19 Facts About Toni Wolff

Toni Anna Wolff was a Swiss Jungian analyst and a close collaborator of Carl Jung.

Toni Wolff's best-known paper is an essay on four "types" or aspects of the feminine psyche: the Amazon, the Mother, the Hetaira, and the Medial Woman.

Toni Wolff was born in 1888, the eldest of three daughters of a wealthy Zurich family.

However, Toni Wolff pursued her studies by enrolling in classes as a non-matriculating student.

In December 1909, at age 21, Toni Wolff's father died, and she became acutely depressed.

Toni Wolff entered analysis with Jung on 20 September 1910, and almost immediately Jung was impressed by her intellect.

Toni Wolff became one of "a long line of women who gravitated to Jung because he allowed them to use their intellectual interests and abilities in the service of analytical psychology".

Toni Wolff assisted Jung with psychology-related research and accompanied him, along with his wife, Emma, and a group of other colleagues, to a psychoanalytic conference in Weimar, Germany, in 1911.

Toni Wolff became a highly regarded analyst, second in renown only to Jung within the early Jungian community.

Jung Institute of Zurich opened in 1948, Toni Wolff taught training seminars for the analytical candidates.

Toni Wolff smoked all of her life, which took its toll on her health.

Toni Wolff died suddenly on 21 March 1953, of unknown causes, possibly a heart attack, at the age of 64.

Toni Wolff's final resting place is in Zurich's Enzenbuhl cemetery.

The intensity of Jung's relationship with Wolff initially caused tensions in his marriage, but eventually an understanding of sorts was reached, as it became abundantly clear that Jung would not give up either his wife or Toni, whom he called his "second wife".

Toni Wolff had been looking for an "Anima woman", and Wolff fit the role well.

Jaffe later explained that Toni Wolff was Jung's "helper in the intellectual penetration of the world of psychic images".

Toni Wolff would have used me just for translating, and he would have confided in her.

Toni Wolff was too much a slightly conventional Christian, and she refused to follow him.

Just before his death, he told his close acquaintance, Laurens van der Post, that Toni Wolff had supplied the "fragrance" of his life, while his wife, Emma, had supplied "the foundation".