In Experiment in Depth, Percival William Martin explores the profound connections between psychology, literature, and history through the works of Carl Gustav Jung, T. S. Eliot, and Arnold Toynbee. This pioneering study examines how each thinker grappled with the challenges of modernity, the search for meaning, and the depths of the human psyche.
Martin traces Jung’s archetypal psychology, Eliot’s poetic vision of spiritual renewal, and Toynbee’s sweeping philosophy of history, showing how their insights converge in a shared quest to understand the forces shaping individual and collective life.
Part of the prestigious International Library of Psychology, this volume combines rigorous scholarship with accessible analysis, making it a landmark in interdisciplinary thought. For readers interested in depth psychology, modernist literature, and historical cycles, Experiment in Depth offers a compelling synthesis that remains relevant to contemporary debates about culture, identity, and human destiny.