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Translate this Darkness Claire Douglas

Translate this Darkness By Claire Douglas

Translate this Darkness by Claire Douglas


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Christiana Morgan was an erotic muse who influenced twentieth-century psychology and inspired its male creators, including C G Jung, who saw in her the quintessential 'anima woman.' This biography explores how Morgan yearned to express her genius yet sublimated it to spark not only Jung but also her own lover Henry A Murray.

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Translate this Darkness: The Life of Christiana Morgan, the Veiled Woman in Jung's Circle by Claire Douglas

Christiana Morgan was an erotic muse who influenced twentieth-century psychology and inspired its male creators, including C. G. Jung, who saw in her the quintessential anima woman. Here Claire Douglas offers the first biography of this remarkable woman, exploring how Morgan yearned to express her genius yet sublimated it to spark not only Jung but also her own lover Henry A. Murray, a psychologist who with her help invented the thematic apperception test (TAT). Douglas recounts Morgan's own contributions to the study of emotions and feelings at the Harvard Psychological Clinic and vividly describes the analyst's turbulent life: her girlhood in a prominent Boston family; her difficult marriage; her intellectual awakening in postwar New York; her impassioned analysis with Jung, including her visions of a woman's heroic quest, many of which furthered his work on archetypes; her love affairs and experiences with sexual experimentation; her alcoholism; and, finally, her tragic death.

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The Christiana Morgan who emerges from this book is a fascinating woman, profound, imaginative, bold, and experimental. Her story is illuminating and deeply sad. But Morgan was ultimately a rebel... Even now she defies categorization: as a psychologist, as a lover, and perhaps even as a feminist symbol.--The New York Times Book Review Douglas's combination of biographical and analytic investigation invites a rethinking of what constitutes the psychic factors of women's lives and the psychology of gifted women in particular. [This book] brings a much-needed challenge to the post-Jungian and post-Freudian worldview.--Clarissa Pinkola Estes, Washington Post Book World

About Claire Douglas

Claire Douglas is a clinical psychologist and Jungian analyst with the C. G. Jung Society of Southern California. She is the editor of Visions: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1930-1934 by C. G. Jung, which is now available from Princeton University Press.

Table of Contents

Introduction PART ONE CHRISTIANA ONE Family Trees and Their Fruit TWO A Turn-of-the-Century Girl THREE God Help Me, Is All I Can Say FOUR Like a Stain of Blood FIVE The Clouds of War SIX Maybe Forever SEVEN The Origin of the Hero EIGHT Brother and Sister PART TWO WONA AND MANSOL NINE The Whale TEN Let's Do It, Harry! ELEVEN Thunders and Agitations TWELVE The Red and Gold Diary THIRTEEN The End of the Chase FOURTEEN The Hidden Last Act Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index

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GOR013458667
9780691017358
0691017352
Translate this Darkness: The Life of Christiana Morgan, the Veiled Woman in Jung's Circle by Claire Douglas
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Paperback
Princeton University Press
19971116
398
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