Beebe, John (ed.) - Question of Psychological Types (Princeton, 2013)

Jung’s PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPES appeared in 1921 to widespread

acclaim and received many laudatory reviews.1 In a two- page

spread in the New York Times Book Review, Mark Isham

concluded: “This volume is drastically serious, positive, didactic,

classic, and yet more than stimulating. It is energizing, liberating

and recreative. The author shows an amazingly sympathetic

knowledge of the introvert of the thinking type, and

hardly less for the other types. . . . Jung has revealed the inner

kingdom of the soul marvelously well and has made the signal

discovery of the value of phantasy. His book has a manifold

reach and grasp, and many reviews with quite different subject

matter could be written about it” (1923). Psychological

Types has been one of Jung’s most infl uential and enduring

works, leaving an indelible mark on psychology, psychotherapy,

personality testing, anthropology, popular culture,

and even language. It was Jung’s fi rst major publication in

nearly a decade since his 1911– 12 book on Transformations and

Symbols of the Libido.