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Now, i would have rated this book five stars for the the first three quarters of it. Unfortunately, in the last quarter, Morris West slips badly, unable to really tie the loose ends. thats a pity, for here there was material for a masterpiece, but Morris catholic consciousness get the best of him. He ends up moralising, unable to meet head on the fiery demons he has raised. By the way this is fiction about analytical psychology, being about Jung. Psychoanalyis is a term only applied to freudian therapy. Based about a short note about a nameless patient, cited in "Memoirs, Dreams, Reflection", the quasi-autobiography of Jung, Morris West fictionalizes about that therapy, showing a great mastery of Jungian knowledge, but lacking the final, superior understanding of Jungian thought.
A dark, unsettling tale, that will leave scars in those who read it.

Carl Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist, tormented by his internal conflicts and demons offered help to Magda Liliane Kardoss von Gamsfeld, a wealthy widow, to freed her demons in a doble psychotherapy session. Magda's revelations were hard to believe, its ran from sado-masochism relations and insest to murder.
A very well written novel that fascinated me as a reader with Madga's turbulent life and Mr. Jung reflections but what was not clear is the end of the novel, whatever happended after the admission of guilt and the recovery of Magda is very confussing and the moralizing end dissapointed me very much, I expected a more professional ending.

Morris West face the psycanalysis world building a novel on a real misterious letter by Karl Gustav Jung that talked about a woman named magda. I readed it in 5 hours. If you love Morris West you must to read it.