The Independent - London, November 21st, 1999
The night after I finished this engrossing biography, I had a strange dream. The founder of analytical psychology, Carl Gustav Jung, was standing among the reeds at the edge of a pond. He was only six inches tall and struggling to fling a fish twice his size back where it belonged. Upon waking, I was overcome by shame. By Jung's standards, my raid on the empire of the unconscious could scarcely have been less impressive. I was plainly not the stuff of which redeemers of the race are made. Jung's dreams, of course, were portentous from the start. As a boy, he had two seminal dreams that obsess...
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