Toni Wolff Biography
Antonia Wolff (1888-1953)
Anna Antonia (Toni) Wolff was a representative of Analytical Psychology, founded the CG Jung after his break with Sigmund Freud 1913th
She was born in Zurich was the first of three daughters of a wealthy businessman Arnold Konrad Wolff and his wife Anna Elisabetha Sutz.
Her family belonged to the Swiss Reformed Church and was one of the oldest and most respected in Zurich. After visiting the Lyceum wrote Toni Wolff in as an auditor at the University of Zurich and heard a number of years of religion, philosophy and mythology.
When she fell after the death of her beloved father in 1909 in depression, her mother sent her for treatment of CG Jung .
This analytical discovered her talent and took them to the IPA Congress in 1911 in Weimar.
Throughout her analysis, which lasted until 1919, developed a love relationship between Toni Wolff and CG Jung. She became his student, assistant and official “second wife” next to Emma Jung .
In the early 1930s, not as Toni Wolff to the chagrin of his interest in alchemy, Jung said, there was an estrangement between them, which intensified after his heart attack in 1944, in the wake of intensified boys relationship with his wife.
Toni Wolff was 1916 in Zurich, one of the founding members of the Psychology Club, the association of the followers of CG Jung’s Analytical Psychology. From 1928 to 1945, she was standing outside the club as president and was then club secretary and later honorary president.
Toni Wolff published in Jung’s complex psychology launches next – she moved to the front of this expression of Analytical Psychology – a work on the psychology of women on the basis of Jungian typology. Under their participation Jung coined the terms “animus” and “anima” as “Persona.”
Though Toni Wolff, who was her life long chain smoker, in recent years suffered from severe arthritis, she took up with shortly before her death therapies. She died of a heart attack.
- WRITINGS
- Introduction to the basics of the complex psychology. Berlin 1935
- The concept of the archetype in the complex psychology and its relationship to international science. Berlin 1950
- Structural forms of the female psyche. Psychologist III, Issue 7 / 8, 1951, 303-315 [Structural forms of the feminine psyche. Zurich 1956]
- The cultural significance of complex psychology. Festschrift for the 60th Jung’s birthday 1935
- Studies of Jungian psychology. Zurich 1959, Einsiedeln 1981
- LITERATURE AND LINKS
- Kirsch, Thomas Wolff, Antonia Anna, also known as Toni Wolff. In Dictionnaire international de la psychanalyse (2002). Edited by A. de Mijolla. Paris, 2005, 1919f [ International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis (9.4.2008)]
- Wikipedia (9.4.2008)
- PHOTO: Family Archive Wolff, No. 11 of 2005 Bair
