(1982). Journal of Analytical Psychology, 27:275-276 [Authors are invited to submit for review articles published in learned journals on subjects relevant to this section. They may also send chapters which would be of interest to our readers, but which were written for books that neither the publisher nor the editor of the book is submitting to our Book Review section.] Madame Gilberte Aigrisse, who is the Honorary President of the Belgian Society of Analytical Psychology, has written a thought-provoking paper about some of Charles Baudoin's theories and of their roots in his personal psychology, a link that the post-Cartesian may no longer ignore or deny. She suggests that Baudoin's dominant archetypally determined preoccupation was with the senses and with the drive towards wholeness, and that this inevitably informed and marked his work. Charles Baudoin is little known in the Anglo-Saxon world, which is a pity, for he was both poet and psychologist, both philosopher and clinician. He is, I think, of special interest to the Jun [This is a summary or excerpt from the full text of the book or article. The full text of the document is available to subscribers.] |
