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Article: Jung.(Jung: A Biography)(Book review)
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- July 1, 2006
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Jung
Deirdre Bair
Little, Brown & Co.
Boston, New York, London
ISBN: 0316076651, $35.00, 881 pp.
JUNG: A BIOGRAPHY, by the eminent biographer Deirdre Bair, is a meticulously researched, arresting, and well-written book about the great analyst and theorist who is second only to Freud in the annals of psychoanalysis. The biography was authorized by the Jung family, who as his heirs and the recipients of his royalties, have refused access to his archives to those writers they consider unsympathetic to him. Does this make Bair less able to be objective in her assessment of Jung? Perhaps. But then, who among us can be completely ...