Jolande Jacobi

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Jolande Jacobi (born March 25, 1890 in Budapest , † April 1, 1973 in Zurich ) was a Hungarian psychologist who worked for Carl Gustav Jung for many years .

Life

Jolande Jacobi, b. Székács , was the daughter of Jewish parents (father † 1945 by suicide because of persecution by the Arrow Cross militia officers, mother † 1950); her father, Antal, was a businessman and member of the Senate. She was one of the first girls to attend grammar school in Budapest and graduated in 1908 with the Matura. In June 1909 she married the Budapest lawyer Andor Jacobi (1876–1944). The couple converted to the evangelical faith in 1911.

After the First World War, the Jacobi family moved to Vienna with their two sons - Andor junior and Ernst. In 1924 Andor Jacobi fell ill with depression , which was the first time his wife came into contact with mental illness . In 1926 Jolande Jacobi made friends with the writer Albert von Trentini , who influenced her religiously: in 1934 she converted to Catholicism .

During her time in Vienna, Jolande Jacobi took on the executive vice-presidency of the Austrian Cultural Association from 1928 to 1938, which enabled her to establish many contacts with artists and scholars, which she also cultivated privately. These included Hermann Broch and Ernst Polak . She had also given Polak the crucial reference to Moritz Schlick for his studies .

As part of her work for the Kulturbund, Jolande Jacobi first met CG Jung in Vienna in 1927. Since then she has been committed to his work. However, Jung had made a doctorate in psychology a condition for a student body . For this reason, in 1934, the year after the National Socialists came to power in Germany, she began studying psychology at the University of Vienna with Charlotte Bühler and Karl Bühler . In 1938 she received her doctorate with a dissertation on the psychology of old age. Since then she has been a student and later an employee of CG Jung in Switzerland.

Ernst Polak from his English exile in the first half of 1939 contributed to her manuscript introducing the complete works of CG Jung. The introduction by CG Jung, which first appeared in 1940 in Zurich's Rascher Verlag and was able to achieve numerous editions with other publishers, and has now been translated into 15 languages, was particularly authorized.

In 1957 she received Austrian citizenship .

Because of her death, an illustrated psychology book, on which she had previously worked intensively, with the title: "The tree as a symbol", remained unfinished.

Works

As an author

  • The psychology of CG Jung. An introduction to the complete works . Rascher, Zurich 1940; 5th supplement A. ibid. 1967
  • Complex, archetype, symbol in CG Jung's psychology . Rascher, Zurich 1957
  • The way to individuation . Rascher, Zurich 1965
  • Women's problems, marital problems . Rascher, Zurich 1968
  • From the picture realm of the soul. Paths and detours to yourself . Walter, Olten 1969
  • The soul mask. Insights into the psychology of everyday life . Walter, Olten 1971

As editor

  • Paracelsus : Living Legacy. A selection from all of his writings with 150 contemporary illustrations . Rascher, Zurich 1942
  • Psychological considerations. A selection from the writings of CG Jung . Rascher, Zurich 1945
    • Revised new edition as: Mensch und Seele . Walter, Olten 1971
  • Symbols of change. Analysis of the foreplay to schizophrenia (with CG Jung). Rascher, Zurich 1952 (= revised new edition of changes and symbols of the libido )

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Paul Michael Lützeler: Friendship in Exile: Thomas Mann and Hermann Broch . Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main 2004, p. 49.
  2. ↑ Dieter Sulzer: The estate of Ernst Polak in the German literature archive. Report, index and edition of letters from Polak, Werfel and Broch. In: Fritz Martini, Walter Müller-Seidel, Bernhard Zeller (Ed.): Yearbook of the German Schiller Society . 23rd year, Kröner, Stuttgart 1979, p. 527.
  3. ^ A b Dieter Sulzer: The estate of Ernst Polak in the German literature archive. Report, index and edition of letters from Polak, Werfel and Broch. In: Fritz Martini, Walter Müller-Seidel, Bernhard Zeller (Ed.): Yearbook of the German Schiller Society . 23rd year, Kröner, Stuttgart 1979, p. 528.
  4. ↑ Dieter Sulzer: The estate of Ernst Polak in the German literature archive. Report, index and edition of letters from Polak, Werfel and Broch. In: Fritz Martini, Walter Müller-Seidel, Bernhard Zeller (Ed.): Yearbook of the German Schiller Society . 23rd year, Kröner, Stuttgart 1979, p. 530.
  5. ↑ Hartmut Binder: Ernst Polak - literary man without work . In: Fritz Martini, Walter Müller-Seidel, Bernhard Zeller (Ed.): Yearbook of the German Schiller Society . 23rd year, Kröner, Stuttgart 1979, p. 414.
personal data
SURNAME Jacobi, Jolande
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Hungarian-Austrian psychologist and long-time employee of CG Jung
DATE OF BIRTH March 25, 1890
PLACE OF BIRTH Budapest
DATE OF DEATH April 1, 1973
Place of death Zurich