Analytical Psychology and the English Mind

Baynes is an exponent of Jung. Jung expounds wholeness. This wholeness can be attained by finding the Self. This is the central theme of the papers in this book, and will command general agreement amongst thinking people, especially in the present world confusion and disharmony, where the need for a synthetic principle by which unity can be restored is urgent. That such a synthetic principle exists is obvious, for without it there would never be anything but chaos. The question is, have Jung and Baynes found it ? Baynes's writing is lucid, his knowledge wide, his sincerity unquestionable. There is a spiritual fervour in his work as in that of all the Jungians which is lacking in the more limited disciplines of Freud and Adler. It is in fact this very fervour which made Freud refer contemptuously to Jung as