Aniela jaffe biography definition

Aniela Jaffé (February 20, – October 30, ) was a Swiss analyst who for many years was a co-worker of Carl Gustav Jung. She was the recorder and editor of Jung's semi-autobiographical book Memories, Dreams, Reflections.

Life

Jaffé was born on 20 February ^[1] to Jewish parents in Berlin, Germany, where she studied psychology at Hamburg, before fleeing the Nazis in the thirties to Switzerland.^[2] There she was analysed first by Liliane Frey and then by Jung, eventually becoming a Jungian analyst herself.^[3]

From to she served as secretary to the C.

G. Jung Institute in Zurich, before working as Jung's personal secretary from to She continued to provide analyses and dream interpretations into her eighties.^[4]

Controversy: Jung's autobiography

Controversy has developed over how responsible Jaffé actually was for Jung's late publication Memories, Dreams, Reflections.^[5] Current thinking would suggest that on