....back in the word association days in which he did his best to fit psyche into the mold of Newtonian science. Outdated except as a history of Jung's early work and glimpses at later developments.

With 20th century starts, C.G. Jung began his career as a psychiatrist. This book opens with Jung's dissertation "On the psychology and pathology of so-called occult phenomena". This study foreshadows much of his later works, and analyzes the case of somnambulism in a girl with poor inheritance. The next is "On hysterical misreading". In reply to the review of an earlier paper, accepted views on hysterical misreading are reiterated, and the theories are supported by interpretations from a clinical case. This book also includes studies of "hyterical parapraxes in reading", "Cryptomnesia", "On manic mood disorder", "simulated insanity" etc. It might be interesting to compare Jung's early papers with "Study on Hysterie", Freud's first psycho-anaystic work.

This is the 20th and final volume of the Collected Works of Carl Jung (1875-1961), the "General Index to the Collected Works", assembled by editors and first published in 1979. Clearly, this is not a book one reads from cover to cover. Nevertheless, it is indispensable to anyone studying Jung in depth or compiling a "Jungian" interpretation of something. Jung was extraordinarily well read in philosophy, comparative religion & mythology, and alchemy, and his works are dense with those quotes. He frequently cites dreams to illustrate a point, and one can look up these exemplary dreams by topic in this index. This is a unique reference work.

Jung wasn't known to be strong on developmental theory, and he proves it in this collection. Sparks of illumination but not much developmental meat to the book.