Jung’s Life and Work: Interviews for Memories, Dreams, Reflections with Aniela Jaffe

*7.5 CEs are available for this study group. CE-seeking participants must apply separately for CEs here.

In 1957, at the age of eighty-one, C. G. Jung began a collaboration with his student and secretary Aniela Jaffe and the legendary publisher Kurt Wolf on a book about his life.  Memories, Dreams, Reflections would become a bestseller, yet it draws from less than half of Jaffe’s original interviews with Jung.  Much of these candid, wide-ranging conversations was left on the cutting room floor.  Jung’s Life and Work presents these interviews in their entirety for the first time.

Marking the 150^th anniversary of Jung’s birth, this new English translation captures the cadence and subtlety of the brilliant psychologist in his own words, giving voice to a thinker and teacher who is by turns witty and intellectually daring but also vulnerable and humbled by the world’s great mysteries.

This book study group will meet in 5 sessions (75 pages of reading before each session).

Required Reading

• Jung, C.G. & Jaffé, Aniela. Jung’s Life and Work: Interviews for Memories, Dreams, Reflections with Aniela Jaffé. Philemon Foundation (Amazon)

Learning objectives
By the end of this course, participants will:

1. Have an unedited look into Jung’s life and inner world.
2. Know the experiences that led to the formulation of Jung’s signature concepts of the collective unconscious, archetypes, anima and animus, shadow, realization of the self and wholeness.
3. Learn about Jung’s impression of Sigmund Freud, William James, Albert Einstein, H.G. Wells, etc.
4. Know Jung’s thoughts on Christianity & Buddhism and life after death.
5. Study the extra material that was omitted from Memories, Dreams and Reflections.

Instructors

Sheila Vaughn was first introduced to the Jung Society of St. Louis after moving here from New York City where she was a singer/songwriter.  She has benefited tremendously from personal psychotherapy, her participation in book discussions and presentations all offered through the society.  Having recently retired from a second career in adult education she is excited about expanding the outreach of the society so others may benefit from its offerings as she has.

Rick Vaughn has been in an intensive study of Jungian thought since 2011 including two years of analysis with a Jungian diplomate analyst.   He has been a video producer of more than 40 Jungian presentations and is a Jung Society of St. Louis Board member.  He is also a teacher of music video production for Lewis & Clark Community College in Godfrey, IL.