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SHAMDASANI, S., FISCHER, T., McCARTNEY, H., & PECK, J. Jung's Life and Work: Interviews for Memories, Dreams, Reflections with Aniela Jaffé. Princeton University Press. 2025. Pp. 456. Hbk. $35/ £30.
Marking the 150th anniversary of Jung's birth, this volume publishes, for the first time, the complete interviews behind Memories, Dreams, Reflections. Conducted by Aniela Jaffé in 1957, when Jung was 81, the conversations reveal a more candid, wide-ranging, and self-reflective Jung than the edited memoir allowed. He discusses encounters with Freud, William James, and Einstein, as well as his visions, religious experiences, and the formation of his key ideas—the collective unconscious, archetypes, anima and animus, and the shadow. Edited and annotated by Sonu Shamdasani, the book restores omitted passages and includes unpublished letters, offering a vivid portrait of Jung's wit, humility, and creative discovery in the closing years of his life.
MARTIN, P. Will the Future Like You? Reflections on the Age of Hyper-Reinvention. Karnac Books. 2026. Pp. 160. Pbk. £19.99.
Drawing on a decade of research, Patricia Martin explores how digital life reshapes identity in what she calls the age of hyper-reinvention. Weaving psychology, memoir, and cultural commentary, she examines the psychic strains of perpetual connectivity—“persona fog”, chronic self-doubt, and the disorientation of cascading change. Through vivid personal and interview-based stories, Martin traces how individuals at these crossroads find resilience and recover a thread of self in an era of unceasing transformation. The result is a psychologically insightful and soulful portrait of what it means to stay human in a world of algorithmic attention and restless reinvention—a study as intimate as it is timely.