Emma Young

Emma Jung, 1911.

Emma Jung (born March 30, 1882 in Schaffhausen as Emma Marie Rauschenbach ; † November 27, 1955 in Zurich ) was a Swiss psychoanalyst . She was the wife of Carl Gustav Jung .

Life

Emma Jung came from the Schaffhausen entrepreneurial dynasty Rauschenbach. Her paternal grandfather, the Schaffhausen machine manufacturer Johannes Rauschenbach-Vogel (1815–1881), took over the Swiss watchmaking company IWC in 1880 . A year later, his son, her father Johannes Rauschenbach-Schenk (1856–1905), took over the management of the watch manufacturer. In the following decades he achieved the economic breakthrough with the company, which he managed successfully until his death.

Emma Jung was married to Carl Gustav Jung on February 14, 1903, with whom she had five children. Her husband analyzed her from 1910; from 1930 she herself worked as a psychoanalyst . In addition, Emma Jung u. a. with animus and anima and the symbolic meaning of motifs of the Grail legend as archetypes .

Her husband was a partner in the watch factory until 1929. Then Ernst Jakob Homberger (1869–1955), the husband of her younger sister Bertha Margaretha (1883–1969), bought the shares in the company and also took over the management of the watch manufacture. Bertha Margaretha Rauschenbach married the industrialist from Schaffhausen and director of Georg Fischer AG in 1903 .

Works

The legend of the Grail from a psychological point of view. Rascher, Zurich / Stuttgart 1960 (fragment, supplemented posthumously by Marie-Louise von Franz ).
Animus and anima. Rascher, Zurich / Stuttgart 1967.

literature

Brigitte Allain-Dupré: Jung-Rauschenbach, Emma (1882–1955). In: International Dictionary of Psychoanalysis . Thomson Gale, Detroit 2005.

Web links

Literature by and about Emma Jung in the catalog of the German National Library

Individual evidence

^ IWC Chronology ( Memento from July 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), IWC website.
^ Clemens Moser-Schaefle: Ernst Jacob Homberger-Rauschenbach and Georg Fischer AG. In: Journal of Company History. Vol. 36 (1991), H. 2, pp. 76-102, here: p. 84.

personal data
SURNAME	Young, Emma
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Rauschenbach, Emma (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Swiss psychoanalyst
DATE OF BIRTH	March 30, 1882
PLACE OF BIRTH	Schaffhausen
DATE OF DEATH	November 27, 1955
Place of death	Zurich

[1] IWC Chronology ( Memento from July 1, 2012 in the Internet Archive ), IWC website.

[2] Clemens Moser-Schaefle: Ernst Jacob Homberger-Rauschenbach and Georg Fischer AG. In: Journal of Company History. Vol. 36 (1991), H. 2, pp. 76-102, here: p. 84.