Jung and the Story of Our Time

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'In these pages Jung not only lives, he thrives' - New Society Carl Gustav Jung's influence on the development of psychology has been immense. His ideas and even his terminology have entered the language in a way that is only paralleled by the case of Freud. Laurens van der Post first met Jung shortly after the war when Jung was in his seventies. He was immediately impressed both by Jung's intellect and by his warmth and stature as a man. This book is both the story of their friendship and an unflinching portrait of a pioneering creative genius. 'Jung's inner and outer life, his ideas and their meaning for modern man, are finely woven together on the loom of van der Post's subtle understanding. Good food for the psyche' - Jacquetta Hawkes Cover photograph by Karsh of Ottawa Camera Press [Text from back cover.]