Everything can be explained from this central point and all my works relate to this one theme.” p.206 “My life has been permeated and held together by one idea and one goal: namely to penetrate into the secret of the personality. Unlike most autobiographies this book is not a series of dates, events and people encountered but a fascinating look into Jung’s inner experiences, his dreams, visions and the experiences that shaped his understanding of the psyche. But Jung’s extraordinary intellectual life changed the world as we know it, leaving us with a psychology that helps individuals understand their own lives and provides a road map to living consciously. Jung described his life as being ordinary for his time and place he was schooled, forged a career, married, had children and traveled. In the spring of 1957, at the age of eighty-four, the Swiss psychologist and founder of analytical psychology (also known as Jungian psychology), Carl Gustav Jung, set out to tell his life’s story, embarking upon a series of conversations with his colleague and friend Aniela Jaffe, which he used as the basis for his autobiography, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (MDR).
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