Psychology or Religion?

Abstract

THIS volume, which is attractively produced and well illustrated, purports to be the first verbatim account ever published of a dream-analysis on Jungian lines. (Jung's numerous own seminar accounts of dream analyses published in limited number for the use of his students may not have come to the notice of the author.) In Part 1, twelve professional sessions are described in which a number of dreams and so-called visions of a woman patient were discussed. This is followed by a brief theoretical discussion, a summary of the dream process, and a description of the subsequent remarkable development of the patient's mentally defective daughter. Since one dream of the patient contains the figure of a hare which she is meant to kill or sacrifice, Part 2 of the book deals with the mythology of the hare, and the author follows up the hare motive in myths and folklore of India, China, Egypt, Africa, North America, Europe and classical antiquity. In Part 3, more dreams about hares and rabbits are communicated.

The Lady of the Hare

Being a Study in the Healing Power of Dreams. By Dr. John Layard. Pp. 277. (London: Faber and Faber, Ltd., 1944.) 12s. 6d. net.