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This well gotten up book of 375 pages, without an index, is written by a well known psychiatrist of Amsterdam and one who has studied psychoanalysis first in Zurich some twenty-five years ago when he spent six months with Jung, at a time when the parting of the ways was not evident, and then some years later went through an analysis in Vienna for a year.
From the start he was much interested in Jung's typology as typology, chiefly through Kretschmer, and Klages became more and more a living topic in medical circles. He became, as his Vorwort outlines, more and more convinced that the accent placed upon infantile social factors by Freud in his developing conceptions was more fruitful and more capable of utilization in scientific psychotherapy than that placed by Jung upon the ‘collective unconscious’ with his conceptions of archtypes, the utilization of which concepts has not been made clear so far as the actual therapy of the psychoneuroses is concerned.
Furthermore, he would state that typology seems to have been neglected in Jung's later works, and hence his return to the general notion in this book, aided in matters of more precise formulation by the conceptions of phenomenology as outlined by Husserl and Heidegger. Hence his sketch of the relations of more or less specific types of personality