Labyrinths: Emma Jung, her marriage to Carl, and the early years of psychoanalysis
Biography, Science and medicine biography, Women biography
Human-narrated audio
Summary
Clever and ambitious, Emma Jung yearned to study the natural sciences at the University of Zurich. Engaged to the son of one of 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 that would threaten their marriage. Using letters, family interviews, and rich, never-before-published archival material, the author illuminates the Jungs' unorthodox marriage and explores how it shaped--and was shaped by--the scandalous new movement of psychoanalysis. Also reveals how Carl Jung could never have achieved what he did without Emma supporting him through his private torments. 2016.