be very cordially received and have a wide reading, for the Jungian psychology has a contribution to make that is not to be ignored. It will perhaps give as good an idea of the book as anything else if the last two paragraphs are quoted in full:
“In these chapters the psychological problems of woman have unfolded themselves as they occur in the various phases of her fate. Through facing the daily reality of her life a gradual growth and deepening of consciousness is achieved. Her personal and egotistic desires recede before a more fundamental aim and are replaced by a supra-personal value which is related to the deeper principles of life. Out of this development woman finds for herself a spirituality based on the principle of Eros, which is expressed in life by a new kind of human relationship.
“As we have followed woman through the various vicissitudes of her life, the myth of womanhood, shrouded by the illusion of man's anima, which he has projected upon her, and which she has carried uncomplainingly through all the years of her unconsciousness, has faded and the real woman, as she is in herself, has emerged. In so defining her personality she has released herself from the anima projection of the man; she has stripped herself as far as possible from the garment of glamor with which he has clothed her and has dared to reveal herself in her weakness and in her strength. Man's illusion painted her in colors superhuman both in their brilliance and in their somber tones. To him she has seemed divinely fair and daemonically ugly. When she steps out into the light, she both loses and gains by the change. Formerly the effects she produced arose from the unconscious, either her own or the man's and she could have little or no control over them. Now, for the first time she is humanly responsible for her own qualities. If she sins she can repent; if she does well it is he