Psycho*yst and writer (1882-1955)

Emma Jung (born Emma Marie Rauschenbach, 30 March 1882 – 27 November 1955) was a Swiss Jungian *yst and author. She married Carl Jung, financing and helping him to become the prominent psychiatrist and founder of *ytical psychology, and together they had five children. She was his "intellectual editor" to the end of her life. After her death, Jung described her as "a Queen".

Contents

• 1 Early life
• 2 Family life
• 3 Death
• 4 Bibliography
  • 4.1 Works about Emma Jung
• 5 References
  • 5.1 Further reading
• 6 External links

Early life

Emma Rauschenbach was the daughter of a wealthy industrialist, Johannes Rauschenbach, the then owner of IWC Schaffhausen. At the time of her marriage she was the second-richest heiress in Switzerland.

Family life

Emma Rauschenbach first met C. G. Jung in 1896 when she was still a schoolgirl, through a connection of his mother. Jung reported at the time that he knew then that one day Emma would be his wife. The couple married on 14 February 1903, seven years later. They had five children (four daughters and one son): Agathe, Gret, Franz Karl, Marianne, and Helene.

Upon her father's death in 1905, Emma and her sister, together with their husbands, became owners of IWC Schaffhausen - the International Watch Company, manufacturers of luxury time-pieces. Emma's brother-in-law became the principal proprietor, but the Jungs remained shareholders in a thriving business that ensured the family's financial security for decades.

Emma Jung not only took a strong interest in her husband's work, but *isted him and became a noted *yst in her own right. She developed a particular focus on the Grail. She had a brief correspondence of her own with Sigmund Freud, during 1910–11. In 1906, Freud interpreted several of Jung's dreams of the period as portending the "failure of a marriage for money" (das Scheitern einer Geldheirat).

Death

Emma died in 1955, predeceasing Carl Jung by almost six years. After her death from a recurrence of cancer, he 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."

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

• Sidney Mullen (1982). C.G. Jung, Emma Jung and Toni Wolff: a collection of remembrances. *ytical Psychology Club of San Francisco. ISBN:9780961123208.
• 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.
• Imelda Gaudissart (2014). Love and Sacrifice: The Life of Emma Jung. Chiron Publications. ISBN:978-1-63051-086-2.
• Lázaro Droznes (2015). Jung in Love. Unitexto. Digital Publishing. ISBN:978-1-63339-970-9.
• Catrine Clay (2016). Labyrinths: Emma Jung, her Marriage to Carl and the early Years of Psycho*ysis. HarperCollins. ISBN:978-0-0075106-6-5. The book was featured as Book of the Week on BBC Radio 4 2–6 January 2017 in 5 episodes, read by Deborah Findlay and Henry Goodman.

References

Further reading

• Jung, Emma (1985). Animus and Anima (Reprint:ed.). Continuum International Publishing Group. ISBN:0-882-14301-8.

External links

• (in German) C. G. Jungs drei "Hauptfrauen" This is a private website run by a couple of psychologists in Erlangen, Germany. There is no way of knowing whether it has any accreditation or independent standing.

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• Int'l *oc. for *ytical Psychology
• Int'l *oc. for Jungian Studies
• Jungian Society for Scholarly Studies
• Philemon Foundation
• Psychology Club Zürich

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