Labyrinths: Emma Jung, Her Marriage to Karl, and the Early Years of Psychoanalysis

Anyone who has read a biography of Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist Carl Jung has to have wondered why his wife, Emma, put up with him. Beautiful, intelligent, filthy rich (and with a marriage contract that ensured that wealth would have reverted to her in case of divorce), Emma endured Carl's dalliances with other women, his periodic breakdowns, his frequent long journeys, and his insistence that his long-term mistress, Toni Wolfe, be given equal status in social situations with his wife. This was while she was raising their five children, maintaining a large household, studying psychoanalysis, and bankrolling the whole circus. Unfortunately, documentarian Clay's (King, Kaiser, Tsar) book fails to answer that question, and Emma herself remains a shadowy figure, stoically suffering along in the shadow of the Great Man. Can there be people who are so self-contained and private that they can't be biographized? Emma may be one; the only other attempt, Imelda Gaudissart's Love and Sacrifice, suffers from the same lack of data.