The following is from the introduction to a book on Jung’s Aion lectures by Marie-Louise von Franz
“Two celebrations were held in his honor on his eightieth birthday. For the first occasion, invitations were sent to a carefully selected list of guests, all of whom were official representatives of his psychology. This was a rather stiff event, which tired him. To the evening party, however, anyone who wanted to see the great man was admitted: students, patients, Jung’s gardener, neighbors from Bollingen.
In short, a great variety of “important” and “unimportant” people came to offer their congratulations at this second party. The atmosphere was warmly human and animated, and Jung stayed longer than had been anticipated.
On the way home he said, ”Yes, those are the people who will carry on my work, single individuals who are suffering and seeking, and who try to take my ideas seriously in their own lives, not the ones who satisfy their vanity by preaching them to others.” ~Marie-Louise von Franz, C.G. Jung: His Myth in Our Time, Page 6.
