The Economist (US), September 14th, 1996
CARL GUSTAV JUNG. By Frank McLynn. Bantam Press; 624 pages; 25
PREVIOUS books by Frank McLynn include biographies of two intrepid Victorian explorers, H.M. Stanley and Richard Burton. They are subjects much more to his liking; Carl Jung, the explorer of the interior of the mind, is certainly not. Indeed, it is hard to fathom why anybody would wish to expend so much time and so many words on a person he finds so distasteful.
Again and again Mr McLynn denounces Jung-who, God knows, was no saint-for moral degeneracy in every sphere of his life. He was an ungrateful son. He despised his pastor...
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