Ī third field of interest and research was synchronicity, psyche and matter, and numbers. In Man and His Symbols she wrote:Īctive imagination is a certain way of meditating imaginatively, by which one may deliberately enter into contact with the unconscious and make a conscious connection with psychic phenomena. Active imagination may be described as conscious dreaming. Marie-Louise von Franz lectured in 1969 about active imagination and alchemy and also wrote about it in Man and His Symbols. It resembles in many aspects the active imagination discovered by C. For alchemists, imaginatio vera was an important approach to matter. During her last years of life, she commented on the Arabic alchemical manuscript of Muḥammad Ibn Umail Hal ar-Rumuz (Solving the Symbols). She edited, translated and commented on Aurora Consurgens, attributed to Thomas Aquinas, on the problem of opposites in alchemy. Īnother field of interest and writing was alchemy, which von Franz discussed from the Jungian psychological perspective. She amplified the themes and characters of these tales and focused on subjects such as the problem of evil, the changing attitude towards the female archetype. She wrote more than 20 books on analytical psychology, most notably on fairy tales as they relate to archetypal psychology and depth psychology. In 1987, she claimed to have interpreted over 65,000 dreams.
įrom 1942 on until her death, Marie-Louise von Franz practised as an analyst, mainly in Küsnacht, Switzerland. Von Franz worked with Carl Jung, whom she met in 1933 and with whom she collaborated until his death in 1961. She worked to understand the reality of this autonomous psyche acting independently from consciousness. The experience that Jung termed "objective Psyche" or " collective unconscious" marked her life and work as well as her way of living. She offered support for the theory that the Christian-alchemical text might have been dictated by Thomas Aquinas himself. Not only did she translate works, she also commented on the origin and psychological meaning of Aurora Consurgens. Their collaboration was especially close in the field of alchemy. Jung, which continued until his death in 1961. This was the beginning of a long-standing collaboration with C.G. As many of its passages were of Islamic and Persian origin, von Franz took up Arabic as study subject at university. Among others, she translated two major alchemical manuscripts: Aurora Consurgens, which has been attributed to Thomas Aquinas, and Musaeum Hermeticum.
Jung for her training analysis, she translated works for him from Greek and Latin texts. In 1934 she started analytical training with Jung. She attended Jung's psychological lectures at the Swiss Federal Polytechnical School in Zurich (now the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich) and, in 1935 and thereafter, also attended his psychological seminars. In addition to her university studies, von Franz occupied herself with Jungian psychology. In the years after finishing her studies, she continued this to support herself, working on fairy tale texts. In 1933, at the University of Zurich, von Franz started studies in Classical philology and Classical languages ( Latin and Greek) as major subjects and in literature and ancient history as minor subjects.ĭue to her father's major financial loss in the early 1930s, she had to self-finance her tuition, : 135 by giving private lessons as a tutor in Latin and Greek for gymnasium and university students.
Studies, lean times and private tutoring The psychological, inner world with its dreams and myths was as real as the outer world. von Franz understood, that there are two levels of reality. When Jung commented on a "mentally ill woman, who lived on the moon" : 18 M.-L. : 135Īt the meeting, Jung and the pupils discussed psychology. For von Franz, this was a powerful and "decisive encounter of her life", as she told her sister later the same evening. In Zurich, at the age of 18, in 1933, when about to finish secondary school, von Franz met the psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung when, together with a classmate and nephew of Jung's assistant Toni Wolff, she and seven boys she had befriended were invited by Jung to his Bollingen Tower near Zurich. Three years later, her parents moved to Zurich as well. From 1928 on, she lived in Zurich, together with her elder sister, so that both could attend a high school (gymnasium) in Zurich, specializing in languages and literature. Īfter World War I, in 1919, her family moved to Switzerland, near St. Marie-Louise Ida Margareta von Franz was born in Munich, Germany, the daughter of a colonel in the Austrian army. Marie-Louise von Franz (4 January 1915 – 17 February 1998) was a Swiss Jungian psychologist and scholar, known for her psychological interpretations of fairy tales and of alchemical manuscripts. Psychological interpretation of fairy tales and of alchemy
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