ABSTRACT
Father White's book has the merit of being the first theological work from the Catholic side to concern itself with the farreaching effects of the new empirical knowledge in the realm of archetypal ideas, and to make a serious attempt to integrate it. God is a psychic quantity which nothing can deprive of its reality, which does not insist on a definite name and which allows itself to be called reason, energy, matter, or even ego. Modern medicine has just begun to take account of this fact, which the psychotherapists have been emphasizing for a long time. In the same way, long years of experience have shown him over and over again that a therapy along purely biological lines does not suffice, but requires a spiritual complement. This becomes especially clear to the medical psychologist where the question of dreams is concerned; for dreams, being statements of the unconscious, play no small part in the therapy.
