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This collection of well organized lectures, most of which were delivered in England several years ago and published separately, presents analytical psychology in the framework developed by C. G. Jung who has written a foreword to the book. The essays cover the field adequately starting with the general principles of the technique of analytical psychology describing the difference between free and controlled associations, passing on to the studies on dreams, and to the relation of the ego to the cycle of life.
There are instructive essays on the unconscious mechanisms in psychic healing and on the psychological aspects of religion and a final one on Jung's explanation of modern conscious processes.
The illustrations of symbolic expressions including those of patients and their associations thereto are remarkable in their import and value in revealing a mass of archaic material. The text is well documented, and there is very little of a basic nature that has not been said previously by Jung and others, but the author presents it interestingly and his analyses are keen and highly instructive. It is a worthwhile book to have available for reference.