Emma Jung: Good wishes to our Golden wedding.
Jung, My Mother and I: The Analytical Diaries of Catharine Rush Cabot
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Dear Mrs. Cabot,
How very kind of you to send us such lovely carnations; they are of such beautiful colouring and arrived absolutely fresh.
Thank you very much for them and also for your good wishes to our Golden wedding.
How on earth did you know about it?
For we had told nobody, except of course the family and a few very close friends, so that we were greatly surprised when your telegram arrived.
As it seemed to come from Rome & I didn’t know your address, I am thanking you only now.
We were indeed quite touched by your affectionate thought.
Since the last weeks we have now finally some sunshine after a really awfully cold & sunless winter, and C.G. enjoys it quite particularly.
He is getting on very well now, fortunately.
I am well too, and just recovered from a light grippe, which I rather welcomed, as it gave me the opportunity to have a good rest, which I needed badly.
I always thought of old age as a quiet & restful way of living, but with me, there seems to be more & more work & demands from all sides.
The [Jung] Institute is partly responsible for this; on the whole I rather like it, though, for it keeps one alive.
But now we are all looking forward to the spring holiday, which begins next week.
I don’t know yet, whether we shall go away, it all depends on how “Uncle” feels – so far he didn’t think it would be a good idea, as he still felt so uncertain, as it [the weather] was still so very changeable.
We both are sending you our warmest greetings & hope you are being well too!
Very sincerely yours,
Emma Jung ~Emma Jung, Jung My Mother and I, Pages 564-565
Emma Jung Quotations
A gap for me that cannot be filled. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Page 317.
He [Jung] struggled with himself about telling her [Emma Jung] but he did so; she was quite undisturbed, and in a way relieved for ever since heroperation she had been preparing for death. ~E.A. Bennet, Meetings with Jung, Page 147
You see, he [Carl Jung] never took anything from me to give to Toni [Wolff] , but the more he gave her the more he seemed able to give me. ~Emma Jung, Jung: His Life and Work by Barbara Hannah, Page 119.
Since your visit I have been tormented by the idea that your relation with my husband is not altogether as it should be, and since it definitely ought not to be like this I want to try to do whatever is in my power. ~Emma Jung to S. Freud, Freud/Jung Letters Pages 452-3.
You were really annoyed by my letter, weren’t you? I was too, and now I am cured of my megalomania and am wondering why the devil the unconscious had to make you, of all people, the victim of this madness. ~Emma Jung to S. Freud, Freud/Jung Letters Pages 455-7.
Incidentally, America no longer has the same attraction for him [Carl] as before, and this has taken a stone from my heart. ~Emma Jung to S. Freud, Freud/Jung Letters, Page 303.
I would prefer to think that one should not dream at all, one should live. ~Emma Jung, Freud/Jung Letters, Page 456
In this way we could come to discuss many things which never came up in my analysis and I could understand your ideas from the foundation. Mona Lisa [Emma Jung] should be included too. Perhaps she knows all that is in it so well and understands it so completely that this would not appeal to her, but I thought it would he [Peter Baynes] asked me why it was such a problem with me about publishing the Red Book. ~Cary Baynes, Introduction 1925 Seminar, Page xiv
I hope very much that your wife [Emma Jung] will decide to publish the lectures about the Anima in book form. ~James Kirsch, Jung-Kirsch Letters, Page 189
The fatal illness of his wife Emma [Jung]-she died in November 1955 -marked the time when his life was nearing its end. ~Aniela Jaffe, Jung’s Last Years, Page 100.
“I shall always be grateful to Toni [Wolff] for doing for my husband what I or anyone else could not have done at a most critical time.” ~Emma Jung, Laurens Van Der Post Jung: The Story of our Time; Page 177.]
If I get another perfectly normal adult malingering as a sick patient I’ll have him certified! ~Carl Jung to Emma Jung. [Vincent Brome Biography]
“In all my eighty years, Barbara Hannah attested, I have never seen a marriage for which I felt such a spontaneous and profound respect. Emma Jung was a most remarkable woman, a sensation type who compensated and completed her husband in many respects.” – Barbara Hannah, Jung, Page 423
The close of her [Emma Jung]] life, the end, and what it made me realize, wrenched me violently out of myself. It cost me a great deal to regain my footing and contact with stone helped me. – Carl Jung, Jung by Gerhard Wehr, Page 425
Emma Jung’s life was one of uncommon richness and was one of fulfillment, because her faithfulness to her own nature coincided with her faithfulness to her husband and her profound understanding of his life’s work. ~Aniela Jaffe, Jung by Gerhard Wehr, Page 423
She [Emma Jung] was an immensely sensitive, shy, solicitous, circumspect, and introverted spirit. Yet she was as dauntless as she was enduring and delivered her meaning with great precision, erudition, and understanding. ~Laurens Van Der Post, Jung by Gerhard Wehr, Page 423
The Jungian analyst Barbara Hannah said flatly that Emma and Toni [Wolff], the mother figure and the hetaira figure, were the two fundamentally inseparable sides of a single problem. ~Gerhard Wehr, “Jung” by Gerhard Wehr, Page 189
What saved the situation was that there was no ‘lack of love’ in any of the three. Jung was able to give both his wife[Emma] and Toni [Wolff] a most satisfactory amount, and both women really loved him. Therefore, although for a long while they were at times most painfully jealous of each other, love always won out in the end and prevented any destructive action on either side. ~Barbara Hannah, “Jung” by Gerhard Wehr, Page 189-190
You see, he [Carl Jung] never took anything from me to give to Toni [Wolff], but the more he gave her the more he seemed able to give me. ~Emma Jung, Jung: His Life and Work by Barbara Hannah, Page 119.
Special mention may be made of a few letters scattered here and there in the collection from Emma Jung, who here also acted not only as the wife of her famous husband, but spoke for herself, standing on her own feet while at the same time taking sides with her spouse. With great maturity the young woman turned her attention to the problematic situation that. ~Carl Jung, “Jung” by Gerhard Wehr, Page 104
Think of Carl not with the feelings of a father but as one person does of another, who like you must follow his own law. ~Emma Jung to Sigmund Freud, “Jung” by Gerhard Wehr, Page 139
From time to time I am plagued by conflict as to how I can be noticed next to Carl; I find that I have no friends, but that everyone who comes to visit us really only wants to see Carl, aside from a few boring people who are totally uninteresting to me. Emma Jung, “Jung” by Gerhard Wehr, Page 140
Last night there was a tremendous amount of ceremony and fancy dress, with all sorts of red and black gowns and gold tasseled square caps. In a grand and festive assemblage I was appointed Doctor of Laws honoris causa and Freud likewise. Now I may place an L.L.D. after my name. Impressive, what? ~Carl Jung to Emma, Jung: A Biography by Gerhard Wehr, Page 123.
Journey Down a Rainbow, by Priestley and Jacquetta Hawkes, was the last book Emma Jung read before her death in 1955. William Schoenl – C.G. Jung-His Friendships with Mary Mellon & J.B. Priestley, Page xii
The tentative [Bollingen] list of publications, as it was headed, included twelve works. Four were by Jung, one by Emma Jung, and one by Toni Wolff: Jung’s Transformation Symbolism of the Mass, Two Essays (reprint), and, under the pseudonym Basilides, VII Sermones ad Mortuos, Emma Jung’s Grail, and-Mary also hoped-a book of essays from Toni Wolff. ~William Schoenl – C.G. Jung-His Friendships with Mary Mellon & J.B. Priestley, Page 23
