Emma Jung
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| Emma Jung | |
 Emma Jung ca. 1927 (age 45)
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| Born | Emma Rauschenbach March 30, 1882 Schaffhausen, Switzerland |
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| Died | November 27, 1955 (aged 73) Zürich, Switzerland |
| Nationality | Swiss |
| Occupation | Psychoanalyst |
| Known for | Analytical psychology |
Emma Jung (née Emma Rauschenbach, 30 March 1882 – 27 November 1955) was the wife of Carl Jung, the prominent psychiatrist and founder of Analytical psychology. She came from an old Swiss-German family of wealthy industrialists; that wealth later gave Carl Jung the financial freedom to pursue his own work and interests. They met when she was sixteen years old (some sources say fifteen) and he was twenty one. They were married on 14 February 1903 (Valentine's Day) seven years after they first met. Together they had five children: Agathe, Gret, Franz, Marianne and Helene.
In 1906, various of Carl Jung's unusual dreams of the period were interpreted by Freud as portending the "failure of a marriage for money" (das Scheitern einer Geldheirat).
Emma Jung took a strong interest in her husband's work and became a noted analyst in her own right. She developed a particular interest in the Grail legend. She was a psychoanalyst before they married, although her "independence" of him in this field is strongly contested.[citation needed] She was also in regular correspondence of her own with Sigmund Freud.
Sometime around the birth of her fifth and last child, in 1914, Carl Jung began a relationship with a young patient, Toni Wolff, that lasted for decades. Deirdre Bair, in her biography of Carl Jung, describes Emma Jung as bearing up nobly as her husband insisted that Toni Wolff become part of their household, saying Wolff was "his other wife". Wolff tried to persuade Carl Jung to divorce but this did not happen. A colleague, Sabina Spielrein, had earlier alleged that she had been Carl Jung's lover, and kept a diary to document the relationship. The truth of her allegations is unknown.[1]
When Emma died Carl Jung carved a stone in her name, "She was the foundation of my house." He is also said to have cried "She was a queen! She was a queen!" (Sie war eine Königin! Sie war eine Königin!) while mourning for her. The inscription Jung put on Emma's grave was "Oh vase, sign of devotion and obedience." [2]
- Quote:"The real thinking of woman is pre-eminently practical and applied. It is something we describe as sound common sense, and is usually directed to what is close at hand and personal. In general, it can be said that feminine mentality manifests an undeveloped, childlike, or primitive character; instead of the thirst for knowledge, curiosity; instead of judgment, prejudice; instead of thinking, imagination or dreaming; instead of will, wishing. Where a man takes up objective problems, a woman contents herself with solving riddles; where he battles for knowledge and understanding, she contents herself with faith or superstition, or else she makes assumptions."
[edit] Bibliography
- Animus and Anima
- The Grail Legend with Marie-Louise von Franz
[edit] References and further reading
- ^ Spielrein told her "wanton tale to anyone within earshot of [Jung]", and it became "common gossip among medical students who were happy to interpret it as an affair, even though there was no proof." One of Jung's biographers, Deirdre Bair, on the basis of diaries kept by other female devotees of Jung (the so-called "Zürichberg Pelzmäntel" or "fur-coat ladies"), thought it likely that the Spielrein affair and others had actually occurred. Bair, Deirdre (2003). Jung. Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN 0316076651} pages = 98, 108, 109, 181.
- ^ Hayman, Ronald (2001). A Life of Jung. New York: W.W. Norton. p. 431. ISBN 0393019675.
- Emma Jung. Animus and Anima. Continuum International Publishing Group. Reprint edition, 1985. ISBN 0-88214-301-8.
- Bair, Deirdre Jung: A Biography
[edit] External links
- (German) C. G. Jungs drei "Hauptfrauen"
