Obituary Notice

Frances Gillespie Wickes died in a nursing home in New Hampshire, U.S.A., on 5 May, 1967, aged 91 years and nine months. She was a Jungian analyst in New York for almost forty years and had written three books on analytical psychology: The inner world of childhood, ; The inner world of man, 1938; and The inner world of choice, 1963. In addition she wrote several papers on analytical psychology and a novel. She lectured in California, London and Zürich as well as in New York, and gave a Seminar on ‘Choice and decision’ at the Zürich Institute in 1961. She was the widow of Thomas Wickes and mother of a son, Eliphalet, both of whom predeceased her by many years. She is survived by a sister.

Frances Wickes was one of the analysts who worked with C. G. Jung, personally, in the early days. There are only a few of us left, and we will miss her not only for the long and loyal support she has given to our attempts to get Jung's teaching more widely known, but also for her gallant spirit and her friendly presence. She was one of the small group of Jungians who met regularly in New York for discussion in the 1920S, and was a founding member of the Analytical Psychology Club of New York (1936) and of the Association for Analytical Psychology . She regularly attended the meetings of the Professional Society until increasing ill-health made it impossible for her to continue. She will be sadly missed by her many friends and especially by her analysants. And for those of us who were her colleagues and also knew her as friend, her place will not be easily filled.

When she first went to see Jung in the 1920s Frances Wickes had already a store of material gathered during her years as a teacher. Dr Jung expressed great interest in her work and discussed it with her at length. She had a natural gift for understanding children and the secret inner life that they rarely reveal directly to grown-ups. But Frances was able to penetrate to their underlying fantasy life through