Inspirational Quotations

Inspirational Quotes by Emma Jung (Swiss Psychoanalyst, Author)

Emma Jung (1882–1955,) born Emma Marie Rauschenbach, was a Swiss Jungian analyst and author. She was the wife, financier, and collaborator of Carl Gustav Jung, the founder of analytical psychology.

Born in Schaffhausen, Switzerland, Emma was the daughter of a wealthy industrialist, and one of Switzerland’s wealthiest heirs. Even though her family belonged to the upper bourgeoisie, and her father was a cultivated patron of the arts, she did not receive higher education.

Emma was one of the exceptional wives of innovators who took an interest in the husband’s intellectual pursuits and participated in his research. Carl and Emma had five children. Despite his infidelities and the suffering they caused her, she used her intelligence and sensitivity to try not only to understand him but also to understand herself as a woman.

Emma Jung started work as an analyst in 1930. She published two essays, “The Problem of the Animus” (1931) and “The Mythical Representations of the Anima” (1955,) that were later published together as Animus and Anima (1955.) These two essays discuss the different archetypes of psychic sexuation—the feminine “anima” in the man and the masculine “animus” in the woman.

Appraisers maintain that the originality of Jung’s writings is rooted in her approach as a woman to the female psyche—a divergence from the characteristically sexist works of the pioneers of psychoanalysis.

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The real thinking of woman is pre-eminently practical and applied. It is something we describe as sound common sense, and is usually directed to what is close at hand and personal. In general, it can be said that feminine mentality manifests an undeveloped, childlike, or primitive character; instead of the thirst for knowledge, curiosity; instead of judgment, prejudice; instead of thinking, imagination or dreaming; instead of will, wishing. Where a man takes up objective problems, a woman contents herself with solving riddles; where he battles for knowledge and understanding, she contents herself with faith or superstition, or else she makes assumptions.
Emma Jung
Topics: Women

In our time, when such threatening forces of deavage are at work, splitting peoples, individuals and atoms, it is doubly necessary that those which unite and hold together should become effective; for life is founded on the harmonious interplay of masculine and feminine forces, within the individual human being as well as without. Bringing these opposites into union is one of the most important tasks of present-day psychotherapy.
Emma Jung

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