ABSTRACT
Jung was not the first to point out the psychological import of Mechthild's work but his conceptions of the animus and of the symbol of Trinity and its expansion into a quaternitarian vision provide a perspective on her work which is peculiarly Jungian. The themes of the divine necessity of creation and the mutual completion of the human and the divine are unquestionably present in Mechthild's work. In these surroundings Mechthild completed the seventh and final chapter of her work. However, the underlying argument of this work is that it was not only to Mechthild's vital interior life that Jung was drawn but also to her experience of a fusion of her being with the being of divinity in a moment of nothingness beyond difference. Jung's treatment of her experience here amplified through Hadewijch and Marguerite reveals significant aspects of the psychological dynamics at work in all three.
