Emma Jung
| Emma Jung | |
|---|---|
 Emma Jung ca. 1911 (age 29) | |
| Born |
Emma Rauschenbach 30 March 1882 Schaffhausen, Switzerland |
| Died |
27 November 1955 (aged 73) Zurich, Switzerland |
| Nationality | Swiss |
| Occupation | Psychoanalyst |
| Spouse(s) | Carl Jung (m. 1903–55) |
| Children | 5 |
Emma Jung (born Emma Rauschenbach; 30 March 1882 – 27 November 1955) was a Swiss Jungian analyst and author. She was the wife of Carl Gustav Jung, the prominent psychiatrist and founder of Analytical psychology.
Early life
Emma Rauschenbach was the daughter of a wealthy industrialist, the then owner of IWC Schaffhausen, Johannes Rauschenbach.[1] At the time of her marriage she was the second-richest heiress in Switzerland.[2][3]
Family life
Children
The couple married on 14 February 1903, seven years after they first met. Together they had five children (four daughters and one son); Agathe, Gret, Franz, Marianne and Helene.
Marriage
Emma Jung not only took a strong interest in her husband's work, but assisted him and became a noted analyst in her own right. She developed a particular focus on the Grail legend. Her independence of him in this field has been contested. She was also in regular correspondence of her own with Sigmund Freud. In 1906, Freud interpreted several of C.G. Jung's dreams of the period as portending the "failure of a marriage for money" (das Scheitern einer Geldheirat).
Husband's affairs
Around the birth of the couple's last child, in 1914, Jung is said to have begun a relationship with a young patient and trainee, Toni Wolff, which was to last for some decades. Shortly after the child's birth, Jung and Wolff set off for a 'vacation' in Ravenna. In her biography of Jung, Deirdre Bair describes Emma Jung as just tolerating it as her husband inserted Wolff into the household, but she was excluded from all meal times and evenings. For Jung, Wolff was "his other wife". Wolff tried to persuade Jung to divorce but this did not happen.
A former patient of Jung's and later a psychoanalyst, Sabina Spielrein, claimed to have been Jung's lover, keeping a diary to document the relationship.[4]
Death
Emma died in 1955, pre-deceasing Jung by almost 6 years. After her death from a recurrence of cancer, Jung carved a stone in her name, "She was the foundation of my house." He is also said to have wailed, "She was a queen! She was a queen!" ("Sie war eine Königin! Sie war eine Königin!") as he grieved for her. Her gravestone was inscribed: "Oh vase, sign of devotion and obedience."[5]
Bibliography
- Emma Jung (1985). Animus and Anima. Spring Publications. ISBN 978-0-88214-301-9.
- Emma Jung; Marie-Luise von Franz (1998). The Grail Legend. Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-00237-1.
Works about Emma Jung
- Imelda Gaudissart (2014). Love and Sacrifice: The Life of Emma Jung. Chiron Publications. ISBN 978-1-63051-086-2.
- Sidney Mullen (1982). C.G. Jung, Emma Jung and Toni Wolff: a collection of remembrances. Analytical Psychology Club of San Francisco.
- Elizabeth Clark-Stern (2010). Out of the Shadows: A Story of Toni Wolff and Emma Jung. Fisher King Press. ISBN 978-0-9813939-4-0.
- Lázaro Droznes (2015). Jung In Love. Unitexto. Digital Publishing. ISBN 978-1-63339-970-9.
References
- ↑ "C. G. JUNG: Experiences". IWC Schaffhausen. Retrieved 2015-09-07.
- ↑ Stevens, Anthony (2001). Jung: A Very Short Introduction. Oxford University. ISBN 9780191606687.
- ↑ Robert S. Boynton (January 11, 2004). New York Times http://www.nytimes.com/2004/01/11/books/in-the-jung-archives.html. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ 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-coated ladies").Bair, Deirdre (2003). Jung. Boston: Little, Brown. ISBN 0-316-07665-1.
- ↑ Hayman, Ronald (2001). A Life of Jung. New York: W.W. Norton. p. 431. ISBN 0-393-01967-5.
Further reading
- Jung, Emma (1985). Animus and Anima (Reprint ed.). Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN 0-882-14301-8.
External links
- (German) C. G. Jungs drei "Hauptfrauen"