I seem to have been relentlessly researching esoteric subjects since I joined the local library at nine years of age. Has anyone bought the entire writings of Carl Gustav Jung in their teens? I read one book after the other and eventually came to the realisation, though I'd stopped reading his writings many years before, , that his entire oeuvre was, in the words of Auberon Waugh, 'a vast quaking swamp'. What can you expect from a man who was financially supported through his life by rich bored women with too much time on their hands?