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Emma Jung

  • And now we come to the magic of words. A word, also, just like an idea, a thought, has the effect of reality upon undifferentiated minds.

    • Emma Jung,
    • "On the Nature of the Animus" (1931), Animus and Anima ()
  • Very frequently, feminine activity also expresses itself in what is largely a retrospectively oriented pondering over what we ought to have done differently in life, and how we ought to have done it; or, as if under compulsion, we make up strings of casual connections. We like to call this thinking; though, on the contrary, it is a form of mental activity that is strangely pointless and unproductive, a form that really leads only to self-torture.

    • Emma Jung

Emma Jung, Swiss scholar, lecturer

(1882 - 1955)