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Good dramatic writing is an expression of empathy. The words must carry fellow feeling, inhabiting the various perspectives of individuals in conflict struggling to find a viable foothold in the tumultuous currents of their lives. The play script, Out of the Shadows: A Story of Emma Jung and Toni Wolff, written by Elizabeth Clark-Stern, chronicles the experiences and relationship between two aristocratic Swiss women in the life of Dr. Carl Jung. Throughout forty, often wounding, years of interaction, Emma, Jung's wife, and Toni, his mistress, friend and analyst, suffered the pain of engagement in a triangulated relationship. Therapist and dramatist Clark-Stern offers us a fresh slant on this complex alliance, creating two women characters with strength and resilience, capable of insight, change and growth through the storm of their difficult liaison.
Toni and Emma occupy centre stage and are the focus of the reader/viewer's attention in this two-person drama. They are cast, not as ‘Jungian women', the constellation of acolytes who in the first half of the previous century surrounded and bolstered Jung,