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JUNG, Emma (1882-1955). Six autograph letters signed to Sigmund Freud, Ksnacht, 8 and 16 March 1910, 30 October 1910 [1911], 14 and 24 November 1911 and 10 September n.y. [1911], written on bifolia, 29 pages, 8vo . The letters of 8 and 16 March 1910 refer to the arrangements for the Second Psychoanalytic Congress at Nuremberg (of which Jung was organiser), to be held at the end of the month, the first announcing Jung's sudden departure to see a patient in Chicago (the wealthy industrialist, Harold McCormick), and re-assuring Freud about his arrangements to return in time for the conference, 'Er lsst Sie aber dringen bitten, sich ja wegen Nrnberg nicht zu beunruhigen da er ganz sicher dort sein werde', also asking about the lecture Freud will give. The following week, Emma declines Freud's kind offer of help because Dr Honegger (Jung's new assistant) is helping her, reporting also that America has lost its attraction for Jung. The three letters of October-November 1911 are more revealing and often extremely frank, discussing Jung's growing estrangement from Freud, and her own unhappiness. She summons her courage to write without her husband's knowledge, and at the prompting of her unconscious, after Freud's visit to Zurich, '... ich folge damit der Stimme meines Unbewussten, der ich schon so oft recht geben musste u. die mich hoffentlich auch diesmal nicht irrefhrt', describing herself as tormented at the thought of difficulties in the relationship of Freud with Jung, and speculating that he is not in agreement with Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido (Transformations and Symbols of the Libido), urging him to tell her what is wrong, and believing that his 'resignation' relates to his spiritual son ('Ihre geistigen Shne') as well as his real children. On 14 November [1911] she writes in reply to a letter from Freud evidently written in annoyance at a letter of hers dated 6 November (not present, but published), apologising for her projection of a father-image on to him, 'Ich kann jetzt nur bitten u. hoffen, dass Ihr Urteil nicht zu scharf ausfalle', and denying that she was critical of Freud's children. Discussing Jung's anxiety about his work, she suggests that his fear of Freud's opinion is a pretext for not going on with his self-analysis. On 24 November, she writes of herself and her relationship with her husband, 'Die Frauen sind natrlich alle verliebt in ihn u. bei den Mnnern werde ich als Frau des Vaters oder Freundes sowieso sofort abgesperrt [...] aber wie soll ich das nur machen' (Naturally the women are all in love with him and with the men I am instantly cordoned off as the wife of the father or friend ... what am I to do?). The letter of 10 September [1912] (incorrectly dated 1910 in a different hand) informs Freud that the offprints of Part II of Wandlungen und Symbole are out, and sympathises on the illness of Frau Hollitscher (his daughter, Mathilda). Emma Jung, born Rauschenbach, married Jung in 1903. Her considerable fortune enabled him to sever his ties with the Burghlzi Hospital and the world of academe. She first met Sigmund Freud when he stayed at the Jungs' apartment in Burghlzi in 1908, and later described him as delightful, recording that she even told him about her own troubles. She sensed the approaching rift between him and her husband during Freud's visit to Ksnacht in September 1911, when James Putnam was also in Zurich, and wrote to Ferenczi as well as to Freud attributing the coolness partly to Jung's impatience with Freud's authority and partly to their disagreement about the libido theory. The unhappiness of her letter of 24 November 1911 reflects her understandable jealousy of Jung's numerous female admirers and his infidelities - he was at the time embarking on an affair with Toni Wolff. The content of Emma's letters to Freud was, as she several times mentions in them, kept from her husband, and Freud preserved them separately from those by Jung (W. McGuire, The Freud-Jung Letters , 1974, pa