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Thomas Fischer, Foundation of the Works of C.G. Jung, co-editor
Ann Lammers, Recollections editor of the English Edition
Susanne Eggenberger-Jung, Jung Family Archive and book contributor

Presentation time:

60 min

Emma Jung’s work on the Grail legend and the Animus and Anima has long been known in analytical psychology. However, until recently, how she trained to become an analyst and respected author in the field has only been visible in vague outlines. The literary and cinematic portrayals have shown her mainly in her role at the side of her famous husband. With the publication in 2024 of Dedicated to the Soul: The Writings and Drawings of Emma Jung, the Foundation of the Works of C.G. Jung, in collaboration with the Jung Family Archive and with the support of Recollections, LLC, was able for the first time to document Emma Jung’s early contributions to the development of the field of analytical psychology, and major steps in her own path to individuation. The editors and authors to this new volume will give insight into what impressed them most in their editorial work exploring Emma Jung’s personal background and role, based on her own psychological material, which she expressed in a multitude of forms, such as journal entries, poems, and texts, commentaries, and images reflecting her dreams and fantasies. Her psychological work is represented not only in substantial lectures but also in an elaborate personal cosmology, which she created during the most difficult years of her marriage. Dedicated to the Soul brings to the forefront what it meant to be the wife of one of the most unusual thinkers of his time, and what it took for Emma Jung, née Rauschenbach, to become a full personality in her own right.