Aniela Jaffé Libros

A collection of death, dreams, and ghost stories were gathered and presented to C.G. Jung and the author, who approaches this fascinating material from the depths of her analytic experience. ¦ among the Swiss, who are commonly regarded as stolid, unimaginative, rationalistic and materialistic, there are just as many ghost stories and suchlike as, say, in England or Ireland. Indeed, as I know from my own experience ... magic as practiced in the Middle Ages ... has by no means died out, but still flourishes today ... I can recommend it to all those who know how to value things that break through the monotony of daily life with salutary effects, (sometimes!) shaking our certitudes and lending wings to the imagination " from the Foreword by C.G. Jung. We are left in the overpowering presence of a great mystery. 9783856305802

Aniela Jeffé explores the subjective world of inner experience. In so doing, she follows the path of the pioneering Swiss psychologist C.G. Jung, whose collaborator and friend she was through the final decades of his life. Frau Jaffé shows that any search of meaning ultimately leads to the inner "mythical" realm and must be understood as a limited subjective attempt to answer the unanswerable. Any conclusion drawn from such a quest is one's very own - its formulation is one's own myth.

C. G. Jung, the father of analytical psychology, explored the realms of thought and intuition. He devoted many years to an in-depth study of alchemy and closely observed the range of the occult; he was interested in anthropology and in nuclear physics. He liked to consider himself a scientist. But was Jung a „mystic“? Aniela Jaffé, his editor, collaborator and confidante, addressed this question and others in her last book of essays.

Un científico, enfrentado a las desconcertantes fisonomías y dolores del alma, al final de su vida recapitula y pone orden no sólo en la memoria de los hechos vividos sino en el almacén de imágenes que el sueño proporciona a la conciencia. Gracias al empeño de Jung, la interpretación de los signos que envuelven nuestra vida será un ejercicio de veracidad imprescindible. En la primavera de 1957, cuando contaba 81 años, C. G. Jung emprendió el relato de su vida con la ayuda de su colega y amiga Aniela Jaffé. Pero en esta autobiografia las anécdotas se ponen al servicio exclusivo de su concepción del inconsciente y del hombre. No se recogen encuentros con otras celebridades ni se pronuncian discursos sobre el curso del mundo. En estas pagmas conoceremos los años de formación, su ambivalente relación con Freud, los viajes y los descubrimientos, y la gestación de una religiosidad que surge de la fuente de imágenes originales que Jung descubrió en el fondo del alma. Autobiografía interior de Jung en la que confluyen su perturbador testamento vital y la radiografía de su peripecia del espíritu: memorial analítico que por su propia naturaleza escapa a toda clasificación.

Aniela Jaffé presents thoughts and ruminations that Jung shared with her as they prepared Memories, Dreams, Reflections by C. G. Jung . These never-before-published revelations present a kaleidoscope of episodic, philosophical, humorous and enigmatic material, uniquely complementing and expanding on the widely acclaimed MDR . “Jung allowed his thoughts to flow freely during our conversations, according to the situation and his interests of the moment. When speaking with me he was not hindered by intellectual considerations of possible criticism. It didn’t concern him that his words and insights might require further thoughtful reflection before they could be deemed coherent or valid. If I managed to touch upon a point of interest, Jung did not just answer my question, but followed his train of thought further.” – 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?

Das Buch greift ein Thema auf, das seit jeher die Menschen beschäftigt und in Atem gehalten hat. Die immer wiederholte, jedoch nie mit Eindeutigkeit beantwortete Frage, ob es sich bei Geistererscheinungen um Täuschungen oder um unabhängig vom Menschen existierende Realitäten handle, steht hier allerdings nicht im Zentrum der Untersuchung. Diese gilt vielmehr der Bearbeitung eines Problems, das bisher noch nicht gesehen oder behandelt worden ist: erstmals wird die Frage nach dem archetypischen Charakter der Phänomene gestellt, und auf Grund der Psychologie C. G. Jungs werden bedeutsame Zusammenhänge zwischen Geistererscheinungen und den urtümlichen Bildern des sogenannten „kollektiven Unbewußten“ aufgezeigt. Zum Vergleich der Erlebnisse moderner Menschen werden alte Sagen, die Erfahrungen der Mystiker sowie die Phantasien der Alchemisten beigezogen. Aniela Jaffé war Analytikerin in Zürich und langjährige Mitarbeiterin C. G. Jungs. Als Herausgeberin von „Erinnerungen, Träume, Gedanken von C. G. Jung“ ist sie einem großen Leserpublikum bekannt geworden. Sie hat mit ihren zahlreichen Publikationen maßgeblich dazu beigetragen, daß seine Psychologie einem breiteren Kreis näher gebracht wurde.

Die zahlreichen phantastischen Figuren, Gestalten und Symbole, die der Dichter E. T. A. Hoffmann zu seiner berühmten Geschichte verwoben hat, werden durch Aniela Jaffé in überzeugender Deutung erschlossen.