Humanity Rising Day 661: The Soul of Toni Wolff and the Magic of the Feminine Psyche

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Since the publication of The Red Book in 2009, Toni Wolff has taken a higher profile. She was the collaborator, friend, lover and guide of Carl Jung. We must be thankful to her for supporting and guiding Jung through his experience of the collective unconscious, recorded in The Red Book. Wolff had a fine and strong intellect, an enormous heart, and an exceptional quality of intuition. She was a collaborator in the dangerous work to uncover the mysteries of the unconscious. Wolff gave Jung boundaries, helped to stop his impetuous temperament from carrying him away. She gave him the human support and courage to make an experiment with his own life. As Helen Luke, the Jungian psychologist said:

No man can safely enter the dark gate of the shadow world without knowing that some deeply loved and trusted person has absolute faith in the rightness of his journey and in his courage and ability to come through.

Toni Wolff was born in Zürich. Her activity with Jung begins at the turn of the 20th Century. At that time, Switzerland had more fierce respectability than Victorian England. Her relationship to Jung was tolerated but disapproved of. Jung insisted on the openness of their relationship, she was more to him than a mistress on the side. They researched together, went on holiday together, they listened to each other’s dreams, went to conferences. For Sunday lunch she visited the Jung household and joined the family openly. Although much younger than Jung, she died before him and seemed forgotten until the deeper biography of Jung emerged many years after his death revealing the crucial role she played in the development of his psychology.

Brenda Crowther, MA initially studied Fine Arts, which included painting and art history and obtained her BA (Hons) in London. She exhibited her work for many years and spent some years in India and Asia studying the ancient sites and philosophies. After a teaching diploma, she taught in Art Colleges and Brighton University, where she was both studio teacher and lecturer in art history. Brenda had been reading the work of Carl Jung since she was 18 years old, and his way of using symbolic images influenced the development of her paintings and attitude. From an early age, her dreams showed that alchemy was her path, and she knew that Jung has researched this intensely.

Many years later she resolved to study the work of Jung formally and to train as a Jungian Analyst. As a Master’s degree was required to prepare for this, she decided to study French Philosophy and obtained her MA from Sussex University. Then the immense study to be an analyst began. This covered the history of religion, the myths and fairy tales of all nations, the origin and development of consciousness, archaic man, alchemical studies, besides the more conventional study of psychiatry and psychological complexes, and of course, case work. The richness of this study ended with a thesis of 50,000 words, which gave her a Diploma as a Jungian Analyst easily described as doctoral level.

At present, she prepares a book on her relationship to nature in both a symbolic and psychological way. She has written many articles and was editor of Harvest Journal for Jungian Studies in UK for six years. Recently she received the honour of the title of Fellow of the Guild of Pastoral Psychology in UK for her continued contribution to the field of Jungian psychology through conferences, articles and seminars.
Co-convener:

Jim Garrison, President, Ubiquity University