ABSTRACT
This chapter concludes Part 1 of the book, presenting patients from Jung who are already known in literature and relevant in this context. It can be summarised as follows: Preiswerk, although not a patient of Jung’s, was considered by Ellenberger his ‘paradigmatic patient’, and her case gives us an idea of Jung’s shaping of case material; Sabina Spielrein was Jung’s psychoanalytical test case and opened the discussion about the concept of transference-countertransference; a discussion which was also observed in the case of Hirschfeld. Both cases had impact and possibly changed the requirements for future psychoanalyst, as seen in the training analysis of Van Renterghem. Frank Miller’s case, who like Preiswerk was not Jung’s patient, was used by Jung to present his concept of the primordial ideas, discussing his postulation about a mythological layer of unconscious; with Tina Keller-Jenny, we have a treatment which happened during Jung’s self-experiment, with whom he had begun to use his insights; Christiana Morgan was an example for his later use of the technique of active imagination; Kristine Mann’s case is related to Jung’s ideas about alchemy expressed in her mandala paintings and to the concept of individuation; the case of Wolfgang Pauli was also related to alchemy, but also to Jung’s later development of the concept of synchronicity; and, finally, Catherine Rush Cabot participated in Jung’s inner circle. All these elements are related to the two cases presented in the book.
