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DESPITE its sub-heading, the title of this volume is somewhat ambiguous. It might mean mythology about the soul, or mythology that is created by the soul. This is unfortunate; for a book is not seldom judged by its title. One has, however, only to open it and read through a few pages to see what its author means. Dr. Baynes is occupied with the kind of phantasy that occurs when “before the human mind had ever set itself to the labour of thought, the myth already flowed like a natural fountain out of the unconscious”. These are the opening words of his introduction, and they strike the key-note of what follows.
Mythology of the Soul:
a Research into the Unconscious from Schizophrenic Dreams and Drawings. By H. G. Baynes. Pp. xii + 939 + 42 plates. (London: Baillière, Tindall and Cox, 1940.) 32s. 6d.
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Mythology of the Soul. Nature 147, 74 (1941). https://doi.org/10.1038/147074b0
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