The conflict between individual man and collective man Interests me - the individual humanistic value and the collective value. The collective value on its own always seems to me to be inferior to the individual value. When one goes hack to the beginning of the Western European Spirit, you see it labouring to produce a kind of individual who is capable of taking on a personal destiny and making what Is universal individual.'
In conversation with Derek Parker , the South African writer and traveller Laurens van der Post talks about his books, his philosophy, his friendship with Jung and his anxieties for the African people.
Producer JOHN KNIGHT