Carl Jung, Emma Jung and Toni Wolff
[Carl Jung, Emma Jung and Toni Wolff]
- Carl Jung’s view of “Love” and “Life”
“Not the power of the flesh, but of love, should be broken for the sake of life, since life stands above love.” ~Carl Jung, The Red Book, Page 327.
The beginning of all things is love, but the being of things is life. ~Carl Jung; The Red Book; Page 327.
- Carl Jung on Marriage:
A marriage is more likely to succeed if the woman follows her own star and remains conscious of her wholeness than if she constantly concerns herself with her husband’s star and his wholeness. ~ Carl Jung, Conversations with C.G. Jung, Page 51
- Emma Jung on Toni Wolff:
“I shall always be grateful to Toni 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.
- Toni Wolff on Emma Jung:
“You know, sometimes if a man’s wife is big enough to leap over the hurdle of self-pity, she may find that her supposed rival has even helped her marriage! his ‘other woman’ can sometimes help a man live out certain aspects of himself that his wife either can’t fulfill, or else doesn’t especially want to. As a result, some of the wife’s energies are now freed for her own creative interests and development, often with the result that the marriage not only survives, but emerges even stronger than before!” ~Toni Wolff, C. G. Jung, Emma Jung and Toni Wolff – A Collection of Remembrances, Pages 47-51.
- Carl Jung’s bas-relief stone monument to Toni Wolff:
Toni Wolff
Lotus
Nun
Mysterious”
- Carl Jung’s sculptured stone monument to Emma Jung:
Oh outstanding vessel of devotion and obedience!
To the ancestral spirits of my most beloved and faithful wife Emma Maria.
She completed her life and after her death she was lamented.
She went over to the secret of eternity in the year 1955.
Her age was 73.
- On Carl Jung, Emma Jung and Toni Wolff:
Fowler McCormick, a businessman and philanthropist from Chicago, was a close friend of the Jung family and he often told me in later years how deeply the Jung’s and Toni were respected in their own circle for keeping their personal problems to themselves.
Even the Jung children did not know of their father’s close relation to Toni until long after it began, even though they often saw her in their home.
He felt, and I would corroborate this impression, that as nearly as possible in our monogamous society, Jung found two wives in these women and so provides no model for the rest of us to follow.
It depended on a form of consciousness that totally transcended the ordinary worldly model-that of an important man who maintains a marriage and indulges himself on the side with a mistress. ~Memory of Toni Wolff by Joseph L. Henderson ~ C. G. Jung, Emma Jung and Toni Wolff – A Collection of Remembrances Pages 32-33.
- Barbara Hannah on Toni Wolff:
It might be said of her [Toni Wolff] that she was “Virgin” as defined for us by Esther Harding, meaning simply an unmarried woman who, since she belonged to no man, belonged to herself and to God in a special way.~ Sallie Nichols, ~C. G. Jung, Emma Jung and Toni Wolff – A Collection of Remembrances, Pages 47-51.
- Carl Jung, Toni Wolff, The Red Book:
He recalled that Toni Wolff had become drawn into the process in which he was involved, and was experiencing a similar stream of images. Jung found that he could discuss his experiences with her, but she was disorientated and in the same mess.
Likewise, his wife was unable to help him in this regard. Consequently; he noted, “that I was able to endure at all was a case of brute force.” [Red Book; Page 204; Footnote 118; MP; Page 174 and Footnote 119; Memories; Page 201]
- [Carl Jung on the death of Toni Wolff, the effect on his health and premonitory dreams]
To James Kirsch:
“Dear Colleague, Bollingen, 28 May 1953
At last I can find time to thank you personally for the kind letter you wrote to me on the occasion of the death of Toni Wolff.
On the day of her death, even before I had received the news, I suffered a relapse and had a bad attack of my tachycardia.
This has now subsided but it has left an arrhythmia which hampers my physical capacities very much.
I have ventured out to Bollingen over Whitsun and hope to recuperate a little more here.
Toni Wolff’s death was so sudden, so totally unexpected, that one could hardly realize her passing.
I had seen her only two days before.
Both of us completely unsuspecting.
The Hades dreams I had in the middle of February I related entirely to myself because nothing pointed to Toni Wolff.
Nobody who was close to her had any warning dreams, and in England, Germany and Zurich only people who knew her superficially.
At the beginning of my illness in Oct. 52 I dreamt of a huge black elephant that uprooted a tree. (meanwhile I have written a long essay on “The Philosophical Tree.”)
The uprooting of a tree can signify death.
Since then I have dreamt several times of elephants which I always had to treat warily.
Apparently they were engaged in road-building.” ~Carl Jung, Letters Volume II, Pages 117-118 [Excerpt.]
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- [ Carl Jung reflected further on this issue after the death of Toni Wolff in 1953 and Emma Jung in 1955.]
In the published version of Memories, Jung discussed the issue of reincarnation, and noted that:
“Until a few years ago I could not discover anything convincing in this respect, although I kept a sharp lookout for signs. Recently, however, I observed in myself a series of dreams which would seem to describe the process of reincarnation in a deceased person of my acquaintance.”
As ever, Jung’s discussions in the protocols were more candid: the person in question turns out to be Toni Wolff.
On September 23, 1957, Jung narrated a dream he had had of her to Aniela Jaffe.
In the dream, she had returned to life, as if there had been a type of misunderstanding that she had died, and she had returned to live a further part of her life. Aniela Jaffe asked Jung if he thought this could indicate a possible.. . who are the dead, and what does it mean to answer them?
Rebirth. Jung replied that with his wife he had a sense of a great detachment or distance. By contrast, he felt that Toni Wolff was close. Jaffé then asked him whether something that one has not completed in one life has to be continued in a next life.
Jung replied that his wife reached something that Toni Wolff didn’t reach and that rebirth would constitute a terrible increase of actuality for her.
He had the impression that Toni Wolff was nearer the earth, that she could manifest herself better to him, whilst his wife was on another level where he couldn’t reach her.
He concluded that Toni Wolff was in the neighborhood, that she was nearer the sphere of three dimensional existence, and hence had the chance to come into existence again,
He had the impression that for her a continuation of three dimensional existence would not be meaningless.
He felt that higher insight hindered the wish for re-embodiment. ~ ” Sonu Shamdasani. “‘The Boundless Expanse”: Jung’s Reflections on Death and Life” Quadrant 38.1 (2008).
- Laurens van der Post on Carl Jung, Emma Jung and Toni Wolff
What she [Toni Wolff] meant to Jung on that perilous journey van perhaps be summed best in something he told me towards the end of his life.
He was carving in stone, which had become his favorite visual medium, some sort of memorial of what Emma Jung and Toni Wolff had brought to his life.
One the stone for his wife he was cutting the Chinese symbols meaning: “She was the foundation of my house.”
One the stone intended for Toni Wolff, who had died first, he wanted to inscribe another Chinese character to the effect that she was the fragrance of the house.
This imagery of meaning of which this ancient Chinese ideogram is a direct visual expression is clearly saying thereby that she was the “scent,” which represents the faculty of intuition I have mentioned.
And finally and most conclusive of all, there is the testimony of Emma Jung herself, great spirit that she was.
Just before she died she told a friend of mine close to both herself and her husband, “I shall always be grateful to Toni for doing for my husband what I or anyone else could not have done for him at a most critical time. ~Laurens van der post, Jung and the Story of our Time, Page 177.
He [Jung] was only about forty at the time, but, as we know, his schoolfellows at the gymnasium had already called him “Father Abraham,” and I think anyone who knew them both well, and often saw them together, would agree that, while he seemed the prototype of the wise old man, she [Toni] had a quality of eternal youth. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 86
It was anything but easy at first for him to find a modus vivendi by which she [Toni] could give him her extraordinary gift—it would not be an exaggeration to call it her genius—for companionship in the “confrontation with the unconscious.” ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 86
As we saw in the preceding chapter, Toni Wolff was brought by her mother to Jung because of her depression, accentuated after the sudden death of her father. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 86
I do not know exactly how long the analysis lasted but I think about three years. It was followed by a period during which they [Carl & Toni] did not see each other at all. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 86
Jung had already realized her amazing gift, and now he found that his feeling for Toni added to rather than diminished his affection and devotion for his wife and family. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 86
The reality of his family and home were an absolute necessity to him [Jung], especially during this time of facing the unconscious, and we must remember that his problem of how to include Toni Wolff in his life fell within the same period It was most essential for me. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 86
To have a normal life in the real world as a counterpoise to that strange inner world. My family and my profession remained the base to which I could always return, assuring me that I was an actually existing, ordinary person. The unconscious contents could have driven me out of my wits . . . [but family and profession] were actualities which made demands on me and proved to me again and again that I really existed, that I was not a blank page whirling about in the winds of the spirit, like Nietzsche. Nietzsche had lost the ground under his feet because he possessed nothing more than the inner world of his thoughts—which incidentally possessed him more than he it.
He was uprooted and hovered above the earth, and therefore he succumbed to exaggeration and irreality. For me, such irreality was the quintessence of horror, for I aimed, after all, at this world and this life. No matter how deeply absorbed and how blown about I was, I always knew that everything I was experiencing was ultimately directed at this real life of mine. I meant to meet its obligations and fulfill its meanings. My watchword was Hic Rhodos, hic salta! Thus my family and my profession always remained a joyful reality, and a guarantee that I also had a normal existence. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 86
It seems hard that, just at the time he [Jung] was tried to the uttermost by his “confrontation with the unconscious,” Jung had also to deal with perhaps the most difficult problem a married man ever has to face: the fact that he can love his wife and another woman simultaneously. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 86
Jung also did not yet know that the anima frequently projects herself into a real woman and that this projection endows that woman with the whole numinous quality of the unconscious—yes, she even has the fascination of a goddess. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 86
We have already seen a first appearance of the anima, when Jung was still a boy, in the girl he met near Sachseln on his way back from visiting the hermitage of Niklaus von der Flüe. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 86
Toni Wolff was perhaps—of all the “anima types” I have ever known—the most fitted to carry the projection of this figure. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 87
She [Toni] was not beautiful in the strictly classical sense, but she could look far more than beautiful, more like a goddess than a mortal woman. She had an extraordinary genius for accompanying men—and some women too, in a different way—whose destiny it was to enter the unconscious. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 87
Indeed, she [Toni] learned of this gift through her relation to Jung, but she afterward showed the same gift when she became an analyst; in fact, it was her most valuable quality as an analyst. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 87
Many years afterward—during Jung’s long illness in 1944—she [Toni] asked me if I could teach her how to do active imagination, because she had never really done it at all! (I was amazed, for I knew she had helped many people with the method and as a rule it is quite impossible to do this unless one has already gone through the experience oneself.) ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 87
But I soon found out that not only had she [Toni] no ability to do active imagination, she had not the slightest wish (except for a dim feeling that she really ought to) to experience the unconscious at first hand. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 87
She [Toni] had no doubt whatever of its [Active Imagination] objective existence, but no inclination to go into it herself. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 87
She [Toni] could unhesitatingly accept whatever genuine experiences other people had there and give them the firmest support by her calm attitude toward the most irrational, even incredibly strange, phenomenon. I have never seen anyone else in the least like her in this respect, but then, people with a touch of genius are usually unique. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 87
During the time of separation [From Jung], Toni fell back into her original depression, not so badly, but unmistakably. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 87
Jung still hesitated to see more of her [Toni] outside analysis, however, for he knew how drawn he was to her and he was most reluctant to inflict any suffering on his wife and family. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 87
He [Jung] once told Marie-Louise von Franz and me that, curiously enough, it was his family that had given him the final impetus to seek a modus vivendi, whatever it might cost. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 87
He [Jung] told us that this fear had kept him awake a whole night, a night during which he slowly realized that if he refused to live the outside attraction [with Toni] that had come to him entirely from the unconscious against his will, he would inevitably ruin his daughters’ Eros. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 87
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 and Toni 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: His Life and His Work, Page 87
Emma Jung even said years later: “You see, he never took anything from me to give to Toni, but the more he gave her, the more he seemed able to give me.” ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 87
The desire somehow to destroy the marriage and marry the man herself. Toni told me once it had cost her more than anything in her life to learn that she must not give way to this almost universal feminine instinct. It was a characteristic of Toni to learn facts slowly—she was an intuitive type—but once she had learned them, she knew them forever and never wavered again. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 87
She [Toni] also realized later that Jung’s unswerving loyalty to his marriage gave her more than she could possibly have had without it. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 88
It was of the greatest possible help to Jung to have the companionship of Toni, with her unfailing sympathy and understanding, during the greater part of his “confrontation with the unconscious.” ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 88
He [Jung] said: “Either she did not love me and was indifferent concerning my fate, or she loved me—as she certainly did—and then it was nothing short of heroism. Such things stand forever, and I shall be grateful to her in all eternity.” ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 88
Later, Jung often experienced such phenomena (loud reports in the furniture, for example) as a pre-stage to a creative effort (usually they occurred before he realized what he was going to write). ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 88
It was at bottom the same incentive as that which had led him finally to face all the difficulties of his friendship with Toni Wolff: not to accept the promptings of the unconscious had a negative effect on his surroundings. ~Barbara Hannah, Jung: His Life and His Work, Page 89
As you say, Toni’s departure was a terrible blow and we miss her very much; it still seems not quite true.
I hope that your cure is not too strenuous & will be successful; it would be a good thing for me too!
With warmest greetings,
Yours very sincerely,
Emma Jung ~Emma Jung, Jung My Mother and I, Page 568
In the beginning there is the moon and the sun, feminine and masculine, yet the feminine contains the masculine.
The second sign is a vessel that contains the four functions, apparently the body which contains the psychic.
This is connected with what I told you yesterday about the masculine and the feminine and about the earth.
The third sign is difficult: a fishing rod and a fish.
The fishing rod is too big and the fish too small, so it can’t be caught.
The fourth is a scale that is unevenly loaded. The fifth contains the small scale tray, the other side is firmly bound to the earth.
The scale no longer moves. Both the lines below are the two fish, which aren’t too big, to be placed in the scale tray.
The sixth is again the moon, the feminine, which gives birth to three masculine stars that belong together. The two fish are raised up, and somehow hang together with the three small suns. The ..J means the end of the sentence.
Jung: But what in the world does this message mean and where does it come from?
Jung’s Soul: From the cosmic, i.e., from what is before birth and after death.
The Great Mother Night, which carries the sun in her body sends the message.
Reason enough to read it carefully.
The first sign is apparently the nocturnal Isis herself, who has taken the masculine into herself.
That was in the cards today, the ace of spades that fell to you. You stand in the sign of the feminine.
The second sign refers to you, i.e., the message turns to you and says in the 3rd sign that this fishing rod is too big for the fish.
The fish that you should catch is still somewhat beyond, also your balance is out of order.
You don’t stand wholly in the middle.
What can that relate to? First we’ll look further.
The balance should be fashioned in a way that one side of the scale, the right, consciousness, should connect with the earth.
That can relate only to your wife, who can give you strength.
The other side is Toni. She apparently has the calling to receive the two fish.
What does that mean? It seems she has the instruction of the Great Mother about this.
In this sense she should be observed, also her dreams. But probably she must be kept hovering, perhaps in the sense that I spoke to you yesterday.
The Great Mother then promises the birth of the 3 small suns or heavenly bodies and the two fish between.
The 2 fish relate to the Christian and the Antichristian, which in the meaning of the future follow the three suns, which are related to the new religion.
The sun is the masculine positive, the illuminator.
A triumvirate, you, Emma, and Toni, the symbolic bearers, the Egyptian symbol, indicated in the word “FANDRAGYPTI,” pheasant of the Egyptians, Isis, Osiris, Nephthys. Nephthys-Toni therefore receives both the fish, i.e., the night or unconscious side.
Both the fish fertilize the mother and cause the birth, the Christian-Antichristian follows behind as the afterbirth. This prediction is good. You can calm down. ~Jung Soul, The Black Books, Vol. VII, Page 215
The two fish appear to be related to the astrological sign of Pisces.
In Aion, Jung studied the astrological symbolism of the precession of the equinoxes between the Ages of Pisces and Aquarius, as noted above, and the relation of this to the figures of Christ and the Antichrist.
He wrote:
“the designation of Christ as the one fish identifies him in the astrological interpretation with the first vertical one. Christ is followed at the end of time by the Antichrist.
The beginning of the enantiodromia must fall, logically, between the two fishes.
We have seen that this is so. The time of the Renaissance begins in the immediate vicinity of the second fish, and with it comes that spirit which culminates in the modern age” (§ 149 ).
At a psychological level, he noted,
“If we see the traditional figure of Christ as a parallel to the psychic manifestation of the self, then the Antichrist would correspond to the shadow of the self, namely the dark half of human totality” (§ 76) .
He added that symbolically,
“the coming of the Antichrist is not just a prophetic prediction- but an unrelenting psychological law …. The ideal of spiritually striving for the heights was doomed to clash with the materialistic earth-bound passion to conquer matter and master the world. This change became visible at the time of the ‘Renaissance'” (§§ 77- 78). ~The Black Books, Vol. VII, Page 215, fn 179
Emma Jung
Shortly before her death in 1955, Emma Jung referred to this support, saying: “I will always be grateful to Toni for doing for my husband what neither I nor anyone else could have done for him at a most critical time.” From: Van der Post, L., 1976, p. 178. Dieter Baumann, a grandson of C.G. ~ Aniela Jaffe, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 52, fn 5
As Emma Jung was also involved in the correspondence and had exchanged letters with Freud, the couple discussed the matter and together decided that the letters did have a certain historical value. In Jung’s opinion, however, their contents were “not significant.” ~Elena Fischli, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 203
Annoyed, she [Cary Baynes] approached Jung’s wife Emma, whereupon Jung promptly addressed the situation personally. He was under the impression that the biography project had been her idea, he told her, and therefore expected that she would wish to contribute. Although convinced that Lucy Heyer-Grote was the right person for the overall project, he had insisted from the start on Baynes’ involvement due to the valuable alternative perspective she would bring. ~Elena Fischli, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 206
Jung’s doubts likely did not diminish when his wife was diagnosed with cancer in the late summer of 1954, leading to an operation and subsequent radiotherapy. Emma and C.G. Jung were clearly very worried and initially kept these events to themselves, not even telling their own children. ~Elena Fischli, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 209-210
Emma Jung (who was also involved in some of the biographical conversations) had promised to make her own correspondence with Freud available to Heyer-Grote, but then neglected to do so, without explanation. ~Elena Fischli, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 211
At the beginning of 1955, Emma Jung was hospitalized again. Her serious illness, Jung wrote, was consuming all of his spare time. ~Elena Fischli, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 212
Emma Jung was a member of the small editorial committee and also one of the authors, along with Aniela Jaffe. Impressed by Jaffe’s intellectual abilities and sensitivity, in late 1954, Emma Jung asked her younger colleague to lend editorial support to the project when her own capacities became limited due to illness. ~Elena Fischli, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 216
Emma Jung, keen to relieve the burden on her husband and Trusting Jaffe’s competence and character, pushed for Jaffe to transfer from the Institute to Jung’s home office in Kusnacht. ~Elena Fischli, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 216
In October, Emma Jung asked Aniela Jaffe, who by then had been working as Jung’s private secretary for several months, to join the editorial team of the Collected Works. In view of her already heavy workload, Jaffe turned down the request. ~Elena Fischli, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 217
It was later a source of considerable regret for Jaffe that she had turned down one of Emma Jung’s last requests. Despite her initial refusal, Jaffe subsequently gave unstinting practical and intellectual support to the preparation of the Collected Works, as well as being one of the main points of contact with the Bollingen Foundation. ~Elena Fischli, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 217
It also fell to Jaffe, in early October 1955, to inform Kurt Eissler, secretary of the Freud Archive, that C.G. and Emma Jung would not agree to publication of the letters at that time. ~Elena Fischli, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 217
Later in the year, Jung suffered another great loss: on November 27, 1955, his wife Emma died. With her passing and the death of Toni Wolff in 1953, Jung had lost his two most significant female companions within the space of less than three years. ~Elena Fischli, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 218
Well aware of the privileged nature of the position of private secretary, Jaffe was unwilling to accept this new position unless Emma Jung was agreeable to her being so present in the house. Only after Jung assured her that his wife had been the one to suggest her for the role did Jaffe agree. ~Elena Fischli, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 247
While Jaffe years later spoke of Toni Wolff with reserved respect, she was much less restrained regarding Emma: she adored her. Emma Jung was evidently also taken by Jaffe’ sway of being and her competence. ~Elena Fischli, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 247
While Jaffe years later spoke of Toni Wolff with reserved respect, she was much less restrained regarding Emma: she adored her. Emma Jung was evidently also taken by Jaffe’ sway of being and her competence. ~Elena Fischli, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 247
It should be remembered that these conversations took place during the last years of Jung’s life; his wife Emma Jung and his companion of many years Toni Wolff had died not long before, and he himself was at the threshold of death. ~Robert Hinshaw, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 7
Jung’s doubts likely did not diminish when his wife was diagnosed with cancer in the late summer of 1954, leading to an operation and subsequent radiotherapy. Emma and C.G. Jung were clearly very worried and initially kept these events to themselves, not even telling their own children. ~Elena Fischli, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 209-210
Well aware of the privileged nature of the position of private secretary, Jaffe was unwilling to accept this new position unless Emma Jung was agreeable to her being so present in the house. Only after Jung assured her that his wife had been the one to suggest her for the role did Jaffe agree. ~Elena Fischli, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 247
Toni Wolff
But even in analytical psychology circles there was anti-Semitic discrimination during the war years: in 1943 Toni Wolff informed Jaffe that her membership of the Psychology Club had been refused, allegedly to “protect” C.G. Jung from possible German sanctions. An outraged Jung subsequently campaigned energetically on Jaffe’s behalf threatening his resignation from the Club if she were not to be accepted. ~Aniela Jaffe, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 241
The following comments came a short time after Jung had told me how Freud had exhorted him – like father to son – to uphold the latter’s theory of sexuality; Jung, however, had very early on fostered his own ideas which deviated from Freud’s. Just before this conversation, Jung had looked through a collection of essays written by Toni Wolff and sent them to the publisher Daniel Brody, including the two articles “The Individuation Process in Women” and “Structural Forms of the Feminine Psyche.” He had also recently received some letters and publications dealing with the topic of nationality. ~Aniela Jaffe, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 36
I dreamed that Toni came back. Her death had only occurred due to a sort of mix-up – as if she had died through some misunderstanding. And so now she was here again, in order to somehow live a further part of her life. I can only understand this dream figure as the anima. ~Carl Jung, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 161
With my wife I have the feeling of a much greater detachment or distance than with Toni Wolff. With Toni I have noticed that she still seems to be nearby. My wife has attained something that Toni has not. ~Carl Jung, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 161
I have always had the conscious and distinct impression that Toni is still closer to earth, which is why she manifests herself to me more easily than my wife. My wife is as if on another level, beyond my reach. Toni seems to me to be close enough that one could possibly reach her. She seems to have remained much closer to the sphere of our three-dimensional existence and would thus have the opportunity to slip back in – at any rate, this was the conclusion I drew from my dreams. ~Carl Jung, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 162
With her [Toni], I feel strongly, or even know, that she has not reached a state in which a continuation of three-dimensional life would no longer make sense – on the presupposition that certain stages of insights would liberate us from the urge to return to earth. ~Carl Jung, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 162
If one believes in the possibility of reincarnation, the idea logically follows that those people who are reincarnated did not complete something in their life that they were meant to do. That was very impressive for me with Toni. Basically her natural tendency was to be very down-to-earth. But for all her great humanity, she became very intellectual. Her manner was often forced and unnatural. I saw dearly how she resisted her own character, her own earthy nature. ~Carl Jung, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 163
If there is a possibility of reincarnation, then in Toni’s case it would be in order for her to be more in an earthly here and now, and closer to nature. And that was evident in my dreams about her after her death. ~Carl Jung, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 163
With my wife, this step was not emphasized at all: she seemed to be developing further along the spiritual path. I had the feeling my wife was in a spiritual realm, while Toni was in a chthonic world.
No one ever told me that my wife had appeared in their dreams. Even with me, she did not appear again – except as an image she presented to me. But here I did not feel that she was really present. ~Carl Jung, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 163
When it began to get dark, the little bird came into the courtyard and perched on the pile of dry sticks. Hans knew it was the anniversary of Toni Wolff’s death and asked if the robin might not be her soul? I had already noticed his reaction and the same thought had also crossed my mind. ~Carl Jung, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, 167
For me, the image that my wife is now in the South of France working on the Grail legend is very calming. Or that my late friend Oeri is being taught by his daughter about psychology. Or that Toni Wolff, colored by the sun, is vigorously and happily tilling the land in Umbria. ~Carl Jung, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, 170
In the years 1930 to 1932, Lucy Heyer-Grote underwent analysis, primarily with Toni Wolff, but also with Jung and with Eva Moritz, chair of the C.G. Jung Society in Berlin. During the thirties, her reviews of several of C.G. Jung’s works appeared in German newspapers and journals. ~Elena Fischli, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 204
Although he seldom spoke of it, the unexpected death of Toni Wolff in March, 1953, affected him greatly. He tried to continue cooperating on the biography, but along with his reservations about the project itself he felt growing self-doubt. ~Elena Fischli, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 208
Later in the year, Jung suffered another great loss: on November 27, 1955, his wife Emma died. With her passing and the death of Toni Wolff in 1953, Jung had lost his two most significant female companions within the space of less than three years. ~Elena Fischli, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 218
While Jaffe years later spoke of Toni Wolff with reserved respect, she was much less restrained regarding Emma: she adored her.
Emma Jung was evidently also taken by Jaffe’ sway of being and her competence. ~Elena Fischli, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 247
Of course Jung also talked to me about Toni Wolff. But before we began work on the book he had written to me that he did not want to have anything personal about his private relationships in it. ~Elena Fischli, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 257
It should be remembered that these conversations took place during the last years of Jung’s life; his wife Emma Jung and his companion of many years Toni Wolff had died not long before, and he himself was at the threshold of death. ~Robert Hinshaw, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 7
He [Jung] told of dreams that persuaded him to initiate the relationship, and of others after Toni Wolff’s death which seemed to indicate a postmortem development. ~Aniela Jaffe, Reflections on the Life and Dreams of C.G. Jung, Page 8