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First published in Great Britain by William Collins in 2016
Copyright © Catrine Clay 2016
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Source ISBN: 9780007510689
Ebook Edition © August 2016 ISBN: 9780007510672
Version: 2017-08-24
For Gaby
Mini liebe Cousine und Helferin
Contents
‘Their [marriage] partners can easily lose themselves in such a labyrinthine nature, sometimes in a not very agreeable way, since their sole occupation then consists in tracking the other through all the twists and turns of his character.’
Carl Jung
1
On Saturday 2 March 1907 Carl and Emma Jung arrived in Vienna for a five-day visit. They stayed at the Grand, the city’s most fashionable hotel, just a few minutes’ walk from the Opera and the famous Ringstrasse. Accompanying them was Ludwig Binswanger, an assistant at the Burghölzli lunatic asylum in Zürich, where Carl Jung worked as a doctor and first assistant to the director Eugen Bleuler. At ten the next morning the threesome waited to be
