ABSTRACT
Some of the women, in particular Barbara Hannah, said they were first attracted to C. G. Jung by a magazine article he wrote, “Woman in Europe,” which contained many of the sentiments of the day. In Aion, written in 1951, as referenced by Paul Bishop, Jung asserts, “that the Anima is related to the image of Mother and ‘every mother and beloved is the carrier and embodiment of this dangerous mirage, which corresponds to the deepest reality in a man’”. Even in a near-death experience he described, it was Jung’s connection to the women that had a great deal to do with his survival. In the midst of it, the doctor who had been treating him floated to him in a vision. Jung’s was a deep psychic need on which his creativity and the wholeness of his psyche were dependent. Jung also fulfilled another role, that of shaman, or medicine man of his tribe.
