Summary
Carl Gustav Jung: Memories, Dreams, Reflections
In his autobiography, which was created on the basis of dictated memories recorded by the student Aniela Jaffé, Jung presents memories of childhood, school and student days, his confrontation with the unconscious, numerous trips (North Africa, America, Kenya, India...), dreams and visions. The book mainly presents "the experience of a man for whom the psyche represented a deep reality". And to whom the external aspects of life were always secondary. "Only the spiritual essence of his life experience remained in his memory, and only that seemed worth telling," warned Jaffé in the preface.
In the chapter "Sigmund Freud" and "Confronting the Unconscious" the author included some excerpts from a seminar held in 1925. At that seminar, Jung spoke for the first time about his inner development. Jung describes his relationship with Freud and the reasons why their theories diverged. Jung's correspondence with Freud and letters to his wife Emma are added at the end of the book. Jung's work "Seven Sermons for the Dead", as well as an exhaustive dictionary of the most important terms.
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