Secret Raven: Conflict and Transformation in the Life of Franz KafkaThis study focuses on the artistic personality, and iin particular on the life and dreams of the writer Franz Kafka. Beginning with a biographical sketch of Kafka and a description of the conflicts that marked his life, the author explores the psychological meaning of the tension involved in a clash between instinctual demands and the spiritual life, between love and sex, or between inner and outer reality.
An important book, absorbing the utterly persuasive. --Anthony Stevens, M.D., Psychiatrist and Jungian Analyst, author of Archetypes: A Natural History of the Self
Sympathetic, perceptive and concise. --Robertson Davies, author of The Manticore and The Rebel Angels
A valuable study for those interested in the development of the creative personality and the meaning of the 'mid-life crisis' --Elizabeth F. Brown, M.D. and Jungian Analyst, in Journal of Analytical Psychology (London)
Worth reading simply as a vivid, succinct way to more fully grasp a lot of fundamental Jungian concepts. Particularly good on the psychological aspects of the puer aeternus, the provisional life, and the anima. --Raymond F. Kilduff, M.D. and Jungian Analyst, in Quadrant (Journal of the C.G. Jung Foundation, New York)
