ABSTRACT
The first theory of the feminine developed by a woman in Carl Jung’s circle was presented by Toni Wolff to the Analytical Psychology Club in Zürich in 1934. Toni Wolff was involved with Jung throughout most of her life in a complex relationship which included student and analysand as well as “assistant, collaborator, the Other Woman, a femme inspiratrice, soror mystica, and anima” (Corson, 1998, p. 18). She described her theory in a monograph entitled “Structural Forms of the Feminine Psyche.” After its first reading in 1934, the monograph was presented in a more detailed version in 1948 at the C. G. Jung Institut in Zürich. It was published in 1951 and was then printed only privately for more than forty years. It is still an important source for a Jungian theory of the feminine because it was woven from her own subjective experience and her clinical work as a highly regarded analyst as well as her grounding in Jung’s ideas about archetypes and individuation.
