Emma Jung (1882–1955) was the life and work partner of one of the great intellectual figures of the twentieth century, yet she kept most of her creative and personal life private. Dedicated to the Soul brings together previously unpublished materials from Jung’s private archive, introducing her voice into the literature of the early psychoanalytical movement and revealing a vibrant inner life and a glowing presence that until now was known only to her family and a handful of patients, students, and friends.
This fully annotated collection features journal entries, dream accounts, drawings, paintings, and lectures. It sheds new light on Jung as an early collaborator in the creation of analytical psychology who may have originated the concept of the animus, one of C. G. Jung’s central constructs. It paints a riveting portrait of a dynamic woman who, determined to break free of the conventional world of her upbringing, fearlessly interrogated her social environment and developed her own systems of meaning.
With introductory essays that chart Jung’s personal, intellectual, and psychological development, Dedicated to the Soul brings the creative work of this boldly imaginative and irreverent spirit to a wider audience and offers new perspectives on the role of women in the early history of analytical psychology.
Ann Conrad Lammers is a former Jungian psychotherapist and the editor of Erich Neumann’s The Roots of Jewish Consciousness. Thomas Fischer is an editor at the Foundation of the Works of C. G. Jung. A great-grandson of Emma and Carl Jung, he is the coeditor of The Art of C. G. Jung. Medea Hoch is an art scholar whose books include an edited collection of the letters of Swiss abstract artist Sophie Taeuber-Arp.
“The much-awaited publication of Dedicated to the Soul greatly enhances scholarship in the history of analytical psychology. Emma Jung can now be more fully appreciated as a profound scholar-analyst-visionary in her own right as well as an essential dialogue partner with C. G. Jung. The excellent translations and commentaries make this a rare and enriching contribution.”—Joseph Cambray, former president and CEO, Pacifica Graduate Institute
“After decades of Emma Jung being left in the shadows and traduced in the biographical literature, Dedicated to the Soul helps her regain her rightful place as the central figure in C. G. Jung’s life, an essential collaborator in the making of analytical psychology and a fervent explorer of the soul’s mysteries in her own right.”—Sonu Shamdasani, University College London
“Emma Jung has her own voice in this stunning sensitively edited and historically contextualized collection. And what a voice it is! Lecturer, poet, painter, cosmologist, and dream worker, this pioneer of analytical psychology proves a formidable thinker and remarkable artist of the soul. The twenty-first century needs her work.”—Susan Rowland, author of Jung: A Feminist Revision
“In Dedicated to the Soul, Emma Jung brilliantly emerges from the shadows as a remarkable woman who, with her husband, C. G. Jung, created the legacy we have received as analytical psychology. It is a story of a heroine’s journey to victory against all the odds. Thrilling and deeply moving.”—Murray Stein, author of Jung’s Map of the Soul
