ABSTRACT
As more and more of C. G. Jung’s innermost work comes out and is examined, particularly with the 2009 publication of The Red Book, his own psychological complexity is apparent. He began to be an unlikely hero of American pop culture beginning in the late 1960s, ten years after his death, as evidenced in one way by the influx of young American students coming to study at the Jung Institute in Zurich. During Sabina’s time at the University of Zurich, Siegfried was performed in the city, and while it is unknown whether Jung attended, Spielrein as a great lover of music, and particularly what she termed “Wagner’s psychological music,” most certainly would have. That Jung himself was ensnared with the fantasy of Siegfried and Brunhilde, is now evident, in entries in The Red Book, although on his part it seems largely unconscious.
