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The story of Emma and Carl Jung's highly unconventional marriage, their romantic relationship with Freud and their part in the early years of psychoanalysis. Emma Jung was brilliant, ambitious and immensely wealthy, one of the richest heiresses in Switzerland when, aged 17, she fulfilled and fell in love with Carl Jung, a attractive, penniless medical university student. Determined to talk about his daring life and to continue her own studies, she was too young to understand Carl's sophisticated personality or conceive the dramas that lay down ahead. Labyrinths says the storyline of the Jungs' unconventional marriage and their camaraderie and, following publication of Jung's The Psychology of the Unconscious, succeeding rift with Freud. It traces Jung's development of expression relationship, notions of the archetype, the collective unconscious, the concepts of extraversion and introversion and the role played out by both Carl and Emma in the early development of the scandalous new psychoanalysis movement. In its many twists and turns, the Jung marriage was indeed labyrinthine, and Emma was obligated to deal with with everything she had to come quickly to terms with Carl's outstanding, complex character and to keep her husband near to her. His perception in polygamy resulted in many extramarital affairs, including a ménage a trois with a former patient, Toni Wolff, that lasted some 30 years. But the marriage endured, and Emma realised her ambition to become known analyst in her own right.
