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The Jungfrauen, also called Carl Jung's valkyries or the maenads,〔F. McLynn, ''Carl Gustav Jung'' (1996) p. 327〕 were a supportive group of women analysts (mainly based in Zurich) who were among Jung's first interpreters. They were early popularisers of his ideas. Central to the Jungfrauen were Toni Wolff, Jolande Jacobi, Marie-Louise von Franz, Barbara Hannah, Ester Harding, and Aniela Jaffé. Other, more peripheral, figures were Kristine Mann and Hilde Kirsch.〔B. Burleson, ''Jung in Africa'' (2005) p. 48〕 The German word "Jungfrauen" means virgins; in the present context, it is a pun. The adjective "jung" means ''young'' and the plural noun "Frauen" means ''women''. ==Public image== Mary Bancroft (who was not a member of the group) described the Jungfrauen as "vestal virgins" hovering around Jung, their sacred flame.〔P. Bishop, ''The Dionysian Self'' (1995) p. 267〕 Aniela Jaffé (who was a member) said at Eranos that they would throw off the stigma of the name of Jungfrau and would hover around Jung like “bees around a honey-pot.”〔A. Jaffé, ''From the Life and Work of C. G. Jung'' (1989) p. 134〕 It has been suggested that Jung's foreign travels in Africa were partly motivated by his desire to escape from the Jungfrauen.〔B. Burleson, ''Jung in Africa'' (2005) p. 204〕 Ernest Jones records an attempt to lighten the mood at the 1913 Psychoanalytic Congress in Munich, when tensions between Freud and Jung were at their height, with the following joke: “Why do certain women go to Freud, others to Jung? Because the former are ''Freudenmädchen'' (prostitutes) and the latter are ''Jungfrauen'' (virgins)”.〔Quoted in F. McLynn, ''Carl Gustav Jung'' (1996) p. 219〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Jungfrauen」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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