Carl Jung hearing of the death of Toni Wolff.
Jung: His Life And Work, A Biographical Memoir
Outwardly he kept extremely calm, so that both his wife and his secretary told me they thought he had over-come the shock after a few days, but from my notes for April 1953, I see that he said himself that his pulse was still between eighty and 120; moreover this trouble continued for some time.
He had been helped, it is true, by seeing Toni in a dream. .. on Easter Eve, looking much taller and younger than she had been when she died, and exceedingly beautiful.
She was wearing a frock of all the colors of a bird of paradise, with the wonderful blue of the kingfisher as the most emphasized color.
He saw just her image, there was no action in the dream, and he was especially impressed by having dreamed it on the night of the resurrection. ~Barbara Hannah, “Jung,” Page 313.
Image:
Toni Wolff in garden at Bollingen.
Although Jung tried to get Toni Wolff’s scientific writings published after her death in 1953, as yet they remain unpublished.
Toni Wolff Biography
Antonia (Toni) Wolff(l888-1953), analytical psychologist and teacher, was for over 40 years a member of Jung’s closest circle.
Born into a distinguished Zurich family, after her father’s death in 1910 her mother sent her to C.G. Jung, a young psychiatrist, for treatment.
Her aptitude for psychology was immediately evident, and she quickly became a leading exponent of Jung’s thought.
From the time of Jung’s break with Freud in 1912, she was a trusted confidante and co-worker with Jung, occupying an important place in his life.
In his letters of 1947 and 1948, White often includes Toni Wolff in his closing greetings.
Wolff became President of the Zurich Psychological Club for a brief time after its founding in 1916.
She then held the presidency, with short breaks, from 1926 until she retired in 1952.
From 1948 until her death she taught at the Jung Institute, on whose founding committee she served with Jung and C.A. Meier.
At the founding of the Institute, April 1948, Jung singled out her essay,” [“Introduction to the Foundations of Complex Psychology”] as “a work distinguished for its philosphical clarity.”
[The Cultural Meaning of Complex Psychology] (1935), were republished after her death as [Studies in Jungian Psychology]
Jung’s Foreword to the latter edition appears in CW 10, Civilization i11 Transition (§887-902, pp. 4691f). ~Jung-White Letters, Page 38, fn 49
Toni Wolff Dream
Black Books
Aug. 1919
Dream: I am in an anatomical museum, recently arranged by a great artist. A great hall.
On a massive table rest 4 enormous gloriously bound old books, presumably anatomical.
On the wall I see a prepared heart with a piece of tendon at the apex. Individual fingers in addition.
Lili wants to tear them down and play with them. I stop her.
Then I see in the middle of the room an old rotting ship’s cannon and read on a small board that it was discovered by 2 youths in a peculiar way (witching wand?).
They searched the foundations of old fortifications, but found the more interesting cannon. Then Emma entered, Franz [Jung’s son] behind her.
I see, she thinks that this is something more for Franz than for Lili [Jung’s youngest daughter].
Franz has my American hat on and my old uniform shirt that reaches to his knees. In addition a child’s gun with a bayonet.
He seems hollow- cheeked and bent like a medieval scholar, overwhelmed by the impression, mouth and eyes wide open, completely dumb and stupefied.
Vision in the same night.
To the right of the bed of my wife there is a great angel of the most severe form in a praying position.
To the left of him is a dark transparent dangerous mass. I see only the following forms in it.
Then I see the angel to the left of me. He indicates a bright spot (*) from which a deathly pale maiden with almost closed eyes, black hair, sharp southern features, around 28 years old
(the same as on p. 26) [Jung’s vision of the maiden 1917] steps forward. She remains around 2 meters from my bed and excites an uncomfortable sexual feeling in me. ~Carl Jung, The Black Books, Page 851
Sunday/Monday. In 1923, Jung gave a talk on “Psychological types” at the International Congress for Pedagogy in Montreux (CW 6). Sometime in 1923, Jung made a painting that featured Philemon and other figures (The Art of C.G. Jung, cat. 66, p. 145), with the following inscription on the verso: