Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
At a glance:
- Author: Carl Jung
- First Published: 1962
- Type of Work: Autobiography
- Time of Work: 1875-1961
- Setting: Switzerland, Austria, India, Italy, northern and eastern Africa, and the United States
- Principal Characters: Carl Gustav Jung, Sigmund Freud, Richard Wilhelm
- Genres: Nonfiction, Autobiography, Philosophy, Psychology
- Subjects: Memory, Psychology or psychologists, Doctors, Dreams, Visions, epiphanies, or revelations, Psychoanalysis or psychoanalysts
Form and Content
In 1955, the Swiss psychologist Carl Gustav Jung celebrated his eightieth birthday and published what he said would be his last book. The following year, his American publisher asked for an authorized biography or, better yet, an autobiography. After some discussion and much resistance on Jung’s part, it was decided that Aniela Jaffe, his student and secretary of many years, would spend one afternoon a week talking with him, would record his memories, and would edit them in the form of an autobiography, with Jung as the narrator. The weekly conversations...
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