God and the Unconscious

Extract

Fr Victor White has contributed so frequently to The Life of the Spirit that any attempt to avoid a slightly domestic atmosphere in this account of his work would be forced and unnatural. Not that this present collection of his essays contains more than one which has appeared here already. Some day, we hope, the others which have been published here may also be collected into a book. Such a work would be more concerned with the theological side of the frontiers of psychology and theology than is God and the Unconscious, where psychology is at least the starting-point—thougli never the terminus. Much of the material will be familiar to the readers of Blackjriars, Dominican Studies, and the Guild of Pastoral Psychology pamphlets. But there are several important new chapters; all the essays have been re-worked; and the result is a book of surprising unity.