She started analytical training with Jung in 1934 and paid Jung by translating works for him from Greek and Latin texts including Thomas Aquinas’ Aurora Consurgens and Musaeum Hermeticum. Next to her own studies at the University of Zurich, von Franz attended Carl Gustav Jung’s psychological seminars and lectures. von Franz began her studies of classical philology and languages (Latin, Greek) as main subjects and literature and ancient history as subsidiary subjects at the University of Zurich, which she completed “summa cum laude” in 1940 with her doctorate on “ Die ästhetischen Anschauungen der Iliasscholien” ( The Aesthetic Views of the Iliads). Around the age of 18, she and a few classmates met the psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung discussing psychology which highly influenced the young woman.

Gallen. She attended a high school in Zurich, specializing in languages and literature. From 1919 she lived in Switzerland, in the rural Rheineck in the canton of St. Marie-Louise Ida Margareta von Franz was born in Munich, Germany, the daughter of Margret Susanne, née Schoen and Baron Erwin Gottfried von Franz (1876-1944), an Austrian colonel in the general staff of the Austro-Hungarian army.

Marie Louise von Franz, “The Process of Individuation” – Part 3 in Man and His Symbols (1961) Marie-Louise von Franz – Youth and Education “The ego must be able to listen attentively and to give itself, without any further design or purpose, to that inner urge toward growth. Her research showed common themes in tales from many cultures, which she linked with experiences in daily life. Von Franz is renowned for her psychological interpretations of fairy tales and of alchemical manuscripts. On January 4, 1915, Swiss Jungian psychologist and scholar Marie-Louise von Franz was born.

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