Jolande Jacobi

Jolande Jacobi was the Hungarian-born Jungian analyst who, after fleeing Vienna for Zurich in 1938, became one of the central figures of the first generation of Jung’s close collaborators and the author of the most durable introductory text the Jungian movement has produced: The Psychology of C. G. Jung (1942, many later editions), written at Jung’s direct request and corrected under his supervision.

With Jung, C. A. Meier, and Liliane Frey-Rohn she was a principal founder of the C.G. Jung Institute of Zurich in 1948 — the institutional vessel through which the classical school of analytical psychology has been transmitted ever since. Her other major work, Complex / Archetype / Symbol in the Psychology of C. G. Jung (1959), provides the clearest single treatment of the three terms and their relation in Jung’s mature system. Her contribution to the Seba lineage is pedagogical: the architecture of Jung’s thought rendered transmissible without loss of the tradition’s depth. See complex, archetype, individuation.

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• carl-jung
• complex
• archetype