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… The respective portraits that emerge of these three founding figures of analytical psychology are surprisingly homogeneous: Emma Jung comes over as strong and quiet, warm, gracious, sensitive, and authentic, a woman with her own ideas and her Swiss humour, who had achieved a ‘fine balance of creative animus and feminine functioning’
(Howes, p. ); there are no adverse comments about her: she seems to have been almost universally admired, respected and loved. In contrast, those who write about Toni Wolff have often had to struggle with their first impressions of an aloof, stern, reserved, even forbidding woman to discover other facets of her many-sided personality: that she could be down-to-earth and practical, and, to some, a stalwart friend who offered a special quality of depth of relationship.
Perhaps inevitably, the material is unevenly distributed among the three subjects, at least two-thirds of it being concerned with Jung. A number of contributors comment on his vitality and intensity, his humour and seriousness, his humanity, his regard and attentiveness and his ability to convey to visitors that they were ‘interesting people worth listening to’. But he is not, on the whole, idealized: some writers express discomfort at the adulation he received, especially from his band of women followers;…
(From JAP, 30, 1, January 1985)