The complete interviews that served as the basis for Jungs bestselling memoir Memories, Dreams, Reflections Features a significant amount of material withheld from the original book Newly translated and thoroughly annotated by world-renowned Jung expert Sonu Shamdasani
In 1957, at the age of eighty-one, C. G. Jung began a collaboration with his student and secretary Aniela Jaffé and the legendary publisher Kurt Wolff on a book about his life. Memories, Dreams, Reflections would become a bestseller, yet it draws from less than half of Jaffés original interviews with Jung. Much of the material from these candid, wide-ranging conversations was left on the cutting-room floor. Jungs Life and Work presents these interviews in their entirety for the first time.
Marking the 150th anniversary of Jungs birth, this new English translation captures the cadence and subtlety of the brilliant psychologist in his own words, giving voice to a thinker and teacher who is by turns witty and intellectually daring but also vulnerable and humbled by the worlds great mysteries. It restores numerous passages that were originally omitted or heavily edited and toned down for publication, auntified as Jung himself put it. Taken together, these talks reveal Jung actively discovering meaningful new connections in his lifes work. He shares his impressions of notable figures he encountered throughout his lifesuch as Sigmund Freud, William James, Albert Einstein, and H. G. Wellsand describes his striking visions, religious and paranormal experiences, and pioneering self-experimentation. Aided by Jaffés skillful questioning, Jung reflects on subjects ranging from Christianity and Buddhism and the fate of the West to the experiences that led to the formulation of his signature concepts of the collective unconscious, archetypes, anima and animus, and the shadow as well as on karma, the afterlife, and much more.
With an introduction and extensive annotations by acclaimed Jung scholar Sonu Shamdasani that provide invaluable historical perspective, Jungs Life and Work includes previously unpublished extracts from Jungs letters and a completely reorganized text.
