Memories, Dreams, Reflections
Condition: SECONDHAND
This is a secondhand book. The jacket image is a photograph of the exact copy we have in stock. This image shows the condition of this book. Further condition remarks are below.
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few books in the history of psychology carry the weight of lived genius that Memories, Dreams, Reflections does — an autobiography so intimate and searching that it reads less like a memoir and more like a direct transmission from one of the twentieth century's most formidable minds. Carl Gustav Jung chronicles his own inner life with the same rigorous curiosity he applied to his patients, tracing his psychological development from a strange, solitary Swiss childhood through his turbulent partnership with Sigmund Freud, and into the visionary depths of his own unconscious, where myths, symbols, and archetypes became the living architecture of the self. This is a work of profound intellectual and spiritual ambition, one that sits at the crossroads of science, mysticism, and philosophy. Jung presents his foundational concepts — the collective unconscious, individuation, and the shadow — not as abstract theory but as hard-won personal revelation, grounded in decades of clinical practice and relentless self-examination. His prose is measured yet luminous, capable of moving seamlessly from the analytical to the numinous. For anyone seeking to understand the origins of analytical psychology, or simply to witness a great mind wrestling honestly with the mystery of existence, this autobiography remains an essential and deeply rewarding encounter.
Author: C.G. Jung
Format: Paperback
Genre: Biography
Condition remarks:
Book: Good
Jacket: No dust jacket
Pages: Yellowed
Markings: Fair - Rubbed edges and bumping on spine and corners
Condition remarks: Condition as shown in image
Few books in the history of psychology carry the weight of lived genius that Memories, Dreams, Reflections does — an autobiography so intimate and searching that it reads less like a memoir and more like a direct transmission from one of the twentieth century's most formidable minds. Carl Gustav Jung chronicles his own inner life with the same rigorous curiosity he applied to his patients, tracing his psychological development from a strange, solitary Swiss childhood through his turbulent partnership with Sigmund Freud, and into the visionary depths of his own unconscious, where myths, symbols, and archetypes became the living architecture of the self. This is a work of profound intellectual and spiritual ambition, one that sits at the crossroads of science, mysticism, and philosophy. Jung presents his foundational concepts — the collective unconscious, individuation, and the shadow — not as abstract theory but as hard-won personal revelation, grounded in decades of clinical practice and relentless self-examination. His prose is measured yet luminous, capable of moving seamlessly from the analytical to the numinous. For anyone seeking to understand the origins of analytical psychology, or simply to witness a great mind wrestling honestly with the mystery of existence, this autobiography remains an essential and deeply rewarding encounter.