ABSTRACT

The field of analytical psychology and psychoanalysis has been bedevilled with more than its fair share of controversies, splits and schisms. These range from the original Freud/Jung split, whose ghost can still be discerned haunting the current volume, through to the present-day proliferation of analytic trainings, organizations and ideologies-most of them jealously staking their own claim to truth. The bitterness of some of the resultant disputes would stand unique among the sciences, were it not for the fact that we are unable to agree that analysis is a science, or, if it is, what kind. That controversy too stalks this book.