The Psyche in Antiquity, Book One: Early Greek Philosophy: From Thales to Plotinus (Studies in Jungian Psychology by Jungian Analysts, 85)

The purpose of this book is not to study philosophy, but rather to track the psyche as it manifests in the archetypal ideas that so gripped the early Greeks. These concepts are psychic organisms that still live in us, emerging spontaneously from the unconscious in word associations, art work, dream images and active imagination. The danger in our time is that Greek philosophy might be seen as an abstract skeleton, all structure and no life. Dr. Edinger's unique perspective redeems the relevance of this bedrock of the Western psyche by relating the Greeks' ideas to modern psychological experience.