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This volume entitled “Timeless (Eternal) Documents of the Mind” (to use a free translation) contains three studies from the Carl G. Jung Institute in Zurich. The first by Jacobsohn is called “The Dialogue of a Life-weary Man and His Ba” which is a translation of a four thousand years old Egyptian papyrus. This translation is accompanied by a minute analysis and commentary of the document from the religious-archetypical-mystical point of view of Jung. The ingenuity and verbal gymnastics is something to conjure with. The second paper by Von Franz is “Descartes Dream.” Here we are given a close analysis of the possible unconscious elements revealed, all from the Jungian stand point, of course. The author also comes to grips with two Freudian interpretations of this same dream published in 1939 and 1947. It is interesting to note the differences of approach, analysis, and interpretation. Needless to say, the “collective unconscious-archetypical” gets a large play.
The third paper in this volume is the most valuable and the most interesting. It is entitled “Archetypical Motives in Chassidic Mysticism.” In this paper Dr. Hurwitz undertakes a searching study of possible knowledge or intimations of some understanding of an