ABSTRACT

In 1928 after reading C. G. Jung’s essay “Woman in Europe,” Barbara Hannah went to Zurich to meet Jung. When she left America and went to Zurich to live with her businessman husband, one of the first things Mary Bancroft did was go to a series of lectures Jung was giving at the Eidengenossische Hochschule to see who he was before she made a commitment to analysis. The fact that Jung was also in on the information with Dulles’ knowledge should stop once and for all the persistent rumors that Jung was a Nazi sympathizer. Bancroft stayed on in Zurich until after the end of the Second World War, staying in constant touch with Jung. Eventually she moved to New York and became a staunch supporter of the Jung Institute there. Like many of the early followers of Jung, Lucile Elliott began her career as a medical doctor, graduating with a medical degree from the University of California in 1924.