One might describe her as eccentric, but that is too superficial a characterization. I was overwhelmed by a striking variety of impressions first of all by this small, stocky, attractive woman, her intense gaze, her colorful, sophisticated level of conversation in English, and her no-nonsense, earthy manner (even evident in several food stains visible on her tailored suit I later learned that she privately enjoyed such indications of natural imperfection in contrast to the elegant, sterile atmosphere of her childhood). von Franz suddenly stood before me, shook my hand, and led me into her main room, where she sat me down in front of her and began to question me in depth. The two dogs became fast friends, and I was able to enjoy peace during my hours, relatively speaking, when I brought my dog, Cleo.) That was a mistake I quickly learned to correct in future sessions. (Only afterward did 1 realize that he was tracking the smells of my own collie, whom I hadn’t brought with me to the hour. In this small niche, as I briefly waited for my hour, I was accosted by a lovable bulldog named Nibby, who enthusiastically sniffed and licked me all over. She gave analysis in a large room separated from a small anteroom by a room divider. That first encounter will remain forever etched in my memory.Īt the time, she occupied several rooms in the middle of the village of Kusnacht, a town on the outskirts of the city of Zurich. The dream was quite obscure to me at the time, but so powerful and alluring that I found a way to visit Zurich and meet Dr. She beckoned to me to come closer and join in the dig. But instead of relics and artifacts from the past, a complex pattern of vibrating, three-dimensional geometric figures emerged out of a mandala-shaped foundation, as though they formed the skeleton of a town or a city. von Franz as she was excavating a Greek site. Then I had a most perplexing dream, one of the few that I remember from my youth. Shortly thereafter, a friend of mine visiting in Zurich reported that Jung had recently died and that a most unusual woman, a kind of spiritual successor, was carrying on his work together with an inspired group of other pupils. Jung’s which excited and surprised me because his writings exuded life, profound spiritual reality, and a vast intelligence. I had scoured the libraries for reading material and had suddenly come across a book of C. I was barely twenty-one years old, had just graduated from the first four years of an American university, and was in search of a different approach to the popular trends prevailing in psychology and psychotherapy in the United States at that time. Nora Mindell – Obituary of Marie-Louise von Franz
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