How Do We Ever Know What Is in Store for Us? Translating Jung’s Work into Persian

D. Steven Nouriani interviews Parvin Faramarzi, who has translated many of Jung’s well-known works, including Memories, Dreams, Reflections and several volumes from his Collected Works. In a dialogue across the globe, from San Francisco to Tehran, Nouriani discovers Faramarzi’s fascinating journey of fate, which brought her to Jung and transformed her life. As a young woman, Faramarzi was gripped by Jung’s writings and found herself compelled to translate Jung’s most complex writings even through the bombardments of Tehran during the bloody Iran-Iraq War. She found solace in Jung’s writings from the darkness of death, terror, and the violence of war all around her. In a mysterious journey, which she views as an inner calling from the depths, Faramarzi found a companion and a guide in Jung, with whom she had dialogues and active imagination when she was searching for guidance and wisdom. Nouriani is profoundly impressed with Faramarzi’s depth of understanding of Jung and her accurate translations of Jung’s most complex writings into Persian. Parvin Faramarzi’s Persian translations of Jung’s work are impeccable, invaluable to all Persian speakers around the globe, and a major contribution to the field of analytical psychology

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