Labyrinths: Emma Jung, Her Marriage to Carl, and the Early Years of Psychoanalysis

A sensational, eye-opening account of Emma Jung's complex marriage to Carl Gustav Jung and the hitherto unknown role she played in the early years of the psychoanalytic movement.

Clever and ambitious, Emma Jung yearned to study the natural sciences at the University of Zurich. But the strict rules of proper Swiss society at the beginning of the twentieth century dictated that a woman of Emma's stature-one of the richest heiresses in Switzerland-travel to Paris to "finish" her education, to p...