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Article: Book reviews: Jung: On the case of the super-ego

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January 25, 2004
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JUNG Deirdre Bair Little, Brown, GBP 25

CARL Gustav Jung was a guru and a psychotic, unable to countenance the thought that his theories of the unconscious might be wrong. That, at least, was the view of one of his admirers, Anthony Storr. To his opponents, the Swiss psychologist who gave us such terms as 'synchronicity' and 'New Age' was a charlatan who hoodwinked patients, disciples and the general public for much of his 86-year life, leaving a legacy tainted by accusations of Nazism.

There are many biographies of Jung, and whenever a new one appears, the first question is which side is it on. Will it paint Jung as a sympathetic monster, or merely a monstrous one?

Deirdre Bair's ...

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