ABSTRACT
Feminist scholars were asking why no Jungian women and few Jungian men, with the exception of James Hillman, had questioned C. G. Jung’s ideas. The women around Jung were undoubtedly creative and intelligent, and, as noted, were themselves victims of the widespread prejudices about women that flourished strongly from the middle of the nineteenth century well into the twentieth and beyond to some extent. But in most of the women’s work unquestioning acceptance becomes apparent, using fairy-tales, myths and even the Brontes, fitting them into sometimes rigid Jungian standard molds. In the reading of many of the books by the Jungian women, one finds a rehash of old, tried, and not necessarily true Jungian constructs. Most of Jungian psychology were analysts too and because of the privilege of privacy an assessment of their skill in that degree is impossible to gauge.
