Alice Thomas Ellis
THE book which has most impressed me this year is Anthony Storr's Churchill's Black Dog (Collins, £16), a collection of essays. He has a marvellous way of clari- fying seemingly obscure concepts and elu- cidating arguments. I always knew I could not get along with Freud and was temperamentally inclined to side with Jung, and now, having read Storr on Jung's Conception of Personality, I know precise- ly why. It is a great relief.
The other book which I have most enjoyed — and again because it enforces and encapsulates my own vaguely-held opinions — is Tom Davies's The Man of Lawlessness (Hodder & Stoughton, £12.95), which puts much of the blame for the present mould of evil in the world squarely where it belongs — on the media. These two books should be widely read as a guide to sanity.
So should my third book, Ronnie Knox Mawer's Tales of a Man Called Father (Souvenir Press, £12.95) because it is funny and true and describes a way of life and a type of man only recently departed, but gone none-the-less.
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