Word and Image

This richly illustrated record of Jung’s life and accomplishment, available for the first time in paperback, is an extraordinary collection of documents, photographs, artistic works, and unpublished letters and journal entries, linked by passages from Jung’s published writings and by an interpretive commentary written by Aniela Jaffé, his longtime secretary, colleague, and disciple.

Containing 205 illustrations (47 in colour, including 11 paintings by Jung himself, the book introduces the reader to Jung the man as well as to Jung the psychologist.

The volume was suggested and made possible by an exhibition marking Jung’s centenary, in 1975, organised by the City of Zurich, jointly with the C. G. Jung Institute and the Psychological Club of Zurich. It proceeds chronologically from Jung’s ancestry, through his early years and youthful interest in occultism, the Burghölzli Hospital phase, his comradeship with Freud, their visit to America and their break, leading to Jung’s encounter with the unconscious. Separate chapters treat the key interests of his mature years—the mandala, alchemy, Paracelsus, psychotherapy, the transference, home and family, travels, Eranos, the Tower, and religion-culminating in the final pages entitled Life and Death.