Jung, C. G. - Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Vintage, 1965)

T H 1 s B o o K had its inception during the Eranos Conference

held in Ascona in the summer of 1956. There the publisher Kurt

Wolff, in conversation with friends from Zurich, spoke of his

wish to have Pantheon Books of New York publish a biography

of Carl Gustav Jung. Dr. Jolande Jacobi, one of C. G. Jung's associates,

proposed that the office of biographer be entrusted

to me.

All of us were well aware that the task would by no means be

an easy one. Jung's distaste for exposing his personal life to the

public eye was well known. Indeed, he gave his consent only

after a long period of doubt and hesitation. But once he had

done so, he allotted to me an entire afternoon once a week for

our work together. Considering the press of his regular program

of work, and how easily he tired-for even then he was past

eighty-that was a great deal of time