Beschreibung
Aniela Jaffé presents thoughts and ruminations that Jung shared with her as they prepared
. These never-before-published revelations present a kaleidoscope of episodic, philosophical, humorous and enigmatic material, uniquely complementing and expanding on the widely acclaimed
.
– Aniela Jaffé, from the Introduction
The historical commentary by Elena Fischli illuminates the biographical work with C.G. Jung on the basis of source material. How did the conversations and the notes of Aniela Jaffé come about? What was the nature of the relationship and collaboration between her and Jung? How did others deal with their work? And finally, who was this woman who was so candidly given such a glimpse into Jung’s inner life?
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Contents
Preface 1
Introduction 6
On Personality and Life Experience
Accepting What Life Presents Me With 13
Insight, Secrecy and Community 15
True Encounters 17
On My Mother’s Second Voice 20
Time Out Before Marriage: Paris and Oxford 23
Early Reading Experiences 27
Reminiscences of Bachofen, Burckhardt and the City of Basel 31
Transference, Willingness to Follow and Responsibility 36
Memories of the Young Einstein 41
On the Importance of Space in a Marriage 44
Languages 45
On Wholeness and the Limits of Language 48
On Toni Wolff 50
The Last Desperate Attempts of Aristocracy to Be Heard: Count Keyserling 53
Experiences at Yale and Harvard 58
Archaic and Uncouth Aspects of Antiquity 61
A Darkness Revealed 64
Seclusion, Solitude and Eternity 66
Thoughts on the Memoir Project 68
The Dream of the Abandoned House 86
Snake and Fish 92
The Call to Allah in Islam 95
On Experiencing Africa 97
Spirits in Kenya 101
Hauntings and Externalized Archetypal Energy 105
Father Hubertus Heals the Little Elephant of Circus Knie 110
The Witch and the Goat 112
Dream Images in Sickness and Convalescence 114
A Vision of Colors as Inspiration to Paint 116
Inner Music 117
Am I the Reincarnation of a Buddhist? 118
On Psychiatric and Analytical Practice
On Working with Patients Diagnosed with Schizophrenia 123
Recognition Through Empathy 127
On the Phenomenon of Suicide 129
Psychology and Experience 134
Emptiness and Intuition 136
Destruction and Evil in Illness 137
Relationship, Imago and Projection 139
Small Children and the Pleroma 142
The Individuation Process and the Christmas Tree 144
On the Here and the Beyond
Life After Death 149
An Existence in Psychic Images 150
“Thy dead shall live” 152
Dreams of a Post-Mortal Existence of My Mother 153
Dream of My Late Sister’s Wedding in the Hereafter 156
Two Dreams of a Deceased Friend 159
On the Idea of Rebirth as a Mythical Concept 161
Further Dreams About Toni Wolff and Emma Jung After Their Deaths 163
The Dead Appearing as Animals 166
Animals and the Fullness 168
The Afterlife and Sexuality 169
On an Indian Conception of Life After Death 172
Human Image, God Image, Worldview
God Revealed 177
On Our Conscious Knowledge 179
On the Unconsciousness of God 183
God and Humans 186
Incarnation 190
Doing What One Is Capable Of 193
Last Note, Three Weeks Before Jung’s Death 195
Historical Commentary by Elena Fischli
Introduction 197
“This monstrous Gordian knot of fatality, denseness, and aspirations.” 200
“A creative resonance which seems like a revelation of the feminine being” 214
“Find a way through the jungle of my memories” 250
“Entering into a collaborative relationship” 268
“I have therefore encouraged A.J. to contribute as much material as possible in order that the text remains her book.” 293
“In case of my incapacity, I entrusted her with the responsibility for the final version of the whole manuscript.” 316
“A biography of Jung written in the form of an autobiography” 326
“A manuscript came to be, small in size but great in impact” 344
List of Illustrations 374
Acknowledgments 375
Bibliography 376
