Series: ERIS gems

In this extraordinary 1959 interview, Carl Gustav Jung speaks with disarming lucidity about death, God, dreams, and the psyche's hidden depths. Reflecting on his break with Freud, his childhood visions, and the moral crises of the modern world, Jung issues a stark warning: that humanity's greatest threat lies within.

“From this period, the intimacy between the Families of Fitzroy, Drummond, and Falknor daily increased, till at length it grew to such a pitch, that they did not scruple to kick one another out of the window on the slightest provocation.” Jane Austen's juvenilia are widely admired both for their auguries of her future greatness and for the spirit of...

In Individualism and Conformism in the United States, Sartre probes the paradox at the heart of American identity: a culture that claims to exalt the self even as it channels that self into mass movements, uniform mores, and ideological frameworks. Drawing on travel, reportage, and philosophical reflection, he examines how the rhetoric of liberty masks the deeper pressures toward standardisation,...

In Just a Little One, Dorothy Parker distils a lifetime of wit, despair, and defiance into a single, unsteady cocktail-hour monologue. A woman, armed with charm and self-deprecation, insists she's "not really drinking", as her voice wavers between irony and heartbreak. Beneath the sparkling surface of repartee, Parker exposes the loneliness of modern urban life and the tragicomedy of self-awareness....