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In C. G. Jung: His Myth in Our Time Marie-Louise von Franz writes of Jung, ‘Women, who are by nature closer to the principle of Eros than to that of Logos, understood him better as a rule than men did’ (p. 21).
Toni Wolff held a special place among the many women who gathered round Jung in Zürich. Brought to him by her mother in 1911 at the age of twenty-three, suffering from depression following her father's death, she stayed on to work with him as his assistant until her death in 1953, her outstanding contribution being her service to the Psychological Club, Zürich, of which she was an energetic president from 1928 for nearly twenty years. In his introduction written for the first edition of the book in 1959, Jung calls her his ‘friend and collaborator’ and pays tribute to ‘her high natural intelligence and quite exceptional psychological insight’ (pp. 7 and 8); but she was also for him a femme inspiratrice, the female figure who ‘awakens the individual psychic life in a man which, reaching beyond his masculine responsibilities, makes of him a whole personality’ (p. 275); in Wolff's own description of this aspect of the anima we can sense something of the nature of her relationship with Jung.
This edition of Studies in C. G. Jung's Psychology is published in paperback under the editorship of C. A. Meier, who writes a foreword to it. It contains the original Introduction by Jung (to be found in English translation in Vol. 10 of the Collected Works) and includes a selection of Wolff's writings spanning the years 1932 to 1951, ‘Introduction to the principles of complex psychology’, and some short papers: ‘Some principles of dream interpretation’, ‘Thoughts on the individuation process in woman’, ‘Structural forms of the feminine psyche’, ‘Tantric symbolism in Goethe’, and ‘Christianity within’. The last paper was delivered in English in 1946 to the Guild of Pastoral Psychology, London, and is available in its original form, as Guild Lecture no. 42.
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