Emma Jung (née Emma Rauschenbach, 30 March 1882 – 27 November 1955) was the wife of Carl Jung, the prominent psychiatrist and founder of Analytical psychology. She came from an old Swiss-German family of wealthy industrialists; that wealth later gave Carl Jung the financial freedom to pursue his own work and interests. They met when she was sixteen years old (some sources say fifteen) and he was twenty one. They were married on 14 February 1903 (...
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Emma Jung (née Emma Rauschenbach, 30 March 1882 – 27 November 1955) was the wife of Carl Jung, the prominent psychiatrist and founder of Analytical psychology. She came from an old Swiss-German family of wealthy industrialists; that wealth later gave Carl Jung the financial freedom to pursue his own work and interests. They met when she was sixteen years old (some sources say fifteen) and he was twenty one. They were married on 14 February 1903 (Valentine's Day) seven years after they first met. Together they had five children: Agathe, Gret, Franz, Marianne and Helene.
In 1906, various of Carl Jung's unusual dreams of the period were interpreted by Freud as portending the "failure of a marriage for money" (das Scheitern einer Geldheirat).
Emma Jung took a strong interest in her husband's work and became a noted analyst in her own right. She developed a particular interest in the Grail legend. She was a psychoanalyst before they married, although her "independence" of him in this field...
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