“I met with him one evening after my lectures in London. We got into conversation about psychiatry and mental illnesses. I sketched out a typical case of paranoia for him, delusions of grandeur and so on. During the exchange, Wells fell completely silent.”

This short excerpt from Jung’s Life and Work reveals Jung’s lively and mischievous reflections on other prominent figures of the day. In the full excerpt in Harpers Magazine he paints a very colourful image of Thomas Mann and then goes on to comment about a meeting with HG Wells.

For over sixty years, Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1961/1963) has been the single most-read introduction to Jung’s life and thought, yet it was nevered from less than half of the actual interview material. Large sections were cut, re-written, or heavily softened (“auntified,” as Jung wryly called it) by editors who felt the aging psychologist’s candour about visions, the occult, religion, Freud, death, and the fate of civilisation was too provocative for the general public.

This new 2025 volume, meticulously edited and newly translated by Sonu Shamdasani, finally publishes the complete, unfiltered transcripts of Aniela Jaffé’s 1957–1959 conversations with Jung. Jung’s Life and Work: Interviews for Memories, Dreams, Reflections with Aniela Jaffé will be published on the 2nd of December 2025 in the US.