(P/B) MEMORIES, DREAMS, REFLECTIONS

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MEMORIES, DREAMS, REFLECTIONS
Until the end of his long life, Jung steadfastly refused to attempt the autobiography which his friends and disciples urged him to write and his admirers throughout the world hoped for from him. What he had to say, he maintained, was to be found in the twenty volumes of his professional writings: and in any event he did not believe that men were capable of recording the truth about themselves. However, in 1957 he agreed to provide his friend and assistant of many years' standing, Aniela Jaffe, with the necessary material and exercise a responsible supervision over what she wrote. Soon the task so fascinated him that he began doing the writing himself; and the manuscript as he left it on his death in 1961 is very largely from his own hand. This is entirely so of the earlier chapters where he describes the intense experiences of youth that led him to a career which gained him his enduring fame, and of the later chapters in which he makes known what he had never revealed before of his intimate experiences of the divine and his meditations upon the Incarnation, the Trinity and the other great Christian mysteries. But even the middle chapters, which describe his professional activities, the development of the Jungian psychology, his travels in search of insight into the minds of remote and primitive peoples, were carefully revised and often reworded by himself. The result is a unique memoir of the inner life of a great and original genius. (From the publisher)

'Jung's single-minded humility, his passion to unearth truth, is one of the loveliest impressions to emerge from this absorbing and many-sided book.'
(THE TIMES)
'He was on a giant scale ... he was a master physician of the soul in his insights, a profound sage in his conclusions. He is also one of Western Man's great liberators.'
(J. B. PRIESTLEY, SUNDAY TELEGRAPH)
'Can sometimes rise to the heights of a Blake or a Nietzsche or a Kierkegaard ... like any true prophet or artist he extended the range of the human imagination ... to be able to share Jungian emotions is surely an almost necessary capacity of the free mind.'
(PHILIP TOYNBEE, OBSERVER)