The personal relationship between Dr. Jung and Sabina Spielrein has long been debated but to date there is no documented evidence that Sabina Spielrein was ever Dr. Jung's âMistressâ as the author claims.
Persons interested in looking beyond innuendo would be well advised to read for themselves not only the actual correspondence between Dr. Jung and Sabina Spielrein which are both insightful and often at variance with assertions found within the book as evidenced by the documented quotations below:
âYour thinking is bold, far-reaching, and philosophical.â ~Carl Jung to Sabina Spielrein, August 8, 1911.
âBut never forget that under no circumstances must you retreat from an immediate goal which your heart considers good and reasonable.â ~Carl Jung to Sabina Spielrein, Sept. 22 [?], 1911.
âYour study is extraordinarily intelligent and contains splendid ideas whose priority I am happy to acknowledge as yours.â ~Carl Jung to Sabina Spielrein, Dec. 23, 1912
It is a tragedy that no publisher has stepped forward to publish the magnificent writings of Sabina Spielrein into English.
Prior to accepting the author's assertions and conclusions regarding Dr. Jung's views on women the discriminating reader would do well to read what Dr. Jung wrote himself:
A marriage is more likely to succeed if the woman follows her own star and remains conscious of her wholeness than if she constantly concerns herself with her husband's star and his wholeness. ~ Carl Jung, Conversations with C.G. Jung, Page 51.
My experience has impressed the tenacity and toughness of the female nature, which nothing has changed for thousands of years, far too deeply upon me for me to suppose that the right to vote could bring such a wonder to pass. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, 24Jan1959.
European philosophy must take into account the existence of feminine psychology. ~Carl Jung to Richard Wilhelm, Letters Vol. 1, Pages 67-68.
I have always advised analysts: âHave a father confessor, or a mother confessor!â Women are particularly gifted for playing such a part. They often have excellent intuition and critical insight, and can see what men have up their sleeves, at times see also into men's anima intrigues. They see aspects that the man does not see. ~Carl Jung, MDR, Page 134.
Most men are afraid of something and are full of prejudicesâwhich are not there in the case of most women. ~Carl Jung, C.G. Jung Speaking: Interviews and Encounters, Pages 244-251
Women are much tougher than men underneath. To call women the weaker sex is sheer nonsense. ~Carl Jung, C.G. Jung Speaking, Pages 244-251
At all times there have been wise and shrewd women to whom even clever men have gone for advice. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 477-478
There are countless women who succeed in public life without losing their femininity. On the contrary, they succeeded precisely because of it. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 477-478
I would strongly advise you to do this bit of analysis with a woman, since experience has shown that analysis with a man always has an effect on the animus, which for its part loosens up the personality again, whereas analysis with a woman tends on the contrary to have a âprecipitatingâ effect. C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. I, Pages 190-191
Dr. Jung went on to speak of the strength of womanhood, how it is stronger than any [imitation of the] male adaptation, and how a woman who is woman from the crown of her head to the tip of her toe can afford to be masculine, just as a man who is sure of his masculinity can afford to be tender and patient like a woman â¦. ~Esther Harding, Conversations with Jung, Page 8.
When the woman experiences the mystery of creativeness in herself, in her own inner world, she is doing the right thing and then no longer demands it from the outside â from her husband, her son, or anyone else close to her. . ~Carl Jung, Conversations with C.G. Jung, Page 29.
It may also be of interest to read what Jane Wheelwright had to say about women in the forthcoming Age which is a theme to be found throughout Dr. Jung's Collected Works, Seminars, Letters, The Red Book, etc.:
âJung seemed to say that the new era can come through only by means of the feminine principle (through Eros) and that is not only in the man's experience of his anima.
It obviously has to come primarily through women.
No man's anima can compare to a real flesh-and-blood woman.
It can, however, give the man some respect and belief and liking and trusting women that can help forward the movement.
On this note I would like to end, because it refers to Jung's farsightedness and to his specific contribution to the future.
Without it I feel there would be far more delay in the understanding of women.
It also is another example of how Jung's broad vision did in the long run constellate for me specifically my need to strive towards being a free modern woman with my roots planted deeply in the soil of archaic woman.
The more Jung's concepts of the animus and anima are understood and the more Jung's insistence on the conscious realization of these concepts, the sooner the woman's movement will bring about the necessary changes in our society. At least I think so.
I wish therefore to honor Jung as having made an enormous contribution to this next step in our social evolution.â ~Jane Wheelwright, J.E.T., Pages 96-97.
Persons interested in looking beyond innuendo would be well advised to read for themselves not only the actual correspondence between Dr. Jung and Sabina Spielrein which are both insightful and often at variance with assertions found within the book as evidenced by the documented quotations below:
âYour thinking is bold, far-reaching, and philosophical.â ~Carl Jung to Sabina Spielrein, August 8, 1911.
âBut never forget that under no circumstances must you retreat from an immediate goal which your heart considers good and reasonable.â ~Carl Jung to Sabina Spielrein, Sept. 22 [?], 1911.
âYour study is extraordinarily intelligent and contains splendid ideas whose priority I am happy to acknowledge as yours.â ~Carl Jung to Sabina Spielrein, Dec. 23, 1912
It is a tragedy that no publisher has stepped forward to publish the magnificent writings of Sabina Spielrein into English.
Prior to accepting the author's assertions and conclusions regarding Dr. Jung's views on women the discriminating reader would do well to read what Dr. Jung wrote himself:
A marriage is more likely to succeed if the woman follows her own star and remains conscious of her wholeness than if she constantly concerns herself with her husband's star and his wholeness. ~ Carl Jung, Conversations with C.G. Jung, Page 51.
My experience has impressed the tenacity and toughness of the female nature, which nothing has changed for thousands of years, far too deeply upon me for me to suppose that the right to vote could bring such a wonder to pass. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, 24Jan1959.
European philosophy must take into account the existence of feminine psychology. ~Carl Jung to Richard Wilhelm, Letters Vol. 1, Pages 67-68.
I have always advised analysts: âHave a father confessor, or a mother confessor!â Women are particularly gifted for playing such a part. They often have excellent intuition and critical insight, and can see what men have up their sleeves, at times see also into men's anima intrigues. They see aspects that the man does not see. ~Carl Jung, MDR, Page 134.
Most men are afraid of something and are full of prejudicesâwhich are not there in the case of most women. ~Carl Jung, C.G. Jung Speaking: Interviews and Encounters, Pages 244-251
Women are much tougher than men underneath. To call women the weaker sex is sheer nonsense. ~Carl Jung, C.G. Jung Speaking, Pages 244-251
At all times there have been wise and shrewd women to whom even clever men have gone for advice. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 477-478
There are countless women who succeed in public life without losing their femininity. On the contrary, they succeeded precisely because of it. ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. II, Pages 477-478
I would strongly advise you to do this bit of analysis with a woman, since experience has shown that analysis with a man always has an effect on the animus, which for its part loosens up the personality again, whereas analysis with a woman tends on the contrary to have a âprecipitatingâ effect. C.G. Jung ~Carl Jung, Letters Vol. I, Pages 190-191
Dr. Jung went on to speak of the strength of womanhood, how it is stronger than any [imitation of the] male adaptation, and how a woman who is woman from the crown of her head to the tip of her toe can afford to be masculine, just as a man who is sure of his masculinity can afford to be tender and patient like a woman â¦. ~Esther Harding, Conversations with Jung, Page 8.
When the woman experiences the mystery of creativeness in herself, in her own inner world, she is doing the right thing and then no longer demands it from the outside â from her husband, her son, or anyone else close to her. . ~Carl Jung, Conversations with C.G. Jung, Page 29.
It may also be of interest to read what Jane Wheelwright had to say about women in the forthcoming Age which is a theme to be found throughout Dr. Jung's Collected Works, Seminars, Letters, The Red Book, etc.:
âJung seemed to say that the new era can come through only by means of the feminine principle (through Eros) and that is not only in the man's experience of his anima.
It obviously has to come primarily through women.
No man's anima can compare to a real flesh-and-blood woman.
It can, however, give the man some respect and belief and liking and trusting women that can help forward the movement.
On this note I would like to end, because it refers to Jung's farsightedness and to his specific contribution to the future.
Without it I feel there would be far more delay in the understanding of women.
It also is another example of how Jung's broad vision did in the long run constellate for me specifically my need to strive towards being a free modern woman with my roots planted deeply in the soil of archaic woman.
The more Jung's concepts of the animus and anima are understood and the more Jung's insistence on the conscious realization of these concepts, the sooner the woman's movement will bring about the necessary changes in our society. At least I think so.
I wish therefore to honor Jung as having made an enormous contribution to this next step in our social evolution.â ~Jane Wheelwright, J.E.T., Pages 96-97.
