In 1902, he became engaged to Emma Rauschenbach, whom he married and with whom he had five children.
Up till this point, Jung had kept a diary. In one of the last entries, dated May 1902, he wrote:
“I am no longer alone with myself, and I can only artificially recall the scary and beautiful feeling of solitude.
This is the shadow side of the fortune of love.”
For Jung, his marriage marked a move away from the solitude to which he had been accustomed. ~The Red Book, Page 196
Around the same time, when his parents were separated for a short time, another young woman made her appearance.
She had blond hair and blue eyes and was very amiable.
And again the setting remained in the autobiographer’s memory-a stroll beneath golden maple and chestnut trees on a blue autumn day “along the Rhine below the Falls, near Worth castle.
The sun is shining through the foliage, and yellow leaves lie on the ground.”
And, Jung added, twenty-one years later he would meet this woman again; she was his future mother-in-law, Bertha Rauschenbach-Schenk. ~Jung: A Biography by Gerhard Wehr, Pages 87-95
