JANUARY 2026

Memories, Dreams, Reflections Reading Group

PART ONE

with Mark Saban, Ph.D.

8 Tuesdays
starting january 13, 2026

“The dream shows the inner truth and reality of the patient as it really is: not as I conjecture it to be, and not as he would like it to be, but as it is.”

― C.G. Jung,
Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Join analyst and author Mark Saban, Ph.D. for an in-depth of exploration of Jung’s classic biography Memories, Dreams, Reflections.

In the spring of 1957, when he was eighty-one years old, C. G. Jung undertook the telling of his life story. At regular intervals he had conversations with his colleague and friend Aniela Jaffé, and collaborated with her in the preparation of the text based on these talks. On occasion, he was moved to write entire chapters of the book in his own hand, and he continued to work on the final stages of the manuscript until shortly before his death on June 6, 1961.

Week One: Introduction, Prologue, Chapter I (First Years)

Week Two: Chapter II (School Years)

Week Three: Chapter II School Years)

Week Four: Chapter III (Student Years)

Week Five: Chapter IV (Psychiatric Activities)

Week Six: Chapter V (Sigmund Freud)

Week Seven: Chapter VI (Confrontation with the Unconscious)

Week Eight: Overview of chapters read and looking forward to chapters still to read.

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Memories, Dreams, Reflections Reading Group

PART ONE

Up to end of Chapter 6.
The rest of MDR will be explored in Part Two.

with Mark Saban, Ph.D.

8 Tuesdays
starting january 13, 2026

10am Pacific / 1 pm Eastern / 6pm UK time

Live Via Zoom +
Video Recording will be available to all guests

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“The essential thing is to differentiate oneself from these unconscious contents by personifying them, and at the same time to bring them into relationship with consciousness. That is the technique for stripping them of their power.”

― C.G. Jung,
Memories, Dreams, Reflections

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MARK SABAN, Ph.D

Mark Saban, Ph.D, is a practising Jungian analyst and author. Until recently, he was the Director of the M.A. in Jungian and Post-Jungian Studies in the Department of Psychosocial and Psychoanalytic Studies, University of Essex. Mark co-edited Analysis and Activism—Social and Political Contributions of Jungian Psychology (Routledge, 2016) and wrote Two Souls Alas: Jung’s Two Personalities and the Making of Analytical Psychology (Chiron, 2019), which won the International Association of Jungian Studies’ Best Book of 2019.