JUNG, Dr. C.G. Arranged by Members of the Class

Notes on the Seminar in Analytical Psychology Conducted By Dr. C.G. Jung Zurich March 23 - July 6, 1925

First edition. Quarto. Multigraphed sheets spiral bound in unprinted stiff card covers. 227pp. (complete). Foreword by Cary F. de Angulo. Ownership signature of Kristine Mann with a New York address written on the titlepage, her pencil notes in the text, spirals a bit rusted, first couple of pages partially pulled away from the spirals, a sound, about very good copy of this verbatim transcription from notes of Jung's Seminar. An important association copy. The Kristine Mann Library of the Analytical Psychology Club at the C.G. Jung Center of New York is named after Dr. Mann, one of the first women psychoanalysts in the United States, and who was also one of the founders of the Analytical Psychology Club of New York in 1936. Dr. Mann is widely believed to be "Miss X," the subject of Jung's "A Study in the Process of Individuation," in which he interprets a series of 24 paintings by Miss X. According to the Jung Center website: "A strong case can be made that Kristine Mann was as great an influence on Jung's connection of alchemy and individuation as was The Secret of the Golden Flower." Mann graduated from Smith College, taught at Vassar, then later studied medicine and psychology at Columbia and Cornell, from where she graduated as an M.D. She had always been interested in women's health and physical fitness (she was the captain of Smith College's first basketball team) and her interest eventually led her to focus on the psychological elements of women's health. During World War I, she worked on women's health issues in industry and war plants. When the war ended, she began analysis with Dr. Beatrice Hinkle, Jung's first American disciple and translator, who was also the first woman to practice as a psychiatrist and analyst in the United States. In 1921, Mann went to Zurich to study with Jung himself. In many ways Jung's study of the paintings of Miss X is considered among his most important work. A wonderful association copy, presumably the report enjoyed very limited distribution in this form.

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