ABSTRACT
In the fall of 1948 in Zurich, after more than thirty years of working in the protected atmosphere of the Psychological Club as a small, closely knit, if sometimes contentious group, shielded from an often confused and hostile public, C. G. Jung and his circle opened the doors to the world. Jung had the last word in many matters concerning the framework. Jung himself chose the first Curatorium, or Board of Directors. Jung, from the beginning, took women seriously, mainly perhaps because of his own psychological makeup, as we shall see. Jung’s vitality, good looks, and impression of being larger than life did not threaten them, and merely added to their attachment to him. As a young American man, Joe Wheelwright, coming to Jung shortly before the Second World War, was indignant about the women who seemed to form a human cordon around Jung. Jung’s psychology stems from an awareness of the mythic material operating in the psyche.
