Mythos and logos in the thought of Carl Jung : the theory of the collective unconscious in scientific perspective /

Shelburne has written an ambitious book on Jung in which his stated purpose is to determine the naturalistic/scientific basis of Jungian theory. Speciafically, the text focuses on the theory of archetypes as a concept or set of concepts which may be subjected to a logical analysis from which it may be determined whether or not such concepts have a naturalistic/scientific basis. Theories of Personality, ed. by G. Lindzey and C.S. Hall (1965), and many other personality texts have presented basic Jungian concepts, analyzing the scientific/heuristic utility of such concepts, including archetypes. Shelburne's text adds scholastic depth to such analyses; however, the analysis seems to lose focus. To conclude that E.D. Wilson's work (e.g., Sociobiology, CH, Nov '75) supports a biological basis for archetypical theory seems, to this reviewer, to be unsupportable. Nonetheless, few speculative books of this kind appear in library offerings outside of theology schools. Consequently, renewed interest in Jung should make this book a useful addition to most undergraduate libraries. M. W. York University of New Haven