"One evening years after the rupture between Freud and Jung, the Swiss psychiatrist C. A. Meier spent an hour alone with Freud in his study at Berggasse 19. "There was one topic of conversation," Meier remembered. "Jung. Freud was full of questions about Jung, about his family, his life and what he was doing. Every conceivable question," Meier said. "Because he still cared." Meier would find the same anguish in Jung. "He didn't like to talk about Freud
because it was so painful." Another Swiss analyst agreed. "The wound was always there, it never healed. It was a tragedy." The hours that Freud and Jung had spent in Freud's dim and quiet study lay in the past.
The long ordeal of Freud and Jung was reminder and more that some piece of the human psyche was beyond comprehension. The moment when the world's first analysts, unable to alleviate their pain, played with stones at the edge of a dry lakeshore or stood for hours before the statue of an angry prophet, bore witness to the intransigent mystery of the human spirit. That mystery was the terrible beauty of the psyche, and they lived it, Freud and Jung, alone."
- from Freud and Jung
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About the Author:
A doctoral candidate in clinical psychology when she began researching the friendship between Freud and Jung, Linda Donn graduated from Barnard College and studied at the Sorbonne. She has published a second work of nonfiction, The Roosevelt Cousins, (Alfred A. Knopf) and the novel The Little Balloonist (Dutton and Co.). Ms. Donn is currently finishing another novel, Himalaya/Dreams.
Review:
"Donn brings to life the initial enthusiasm and growing love between the two men, leading to their enormously complex and deep association .... Donn has an engaging imagination and a journalist's eye for the facts...a lucid and intriguing version of ... the two dominant streams of psychoanalytic thought." -Kirkus Reviews
"Illuminating....This flesh-and-blood portrait of the shattered alliance examines the emotional consequences for both men and should touch the general reader as well as the professional." -Publisher's Weekly
"Well-detailed and good reading for everyone interested in one of the seminal quarrels of modern psychology. Donn brings a novelist's touch to the events." -The San Francisco Chronicle
"Donn's account is often vivid. Their close friendship between 1907 and 1916 is also of interest because it served as a sounding board for their ideas, and, in fact, as a vital component of their sanity which became precarious, as Linda Donn puts it, when they probed 'the terrible beauty of the psyche.'" -The Los Angeles Times
"This is the story of one of the great intellectual friendships of this or any other century....The writer documents all this but proceeds with remarkable objectivity." -The Los Angeles Daily News
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- PublisherScribner Book Company
- Publication date1988
- ISBN 10 0684189623
- ISBN 13 9780684189628
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages238
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