Abstract

Women in Twentieth-Century Literature: A Jungian View is a collection of ten essays that depends on Jung's "analytical technique and vocabulary." At the same time the author, Bettina Knapp, reevaluates and revises Jung's "concepts when the need arises," thus keeping "pace with changing times and different customs," and avoiding "a single-minded inquiry" . Arranging her essays in a cycle-of-life pattern, Knapp examines literary works from throughout the world and focuses primarily on women's experience in the twentieth century in order to gain some understanding of "the mysteries of the eternal feminine"