Christiana Morgan was an erotic muse who influenced twentieth-century
psychology and inspired its male creators, including C. G. Jung, who
saw in her the quintessential "anima woman." Here Claire Douglas
offers the first biography of this remarkable woman, exploring how
Morgan yearned to express her genius yet sublimated it to spark not
only Jung but also her own lover Henry A. Murray, a psychologist who
with her help invented the thematic apperception test (TAT). Douglas
recounts Morgan's own contributions to the study of emotions and
feelings at the Harvard Psychological Clinic and vividly describes the
analyst's turbulent life: her girlhood in a prominent Boston family;
her difficult marriage; her intellectual awakening in postwar New
York; her impassioned analysis with Jung, including her "visions" of a
woman's heroic quest, many of which furthered his work on archetypes;
her love affairs and experiences with sexual experimentation; her
alcoholism; and, finally, her tragic death.
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The Life of Christiana Morgan, the Veiled Woman in Jung's Circle
Produktdetaljer
ISBN
9780691236964
Publisert
2021
Utgiver
Vendor
Princeton University Press
Språk
Product language
Engelsk
Format
Product format
Digital bok
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