Yet another biography of Jung. Who cares what a writer does in his life. Bair does not disentangle the only interesting possible meaning: to what extent did his life influence his ideas? Being president of a medical society or womanizing or even dealing with Nazi fiends--what does that all mean to ideas that are, to my mind, the most profound in the 20th century.

These ideas put Freud's myopic obsessing about his mother and father in the intellectual shade. He was too much of his bourgeois time; Jung was of all civilization.