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The book seems to show an urgent desire to explain himself to the world, and to be understood at this late hour in his life — Jung was in his eighties when he started on the book. He wanted to convey his real intentions and to depict the conditions in and from which his work grew. This would tally with Jung's willingness in his later years to submit to newspaper interviews or have himself filmed — a last effort to break out of an isolation which at times seemed to him to threaten his whole work.

That this feeling of isolation was rooted in Jung's character becomes abundantly clear