What gives a life its meaning? In this significant volume, one of C.G. Jung’s closest associates explores the world of subjective experience in dreams, fantasies and inner images in an illuminating examination of the phenomenon of meaning.
In so doing, she provides further insights into the signicance of Jung’s work. Aniela Jaffé maintains that any search for meaning ultimately leads into this inner“mythical” realm and must be understood as a limited subjective attempt to answer the unanswerable. Any answer must be one’s own, and its formulation one’s own myth.

Biografie: Aniela Jaffé (19031991) 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. Ihr Interesse galt nicht nur der Analytischen Psychologie, wie viele ihrer Bücher bezeugen, sondern auch der Literatur und Parapsychologie. Biography: One of the most distinguished interpreters of C.G. Jungs ideas today, Aniela Jaffé was born in Berlin and studied psychology at the University of Hamburg. With the outbreak of World War II, she emigrated to Zürich, where she later trained with the psychiatrist/analyst C.G. Jung. Frau Jaffés reputation as a lucid and authoritative writer has been substantiated through her collaboration with Jung on the biographical work, "Memories, Dreams, Reections", her editing of his collected "Letters", and numerous independent works, including The Myth of Meaning. She practiced as an analyst in Zürich until her death in 1991.