ABSTRACT
The literature on child psychology, enormous as it is, contains few contributions by analytical psychologists. Jung’s essays have recently been collected together in a volume: The Development of Personality. 2 In all his investigations he underlines the effect which the unsolved problems of parents have upon children, and focuses attention on the unconscious mind of parents as the source of children’s difficulties. He sees that children are forced to experience and act out essentially adult problems; it is the parents who are the most frequent and main cause of behaviour disorders and neurotic symptoms.
