Emma Jung

Emma Jung (née Rauschenbach, 1882–1955) was the Swiss analyst, theorist of the animus, and lifelong collaborator of C.G. Jung. Trained in the Zurich circle that formed around her husband’s practice, she was among the first generation of women analysts in the Jungian tradition and one of the principal contributors to the doctrine of the anima and animus that became, in the mature system, the theory of the contrasexual figures of the psyche.

Her best-known theoretical work is the long essay [[jung-emma-animus-anima|Animus and Anima]] (1957), which remains one of the clearest statements of the anima-animus pair as the representation of the unconscious contrasexual element. With Marie-Louise von Franz, she also worked on the project that became The Grail Legend (1960), the posthumous study of the Arthurian Grail cycle as an unfolding of the Western quest for the Self. Her role in the Zurich lineage is both clinical and structural: the analyst who held the practical weight of the early institute alongside her husband, the theorist whose writing on the animus gave the later tradition its working vocabulary, and the figure through whom the possibility of a Jungian practice carried by women — von Franz, Barbara Hannah, Jolande Jacobi — was institutionally secured.

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• carl-jung
• anima
• animus
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