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Toastmasters Convention Hide This. Jung undertook the telling of his life story. On occasion, he was moved to write entire chapters of the book in his own hand, and he continued to w In the spring of , when he was eighty-one years old, C. On occasion, he was moved to write entire chapters of the book in his own hand, and he continued to work on the final stages of the manuscript until shortly before his death on June 6, Get A Copy. Paperback , Vintage Books Edition , pages. Published April by Vintage first published More Details Original Title. Carl Gustav Jung. Other Editions Friend Reviews.
To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. To ask other readers questions about Memories, Dreams, Reflections , please sign up. My copy starts on page 17 in the middle of a sentence: "adorned altar it was around Easter when I suddenly Is good old Carl Gustav really playing mind games with me from "page one"?
Anne Skyvington I still have my original copy that helped me through a personal trough in adolescence. Such a "big" and compassionate mind. He throws a shining light …more I still have my original copy that helped me through a personal trough in adolescence. He throws a shining light on the possibility of another way of seeing the universe and the self. His way overrides concerns of dogma, ego and pettiness that lead to war and everlasting conflict. He knew that resolution was always possible, even with two starkly polarised sides.
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Lists with This Book. Community Reviews. Showing Rating details. More filters. Sort order. Jul 07, Rowena rated it it was amazing Shelves: psychology , favorites. A friend recommended Jung to me when I began writing down my dreams some months ago and started noticing some patterns. I think this is a great introduction to Jung.
Jung takes us through his psychic life from a child to an old man, and explains how his experiences, his dreams and interpretations of dreams shaped his life and brought him to self-realization. It also goes into his doomed friendship with Freud, his interest in symbology, and his travels to India, Africa, New Mexico etc. This is one of the most fascinating books I have ever read. His dedication into his research and understanding is remarkable. This is a book I think everybody should read.
Reading it has definitely enriched my life. I am distressed, depressed, rapturous. I am all these things at once, and cannot add up the sum. View all 28 comments. Dec 18, Jon rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: anyone who thinks Reason is king. Shelves: favoriteclassics. I delved into this book, a Christmas present from a friend, to learn more about Jung's psychological concepts, namely the collective unconcious; the anima and animas; the shadow; mandalas; the Self.
About twenty pages in, though, I amended my purpose. See, Jung's narrative demonstrates a way to live one's life that I have often suspected might work well for me: minimize one's tendencies I delved into this book, a Christmas present from a friend, to learn more about Jung's psychological concepts, namely the collective unconcious; the anima and animas; the shadow; mandalas; the Self.
See, Jung's narrative demonstrates a way to live one's life that I have often suspected might work well for me: minimize one's tendencies toward rational thought and maximize one's reliance on rationality's opposite intuition, hunches, coincidences, God, the unconcious.
So, as I read Jung's repeated accounts of rushing into projects and life decisions based on dreams, visions, and other numinous experiences, including contact with ghosts, I realized that his willingness to engage "the unseen" was integral to his becoming the creative force he was. I am still sorting through the answers to my question. I will say that anyone who thinks that reason or intellectual conception provides the only valid basis for action in this world should take a close look at Jung's life and work. View all 3 comments.
May 22, Maxwell Purrington rated it it was amazing. Why Memories, Dreams and Reflections is meaningful for me. I shall begin by telling you of an event that occurred to me at college but which had its genesis four years earlier and the subsequent consequences of which remain to be completely known. One evening when I was 14 years old I went to bed much as I always had done. Sometime later after falling to sleep I awoke. To my astonishment at the foot of my bed and somewhat elevated into the air were two personages. An elderly man with the wrinkles Why Memories, Dreams and Reflections is meaningful for me.
An elderly man with the wrinkles in his face that bespoke of a life of both dignity and wisdom and alongside him an equally aged woman endowed with a face of gentle kindness. I took them to be husband and wife and decades later would come to name them Philemon and Bacchus. Upon seeing them I was immediately struck with two emotions. On the one hand I was enraptured by their appearance and on the other hand I was terrified as in my 14 years of life to my knowledge I only knew of two types of people who had visions: Prophets and Madmen.
I knew I was not a Prophet. As I gazed upon them it occurred to me that what I was witnessing may in fact be a dream albeit a most vivid dream. I determined to establish the means of proving whether this was a dream of a waking vision. There was a crayon on my night stand. I figured that when I woke up the following morning that if the mark was not there that I had been dreaming. On the other hand if the mark was on the wall I would know I had had a waking vision and hopefully the marking would prove a stimulus to recalling the episode.
The mark was on my wall upon finally waking. Jesus famously said that a Prophet is not recognized in his own home. Most assuredly I was not going to tell my family, relatives or friends of my vision fearing ridicule so I remained must as I sought the means of understanding what had happened. Insofar as I knew that Prophets had visions I determined that I would read the Bible which I had never read before to seek some understanding. I found an old King James Version of the Bible and set about reading it from cover to cover. Every word was read from Genesis straight through Revelations. This was an enlightening process however the Prophets seems to float above the common humanity within which I lived.
Briefly the move to college pressed the thought of my vision to the back of my mind. This would not last for long. I had been attending classes for about six weeks when one day I was passing through the upstairs area above the cafeteria when I spotted a young man in the crowd of students. He was dressed in Army fatigues and I was struck with the undeniable premonition that he was on campus to commit a mass murder. I fought against this sense and tried to fight against this idea as it seemed so irrational. I walked around outside of the campus for about an hour trying to shake off this premonition but without success.
This presented me with a moral dilemma. If I ignored the premonition and a murder did occurred I would bear some responsibility and be an accomplice of sorts. Should I not ignore the premonition what was I to do? Who would listen to me much less believe me? Suddenly the name of my History professor came to mind. I had never spoken to him before except to ask a couple of questions in class but I sensed that perhaps I could share my premonition with him and perhaps he would know what to do.
So being around noon time I went to the downstairs cafeteria where I thought he might be having lunch with fellow faculty and staff members. The cafeteria area was packed with nary a seat to be found. Well, except for the one lone empty seat next to my professor. Girding up my loins and with much trepidation I went and sat next to the professor. I introduced myself to him not certain that he would recall me from his History class and proceeded to tell him of my premonition.
Amazingly, I thought, without batting an eyelash he listened to my story and then asked me to go upstairs with him to point out the person who had struck me with such fear. I did. Then the professor went to the Administration Building and spoke with someone in security as well as the University President. I was not involved directly in what happened next but since the person in question had not actually done anything wrong yet not much of an official nature could be done but a background check was done and it was found that the person was returned from Vietnam and had a mental history.
Additionally photos taken of a civilian massacre in Vietnam were found and subsequently were used as the means of getting the person off campus and into a V. Hospital for mental treatment. I was quite gratified that my premonition proved valid. This gave me solace. I was also grateful to my professor because he did not publicize the event or in any way bring undo attention to me. As a matter of fact we never discussed the matter again.
This event brought back to the forefront the vision I had had four years earlier. It struck me one morning that if I could tell my professor of the premonition that perhaps I could entrust him with the Vision and the fear that had accompanied it. I went to his office and upon being invited in closed the door behind me and sat down and told him of my Vision. Upon completing my story my professor to told me to go to the library and check out a book entitled: Memories, Dreams and Reflections. I had never heard of Carl Jung before and knew nothing of his work but went to the library and checked out Memories, Dreams and Reflections and went to find a quiet place to read it.
In the beginning of the book Dr. Jung writes of his childhood and as a youngster how he had had a Vision and how it terrified him and how he felt he could not tell his family or friends of it. We bonded. I did not know Dr. This would ultimately lead into a lifelong passion to comprehend the structure and dynamics of the psyche.
View all 5 comments. Jul 09, Sohaib rated it it was amazing Shelves: psychology , autobiography , favorites , jungian-psychology , reads , understanding-jung. The loneliness began with the experiences of my early dreams, and reached its climax at the time I was working on the unconscious But loneliness is not necessarily inimical to companionship, for no one is more sensitive to companionship than the lonely man, and companionship thrives only when "Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from being unable to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible.
But loneliness is not necessarily inimical to companionship, for no one is more sensitive to companionship than the lonely man, and companionship thrives only when each individual remembers his individuality and does not identify himself with others. A complete bummer for people looking for action-driven and eventual narratives. Outward happenings are naturally compensated by a wonderful portrait of the inner world of Jung, from his earliest childhood dreams to his lonesome school days, student years, relationship with Freud, and finally, my favourite chapter, his encounter with the unconscious—the onslaught of fantasies he experienced in his twenties that ultimately led to his development of analytic psychology.
This book, all in all, keeps true to the title, focusing on inner phenomena rather than external events, as Jung tells us in the prologue. The one complaint I have against Jung is that he only briefly mentions his wife and kids. I wish Emma had put in the effort in writing a memoir of her own to fill this gap, though I can't help but think that it too would probably have left so much unsaid about their family—she was an introvert as well.
Jung is more vocal when it comes to his mother and father, and, according to Aniela Jaffe, this is the only book in which he talks personally about Christianity. Anyway, I loved this book for no better reason than seeing pieces of myself in it. Much of what Jung had experienced struck close to home for me. Memories, Dreams, Reflections is a must-read for anyone interested in Jungian psychology. I think reading Man and His Symbols and then this book would make the perfect introduction into the field.
Jun 01, Chrissie rated it liked it Shelves: travel , switzerland , deals , kenya , italy , sudan , read , philo-psychol , bio , india. This book is not an autobiography in the normal sense. We are given little information about family details. We are told in one sentence, "I have a wife and five children. At the end of the book are four appendixes, two of which are letters written to his wife when he was traveling in the US and then later in Africa. These letters are in fact special; they showed me the ordinary man, not the man espousing his theories.
They were delightfully creative and well This book is not an autobiography in the normal sense. They were delightfully creative and well written, but there are only a few and they are short. This book is instead about Carl Gustav Jung's - theories, his philosophy and how it developed. This book is the result of their collaboration. It was decided that he would write a few chapters about his youth, he felt an inner need to do this, but otherwise the book is based on their conversations which she recorded and edited.
A chapter entitled Later Thoughts concludes the book. Both this and the chapters on his youth have a different feel and I bet both were written by him. They are more abstruse. These were the hardest to comprehend, particularly in those parts where he speaks of religion. Nevertheless, having read the book, I do now have a better understanding of his philosophy.
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The book is very much an expression of Jung's views. He is telling us how he thinks. There is no debate. We hear neither her questions nor her thoughts. The book could have been tightened and at times better organized. Sometimes it is extremely wordy. Jung tells us that he disagreed with Freud's emphasis on sexuality.
Then later in the book we are old that Freud came to modify his view. How his view changed is not clarified, and this could have been mentioned the first time around. In the latter half of the book Jung travels to Africa and India and Italy. Some other places too. He states he wants to look at Europeans and himself from a different cultural perspective. He wants to look in from the outside. Here we go deeper into his views on myths and culture. Definitely interesting, but I cannot say I would necessarily draw the same conclusions. He tells us of a zillion dreams and what they mean.
These dreams are extremely detailed. Let me just state that his ability to recall such details pushes credibility. I had trouble accepting some of the conclusions drawn. On several occasions he explained dreams after time had passed and after other important events had occurred , claiming the dreams foresaw future events.
There is no proof in this. At points the mystical and paranormal theories espoused pushed credibility for me. Jung does not consider this book to be one of the set defining his philosophy. We are quite often referred to those books instead. The audiobook narration by James Cameron Stewart was absolutely excellent. It could not in any way have been improved. Simple to follow. All of the words are clear, and the speed with which it is read gives you time to think.
You need time to think when you read this book! Jung uses lots of terms that you have to get glued into your head if you are to follow his thought processes. I am glad I read the book. View all 22 comments. Nov 18, Ann M rated it it was amazing Shelves: nonfiction. This is an amazing book, from a truly amazing man. Memories Dreams Reflections tells a lot about how he came to some of these discoveries, his inspiration and how he nurtured it e.
He was truly unafraid, in a repressive time, to use whatever systems and methods, western or eastern, that would help. Sep 07, Corinne rated it really liked it Shelves: constructive , resilience , non-fiction , to-go-forward.
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A lucid and precise book, that is also easy to read. These points touched me the most: That Jung gives his internal experiences a much higher value than his external experiences. I wonder how long it took him to do that. That he could continue treating people without fear, even after his life was threatened so many times by crazy patients. I used to think this was a modern disease, but hell no! The difficulties Jung faced with Freud, and the courage he required to break away from him, yet not crit A lucid and precise book, that is also easy to read.
The difficulties Jung faced with Freud, and the courage he required to break away from him, yet not criticize nor undermine him. It taught me a valuable lesson. His trip to India, and how he used Yoga to sustain his work, and his scientific understanding of the spirituality from the East. It opened my eyes really.
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May 13, Nathanimal rated it really liked it Shelves: das-buch , psychology. I love Jung. I love him so much I bought the t-shirt. Seriously, for my birthday I got a t-shirt with Jung's big white face on it, and I wear it all the time. He looks pretty serious. I want people to know that Jung is watching them, so behave. Sometimes I wonder, Am I a Jungian? Not really. But I could be. Everytime I read Jung I feel a greater part of myself converted.
I do have a compulsive interest in dreams. Murakami's short stories do strike a chord with me. As skeptical as I am about every I love Jung. As skeptical as I am about everything I have to admit that in my heart I'm monk who yearns for a religion. I love Jung because: His psycho-gospel is a path of intense personal spirituality.
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It's an attitude of searching for and claiming a truth peculiar to oneself. It's a cry against the materialism of super-rational modernism. Meaninglessness, he says, is a mental illness. The alternative is a milieu of your own images and symbols and intuitive experiences, that while deeply subjective, serves to make the world a bigger place. Now how could an aspiring writer like me not sign up for that? The individuation process is basically what a novel does. The seriousness of his play. When Jung got stuck he drew mandalas and built sandcastles. He approached these playful activities with all seriousness of thought.
I admire anyone who "works out his own salvation with fear and trembling" by playing games, by trying on costumes, by making up stories. He considered himself a man of science. I have to laugh at that sometimes. Like when he says things such as, "Astrology is in the process of becoming a science," I have to wonder how scientific his science is. And yet he did shed his dogmas and he did seek to observe the psyche with all objectivity.
His psycho-gospel was born from those conclusions. And he was most certainly willing to sacrifice to the gods he discovered behind the curtain. When I think of that, all the rigor he applied the texts of dreams and fairy tales and alchemy and gnosticism and crazy-talk, it occurs to me that he may very well have dedicated his entire life to nonsense; and yet something inside me, rather than being turned off by that, says RIGHT ON! He loses me at times — he always does — but even when I don't find his conclusions compelling, he, as a character, always compels me.
I loved learning that he was a creepy child. I loved the first-hand account of his falling out with Freud. The prologue exudes a wisdom that I can't put a finger on and might function better as an epilogue. It presents, I think, a man reposed in a world of his own making. His world is huge and so he's free to move around it as he pleases.
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It's well lit too, so he's warm and sure footed and is able to see far ahead. View 1 comment. Mar 27, Deea rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: Are you in for a challenge? Shelves: favorites , psychology , best Mystics, Gnostics, alchemists, Buddhists, Taoists, philosophers and many others were preoccupied with understanding the mind better. Jung studied all of them by himself, read anything that he could put his hands on about myths, ancient religions, behavior of the primitives. At the time when he became a psychiatrist, nobody really understood much how mental conditions could be treated and they were not even trying to find ways to help the patients.
They were just diagnosing most people with mental conditions as suffering from schizophrenia and considered them freaks, putting them in secluded places so as to keep them from harming themselves or others. Jung regarded his work as a psychiatrist as a challenge, as a way to better understand himself and mind in general and he succeeded greatly at that, becoming a pioneer in treating these conditions through psychoanalysis.
Most of his theories are, even if some might not be regarded as entirely correct, really very interesting and intriguing and they are great food for thought. This book presents how he reached most of his conclusions and how they all presented to him in a way or another through dreams and visions.
His continuous struggles and victories to decipher them displayed vastly in this book made me realize how great and superior a mind he had. Its true life is invisible, hidden in the rhizome. The part that appears above ground lasts only a single summer. Then it withers away — an ephemeral apparition. When we think of the unending growth and decay of life and civilizations, we cannot escape the impression of absolute nullity. Yet I have never lost a sense of something that lives and endures underneath the eternal flux. What we see is the blossom, which passes.
The rhizome remains. Jung chiefly speaks here of inner experiences, being most certain that these and only these form the prima materia of his scientific work.
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He is sure that inner experiences also set their seal on the outward experiences that came his way and assumed importance for him in his youth or later on. He discovered the basis for his theory of persona the mask that we are wearing when interacting with others when he was in primary school, he became conscious of the concept of ego in himself at some point when he was seized with rage that someone had dared to insult him. Most of what he said seemed somehow familiar to me. I have, sometimes in the past, in one moment or another, felt the way he had felt and I was not able to reach a conclusion or put the feeling into words as well as he did.
Like the passage below, for instance: "I knew so little about myself, and the little was so contradictory that I could not with a good conscience reject any accusations. As a matter of fact I always had a guilty conscience and was aware of both actual and potential faults. For that reason I was particularly sensitive to reproofs, since all of them more or less struck home. Although I had not in reality done what I was accused of, I felt that I might have done it. I would even draw up a list of alibis in case I should be accused of something.
I felt positively relieved when I had actually done something wrong. Then, at least I knew what my guilty conscience was for. Naturally I compensated my inner insecurity by an outward show of security, or — to put it better — the defect compensated itself without the intervention of my will. I will however add this as a spoiler and the rest of the review as well as I feel that I cannot summarize the richness of his ideas in a short text and this review will become way too long if I do not do this.
It is up to you if you choose to read on or not. It was night in some unknown place, and I was making slow and painful headway against a mighty wind. Dense fog was flying along everywhere. I had my hands cupped around a tiny light which threatened to go out at any moment. Everything depended on my keeping this little light alive. Suddenly I had the feeling that something was coming up behind me. I looked back, and saw a gigantic black figure following me. But at the same moment I was conscious, in spite of my terror, that I must keep my little light going through night and wind, regardless of all dangers.
I knew, too, that this little light was my consciousness, the only light I have. My own understanding is the sole treasure I possess, and the greatest. Though infinitely small and fragile in comparison with the powers of darkness, it is still a light, my only light. It exerts a mighty suction which greedily draws everything living into itself; we can only escape from it — for a while — by pressing forward. The past is terribly real and present, and it catches everyone who cannot save his skin with a satisfactory answer.
There is a blockage and the unconscious speaks to us, tells us how to get out of the situation. While the psychiatrists of his time and how many of the psychiatrists today? A personality, a life history, a pattern of hopes and desires lie behind the psychosis.
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The fault is our if we do not understand them. He made me wonder what the Parable of Jov and the removed Book of Enoch from the Bible really meant and by reading interpretations on the Internet I stumbled upon some really interesting ideas about Summerians , what alchemy and gnosticism, religion and myths really were about. I ended reading this book with the clear idea: God, this man was a genius and it cannot be random that he arrived to such groundbreaking conclusions by analyzing his own mind and most of the theories that humankind developed through centuries.
As the Buddhists say, it is all in the mind and we are just not able to grasp this yet. He had the courage not to let his reason limit his struggles to make sense of the world. Reason sets the boundaries far too narrowly for us, and would have us accept only the known — and that too with limitations — and live in a known framework, just as if we were sure how far life actually extends.
View all 10 comments. Nov 21, Martha Love rated it it was amazing. If you only read one book that is written by Carl Jung, this is the book to read.