Jungfrauen
Jungfrauen ("Jung's women") was a satirical and scornful descriptive given by those on the outside of the supportive group of trainee women analysts (mainly based in
valkyries.[1]
Members
After his wife,
Esther Harding, and his secretary, Aniela Jaffé. Other, more peripheral, figures were Kristine Mann and Hilde Kirsch.[2]
Meaning
In this context, the term is a
means 'women'.Public image
vestal virgins" hovering around Jung, their sacred flame.[3] His secretary Aniela Jaffé, who was regarded as a member, said at an Eranos conference that they would throw off the stigma of the name Jungfrau and would hover around Jung like “bees around a honey-pot.”[4]
It has been suggested that Jung's foreign travels in Africa were partly motivated by his desire to escape from the Jungfrauen.[5]
Later criticism
One former Jungian woman has criticized Jung's early women acolytes. Naomi R. Goldenberg, said that “Jungian psychology is a patriarchal religion within which I once lived and worked...[for] years in a Jungian universe”.[6]
See also
References
- ^ F. McLynn, Carl Gustav Jung (1996) p. 327.
- ^ B. Burleson, Jung in Africa (2005) p. 48.
- ^ P. Bishop, The Dionysian Self (1995) p. 267.
- ^ A. Jaffé, From the Life and Work of C. G. Jung (1989) p. 134.
- ^ B. Burleson, Jung in Africa (2005) p. 204.
- ^ Naomi R. Goldenberg, Resurrecting the Body (1993) p. 5 and p. 116.
Bibliography
- Maggy Anthony, The Valkyries (1990)
- Thomas B. Kirsch, The Jungians (2000)
External links
Look up jungfrauen in Wiktionary, the free dictionary.
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