The current quickening of interest in Carl Gustav Jung has produced
a number of books. This one, says its author - a now 80-year-old
Englishwoman - "claims only to be a biographical memoir, showing
his life as it appeared to me." On the MS being shown to Jung's
children, they "thoroughly disapproved," feeling that his Memories,
Dreams and Reflections met the need for a biography. Note also the
1975 book - not a biography - C. G. Jung: His Myth in Our Time by
Marie Louise von Franz, in whose understanding of his ideas, says
Miss Hannah, Jung had complete confidence. In her own book Miss
Hannah sets out to show "how Jung first lived his psychology and
later formulated in words what he had lived." She draws on her
journals, recollections of conversations with Jung, and her sharing
in the life of his professional household for many years, so that
her book runs to over 400 pages and is full of the kind of detail
that can be important in understanding so individual a figure. She
touches base frequently with Memories and deals at length with two
issues on which, she feels, circumstances have left her with
special knowledge. The first is Jung's attitude to the Nazis; her
completely convincing account leaves him with a clean record. And
second his relationship with his associate Toni Wolff; here her
apologia is less successful. The author may be more Jungian than
Jung but she always leaves the reader wanting to follow up her
pointers to his own writing. Her clear explanatory narrative can
serve as an introduction to Jung, and her sturdy account will also
draw aficionados. (Kirkus Reviews)
The psychoanalytic writings of Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) are
well-known and biographies of every hue have been published. But
what was Jung like in his workaday analytic sessions, and how did
he interact with his clients, colleagues and friends on a daily
basis? Catharine (Katy) Cabot, an American in Europe, was a patient
of Jung's and also a part of his Zurich circle from the 1930's
through the 1940's and she recorded the details of her sessions
with him along with other inner and outer events. "Onkel" (Uncle),
as Jung became to her, and his family and his friends, all were a
part of her life in those years.
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