More from Jung`s Life

Emma & Gustav Jung
the Psychoanalitic Congress 1911

In 1903, Jung married Emma Rauschenbach, who came from a wealthy family in Switzerland. They had five children: Agathe, Gret, Franz, Marianne, and Helene. Their marriage lasted until Emma's death in 1955,

Our main task, Jung believed, is to discover and fulfill our deep innate potential, much as the acorn contains the potential to become the oak, or the caterpillar to become the butterfly.

• Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health. Mistakes are, after all, the foundations of truth, and if a man does not know what a thing is, it is at least an increase in knowledge if he knows what it is not.

• We cannot change anything unless we accept it. Condemnation does not liberate, it oppresses. When an inner situation is not made conscious, it appears outside as 'fate'.