Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Memories, Dreams, Reflections (German: Erinnerungen, Träume, Gedanken) is a partially autobiographical book by Swiss psychologist Carl Jung and an associate, Aniela Jaffé.

[1] At first, Jung was reluctant to cooperate with Jaffé, but, because of his growing conviction of the work's importance, he became engrossed in the project and began writing some of the text himself.

In the introduction to the book Aniela Jaffé noted: "One morning he informed me that he wanted to set down his recollections of his childhood directly.

Jaffé was accused of practicing censorship when she began to exercise her Jung-appointed authority to reword some of his thoughts on Christianity, which she deemed to be too controversial.

[W]here the interviewer and the interviewee confine themselves to the strictly personal picture of a rich life, the reader may perceive a wide panoramic vision of a devoted student of the humanities ...[6]Historian Peter Gay comments in his Freud: A Life for Our Time (1988) that Memories, Dreams, Reflections is well-titled, given that it emphasizes dreams.

[9][10] On November 27, 2024, the foundation announced via social media Bluesky and X that Jung’s Life and Work: Interviews for Memories, Dreams, Reflections with Aniela Jaffé would be published in 2025 with an unconfirmed date.

It would be edited by Sonu Shamdasani, with Thomas Fischer as consulting editor, and translated by Heather McCartney and John Peck.