Their collaboration was especially close in the field of alchemy. Jung, which continued until his death in 1961. This was the beginning of a long-standing collaboration with C.G. As many of its passages were of Islamic and Persian origin, von Franz took up Arabic as study subject at university. Among others, she translated two major alchemical manuscripts: Aurora Consurgens, which has been attributed to Thomas Aquinas, and Musaeum Hermeticum. Jung for her training analysis, she translated works for him from Greek and Latin texts. In 1934 she started analytical training with Jung. She attended Jung's psychological lectures at the Swiss Federal Polytechnical School in Zurich (now the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich) and, in 1935 and thereafter, also attended his psychological seminars. In addition to her university studies, von Franz occupied herself with Jungian psychology. In the years after finishing her studies, she continued this to support herself, working on fairy tale texts. In 1933, at the University of Zurich, von Franz started studies in Classical philology and Classical languages ( Latin and Greek) as major subjects and in literature and ancient history as minor subjects.ĭue to her father's major financial loss in the early 1930s, she had to self-finance her tuition, : 135 by giving private lessons as a tutor in Latin and Greek for gymnasium and university students. Studies, lean times and private tutoring The psychological, inner world with its dreams and myths was as real as the outer world. von Franz understood, that there are two levels of reality. When Jung commented on a 'mentally ill woman, who lived on the moon' : 18 M.-L. : 135Īt the meeting, Jung and the pupils discussed psychology. For von Franz, this was a powerful and 'decisive encounter of her life', as she told her sister later the same evening. In Zurich, at the age of 18, in 1933, when about to finish secondary school, von Franz met the psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung when, together with a classmate and nephew of Jung's assistant Toni Wolff, she and seven boys she had befriended were invited by Jung to his Bollingen Tower near Zurich. Three years later, her parents moved to Zurich as well.

From 1928 on, she lived in Zurich, together with her elder sister, so that both could attend a high school (gymnasium) in Zurich, specializing in languages and literature. Īfter World War I, in 1919, her family moved to Switzerland, near St. Marie-Louise Ida Margareta von Franz was born in Munich, Germany, the daughter of a colonel in the Austrian army. Marie-Louise von Franz (4 January 1915 – 17 February 1998) was a Swiss Jungian psychologist and scholar, known for her psychological interpretations of fairy tales and of alchemical manuscripts. Psychological interpretation of fairy tales and of alchemy

Dr. marie louise von franz