The personal story of Emma Jung's marriage to Carl Gustav Jung and her critical impact on the early years of the psychoanalytic movement. A sensational portrait of a highly unconventional woman, based on letters and other rich archive material - never before published. Emma Jung was clever and ambitious, and passionately in love with her husband. She fought with everything she had to keep him, in spite of his complex personality, profoundly affected by the sexual abuse he'd suffered as a child, and his many affairs with other women. Starting life as the innocent, naïve daughter of a wealthy, conventional Swiss bourgeois family, she emerges from the storms of her early marriage as a strong and highly unconventional woman, even accepting a ménage a trois, and actively pursuing a career of her own - a feminist before her time. Gold title - Catrine's book Trautmann's Journey - published by Yellow Jersey - told the story of Bert Trautmann, a famous 1950s Manchester United goalkeeper and his Hitler-Youth past. It was runner-up for the William Hill and won Sports Book of the Year in 2011. - Furious at the way his grandmother Emma had been portrayed in a recent Jung biography - also unsettled by her passive, long-suffering portrayal in 'A Dangerous Method' - the Jung descendants were finally persuaded to open the Jung archive with unprecedented access - to Catrine.
- This is a personal story woven into a period of European history. Volumes have been written about Carl Gustav Jung, but Emma's story remains unknown. If she features, it is the retiring, long suffering wife standing quietly in the shadows. The reality was so different that it throws new light on Jung and on the critical early years of the psychoanalytic movement. Catrine's portrait of Emma, her marriage and the highly unconventional woman she was will be based on letters and other rich archive material - never before seen outside of the Jung family. - Emma was an extraordinary woman who struggled heroically to make a fulfilling life for herself in a marriage, and within a society, determined to relegate her to the home/family/obedient though silently suffering wife position. The book will reveal more details than hitherto about Carl Jung's behaviour, how many affairs he actually had and with whom. - Comparison books: ZELDA (Zelda Fitzgerald) by Nancy Milford and NORA (about Nora Joyce) by Brenda Maddox.
Both classics.