ABSTRACT
Mark Saban reads Memories, Dreams, Reflections with the same openness that one brings to a big dream or an active imagination. He captures the enthusiasm Jung brought to rediscovering, remembering, and mythologizing the most important moments of his life, while also noting Jung’s ambivalence toward the “so-called autobiography”, which Saban relates to a parallel tendency in Jung’s psychology to undermine the univocality of the self. He suggests that the importance of this posthumously published text, which stands outside Jung’s official body of writing, derives from Jung’s willingness to reconfigure in this book the deeper meanings and ambiguities of his life’s work.
