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Labyrinths Summary ´ 108 Her father’s wealthy business colleagues Emma’s conventional and predictable life was upended when she met Carl Jung The son of a penniless pastor working as an assistant physician in an insane asylum Jung dazzled Emma with his intelligence confidence and good looks More important he offered her freedom from the confines of a traditional haute bourgeois life But Emma did not know that Jung’s charisma masked a dark interior fostered by a strange isolated childhood and the sexual abuse he’d suffered as a boy as well as a compulsive philandering tha. From BBC Radio 4 Book of the weekThe story of Emma Jung her marriage to Carl and the early years of psychoanalysisEmma Jung was clever ambitious and immensely wealthy one of the richest heiresses in Switzerland when she met and fell in love with Carl Jung a handsome but penniless medical student She was only 17 too young to understand Carl s complex personality or conceive of the dramas that lay aheadIt was a highly unconventional marriage with many labyrinthine twists and turns Emma was forced to fight with everything she had in order to come to terms with Carl s brilliant but complicated character and to keep her husband close to her His belief in polygamy led to many extra marital involvements with women he met when they became his patients A m nage a trois with a former patient Toni Wolff lasted some thirty years But the marriage endured and Emma realised her ambition to become a noted analyst in her own rightIn the first episode Carl meets Emma and breaks down her resistance to marriage a seduction by intellectReaders Deborah Findlay and Henry GoodmanWritten by Catrine ClayAbridged and produced by Elizabeth BurkeA Loftus production for BBC Radio 4httpwwwbbccoukprogrammesb082x79j

Labyrinths Summary ´ 108  A sensational eye opening account of Emma Jung’s complex marriage to Carl Gustav Jung and the hitherto unknown role she played in the early years of the psychoanalytic movementClever and ambitious Emma Jung yearned to study the natural sciences at the University of Zurich But the strict rules of proper Swiss society at the beginning of the twentieth century dictated that a woman of Emma’s stature one of the richest heiresses in Switzerland travel to Paris to finish her education to prepare for marriage to a suitable manEngaged to the son of one of. I like Jennifer Senior s take from the NYT Labyrinths was well received when published in England this summer Yet throughout the first half of the book no matter how much I suinted I could not discern why The subject is rich definitely and Jungian analysis has a groovy woo woo sort of appeal But Ms Clay s sourcing is thin She devotes pages of filler to the glorious architecture of Middle Europe sounding uncomfortably close to the sales pitch for a Viking River Cruise and to the menu at the Jungs wedding and to the wares of the Bahnhofstrasse and to the costume of the day It all seems a clumsy attempt at trompe l oeil to give the illusion of depth My l oeil wasn t tromped Hehe I agree Not all is executed well in this book but it was still interesting and reminded me of just how new and strange the ideas of early Freudian and Jungian psychoanalysis were to the European world In the end I was glad that I persevered through the elaborate scene setting and silliness There are repetitions and redundancies and the structure could have been tighter but by the end the cumulative effect was a vivid picture of the fascinating Emma Jung s excellent mind and generosity of spirit and Carl Jung s uh complicated personality and adherence to non monogamy

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Labyrinths Summary ´ 108 T would threaten their marriageUsing letters family interviews and rich never before published archival material Catrine Clay illuminates the Jungs’ unorthodox marriage and explores how it shaped and was shaped by the scandalous new movement of psychoanalysis Most important Clay reveals how Carl Jung could never have achieved what he did without Emma supporting him through his private torments The Emma that emerges in the pages of Labyrinths is a strong brilliant woman who with her husband’s encouragement becomes a successful analyst in her own right. More about Carl and Sigmund than Emma But an interesting lens at times