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Sharp, Daryl, Jung Lexicon: A Primer of Terms & Concepts, Toronto, ON: 
Inner City Books, 1991, ISBN 0-919123-48-1, 159 pp

You can’t tell the players without a program, and you can’t read Jung without a Lexicon. If you are like me, Jung at the best of times is heavy slogging; but when he uses terms that he defined fifty pages earlier, you may have forgotten what they meant. Having the Lexicon by your side can be very useful.

The Lexicon is a dictionary of terms used by Jung in his writings. The entries consist of some descriptions by Sharpe and direct quotes from The Collected Works of C.G. Jung. The entries are often quite lengthy, up to a couple of pages, and can be read as short articles on the subject. There are numerous cross references to related items.

I find, when I read material with many new and difficult words, I’ll make up my own list of words and their meanings that I can refer to. Sharpe has done this for us. Maybe with this little book’s help I might even tackle reading Jung’s Psychological Types (after I blow the dust off its cover).

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