The Seba library treats Christiana Morgan in 6 passages, across 5 authors (including Tozzi, Chiara, Jung, C. G., Jung, C.G.).
Murray Stein the active imagination material of Christiana Morgan, an American woman who came for sessions in the 1920s and later returned to Boston, where, with Henry Murray, she created the Thematic Apperception Test (TAT).
This passage positions Morgan as one of Jung’s primary exemplars of active imagination, linking her clinical work with him directly to her later co-creation of the TAT with Henry Murray.
, Active Imagination in Theory, Practice and Training, 2017thesis
My dear Christiana Morgan, 28 December 1927 Don’t think you are forgotten… I think your technique has most marvellously improved. One of your pictures is almost exactly like one of St. Hildegard’s from the early 13th century.
Jung’s direct correspondence with Morgan reveals his genuine investment in her visionary paintings, comparing her imagery to that of St. Hildegard of Bingen and thereby locating her work within a lineage of specifically feminine mystical expression.
, Letters Volume 2, 1951-1961, 1975thesis
My dear Christiana Morgan, 28 December 1927 Don’t think you are forgotten… One of your pictures is almost exactly like one of St. Hildegard’s from the early 13th century—I just discovered it. (The one with a naked figure in the centre of the circle.) This seems to be specifically feminine.
A parallel edition of the same letter confirms Jung’s characterization of Morgan’s mandala imagery as representing a specifically feminine mode of symbolic expression, aligning her paintings with the archaic feminine spiritual tradition.
, Letters Volume 1: 1906-1950, 1973thesis
previous seminar, devoted to the analysis of the painted visions of an American woman, Christiana Morgan, had concluded only the previous March 21, having begun October 30, 1930.
This passage establishes the chronological and institutional frame of the Visions Seminars, confirming that Jung devoted a full academic-year seminar to the systematic analysis of Morgan’s painted visions immediately before turning to Nietzsche’s Zarathustra.
, Nietzsche’s Zarathustra: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1934-1939, 1988thesis
Douglas, C. (1993) Translate this Darkness: The life of Christiana Morgan (New York: Simon & Schuster).
The citation of Claire Douglas’s biography in a key bibliography on active imagination signals Morgan’s canonical status as a subject of sustained scholarly revisitation within the Jungian literature.
, Jung on Active Imagination, 1997supporting
I am indebted to the insightfulness and scholarship of Claire Douglas, ‘Christiana Morgan’s Visions Reconsidered,’ The San Francisco Institute Library Journal, 8, 1989, pp. 5–27.
Signell’s acknowledgment of Douglas’s revisionary article demonstrates that Morgan’s case continued to generate critical re-examination in feminist and clinical Jungian scholarship well beyond the original seminars.
, Wisdom of the Heart: Working with Womens Dreams, 1991supporting