ABSTRACT
C. G. Jung considered Henry Rider Haggard’s She to an example of the visionary as opposed to the psychological mode of composition. This chapter demonstrates that the discussion of the novel in his 1925 seminar, despite the guesswork about Haggard’s life, qualifies the dichotomy by highlighting both visionary and psychological elements. Ludwig Horace Holly’s encounter with Ayesha, Jung’s classic anima figure, resonates on both levels of the unconscious, the collective and the personal. His journey, however, does not lead to individuation because he merely swings from misogyny in England to anima projection and possession in Africa.
