Jung's family forces his biographer to 'correct' sex claims

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Jung's family forces his biographer to 'correct' sex claims
By Tony Paterson in Berlin
Published: 04 August 2005

A biography of Carl Jung that alleges he had sexual relations with some of his female patients has angered the famed psycholanalyst's surviving family who are insisting that two pages of corrections be added to the book.

Jung: A Biography by the award-winning American biographer Deirdre Blair has also upset Jung's family with what relatives claim is an unfair description of his wife Emma and what they claim is an array of other mistakes. The book was pusblished to considerable acclaim in the US last year and is due to be published in German in October. But this week, publisher Knaus Verlag announced that the family's objections were so great that it had been obliged to add more than two pages of "corrections" to the German-language version, drawn from 12 pages of disputed facts.

"If we had done nothing, we could have been sued by the heirs," Rainer Dresen, a spokesman for Knaus Verlag, said. "But if we had done something, we could have been sued by the author. It was a question of who would attack us, so we thought we would reach a compromise."Objections drawn up by family representatives of the Jung estate in Switzerland cover scores of apparently trivial yet disputed facts in Blair's book. They range from the colour of a boat's sail to the exact moment when the Roman numeral II was added to Jung's name to give him the title Carl Gustav II Jung.

More seriously, the family objects to the diaries quoted in the book which suggest that Jung may have had sexual liaisons with some of his patients. They also take issue with a description of Jung's young wife, Emma, which claims she never showed warm feelings to her children.

http://news.independent.co.uk/europe/article303496.ece

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1. Interesting. I've long been a student of Jung, & among those

I know, it has been pretty much an accepted fact that he had sexual relationships w/some of his patients. It becomes interesting in regard to his analysis of their certain cases.

Thanks for posting the article link.

[MaryBear]

2. One of the things the book repeatedly mentioned,

as I recall, is the conservative nature of the Swiss. In line with that, these objections of the family might be expected. And about Emma Jung's parenting, my guess is that if someone wrote about my own mother or grandmother, etc., they would not capture her as I have known or heard of her through the family. For the intellectual community, the times of CG Jung were exciting in a way that the 60's didn't approach. He and his cohorts were exploring what it is to be human. Whether he had sex with a client or not, I imagine that the sexuality was quite present. The important point to me is that he did not fit into a box. And neither did she. I loved the book.