The Collected Works of Marie-Louise von Franz is a 28-volume magnum opus from Chiron Publications. The first volume was released on January 4, 2021 and is to be followed by 27 more volumes over the next 10 years. This page will be updated continuously.
VOLUMES
▫️1 – Archetypal Symbols in Fairytales: The Profane & Magical Worlds (Jan. 4, 2021)
▫️2 – Archetypal Symbols in Fairytales: The Hero’s Journey (Jun. 1, 2021)
▫️3 – Archetypal Symbols in Fairytales: The Maiden’s Quest (Sept. 1, 2021)
▫️6 – Niklaus von Flüe & Saint Perpetua: A Psychological Interpretation of their Visions (Mar. 31, 2022)
▫️7 – Aurora Consurgens (Sept. 30, 2022)
▫️8 – Introduction to the Interpretation of Fairytales & Anima and Animus in Fairytales (Jul. 15, 2023)
▫️9 – C.G. Jung: His Myth in Our Time (Jan. 4, 2024)
Each volume will be available in both hardcover and paperback. Links for purchase are through Amazon US (As an Amazon Associate, Speaking of Jung earns from qualifying purchases). If you would like to help support Speaking of Jung at no extra cost to you and you live outside the US, you can purchase through Amazon Canada, Amazon UK, and Amazon Germany. You can also purchase the books directly from Chiron Publications.
UPCOMING VOLUMES
Additional volumes to be published include: Alchemy; The Way of the Dream; Redemption in Fairytales; Puer Aeternus; The Golden Ass of Apuleius: The Liberation of the Feminine In Man; Divination and Synchronicity; Time, Rhythm and Repose; On Death and Dreams
SPEAKING OF JUNG
▫️Episode 78 ~ Jan. 6, 2021 ~ General Editors Steven Buser, M.D. and Leonard Cruz, M.D. joined us from Asheville, North Carolina to discuss the launch of the series.
▫️Episode 106 ~ Mar. 16, 2022 ~ Jungian analyst Frith Luton joined us from Melbourne, Australia to discuss Volume 6: Niklaus von Flüe & Saint Perpetua: A Psychological Interpretation of their Visions. Frith is a graduate of the Research & Training Center in Depth Psychology According to C.G. Jung & Marie-Louise von Franz in Zürich, Switzerland.
▫️Episode 114 ~ Sept. 28, 2022 ~ Jungian analyst J. Gary Sparks joined us from Indianapolis, Indiana to discuss Volume 7: Aurora Consurgens: A Document Attributed to Thomas Aquinas on the Problem of Opposites in Alchemy – A Companion Work to C.G. Jung’s Mysterium Coniunctionis. Gary trained with Marie-Louise von Franz at the original C.G. Jung Institute Zürich.
T-SHIRTS
Artist Timothy Hull (Ep. 52) has created a Marie-Louise von Franz t-shirt for his Timoteo Tees line and they’re available for sale in his Etsy Shop. Laura wore the shirt in Ep. 119.
AN HOMAGE TO MARIE-LOUISE VON FRANZ
“[I]n my opinion, she was the student of Jung who most clearly understood his thoughts and rendered them in her own books in such a personal manner. We were all fortunate to have received the spirit of Jung from her hands, we who did not have the luck of personally meeting Jung himself.”
The Fountain of the Love of Wisdom: An Homage to Marie-Louise von Franz is a 640-page book edited by Emmanuel Kennedy-Xypolitas. Originally published in 2006, it was re-released by Chiron Publications in 2018 and it is truly one of my favorite books. It includes a chronology, death announcements, obituaries, eulogies, a photo gallery, birthday addresses, personal impressions, book reviews, publishers’ comments, biographic data, and contributions by Jung’s grandson Dieter Baumann, Gilda Frantz, Anne Maguire, Daryl Sharp, Marvin Spiegelman, Murray Stein, and Vreni Suter. The final section of the book includes articles, interviews, forewords, and films with Dr. von Franz.
FOREWORD TO VOLUME 1
❝ During her lifetime Marie-Louise von Franz expressed the wish that her books and essays might one day appear in the form of a Collected Works. As the main heir to her literary legacy, it became the task of the Foundation for Jungian Psychology, Küsnacht, to fulfil her wish.
As a first step, the Board of the Foundation decided to publish all of her books in German in a revised, and in some cases expanded, format by the Foundation’s own publishing house. For her lectures or talks, the Foundation drew upon manuscripts, tape recordings or notes, as far as these were available.
Marie-Louise von Franz left behind a handwritten list of all her publications that she herself had both compiled and commented upon. In it, she indicated which editions in her view best reflected her work. Some were first editions in English or French. In these instances, the revised German editions were adapted to reflect the foreign language publications. The texts she wrote in German were largely adopted as they were.
Occasionally, slight alterations have been made to facilitate both the reading of the text and its understanding. In some places, footnotes have been added to refer to more recent research results, or further explanations have been added in endnotes. In line with the German editions, the Foreword of each volume of the Collected Works in English includes a description of the respective circumstances surrounding its creation and translation.
The Foundation is very grateful to Alison Kappes-Bates, Hirzel, for her adaptation of the existing older English editions to the new, revised German editions. Alison Kappes-Bates, whose mother-tongue is English, was a close companion to Marie-Louise von Franz for almost 20 years, including taking care of her in her final years. Where necessary, Alison Kappes-Bates has provided new, and sometimes first, translations of parts of the German texts. Both her experience in her field of expertise and her closeness to the author ensured a quality of work that reflects the German editions.
After several years of negotiation, the Foundation succeeded in signing a framework contract for the Collected Works with Chiron Publications in Asheville, North Carolina/USA. It is planned for the Collected Works to be published in its entirety within the next ten years. The Foundation would like to thank Len Cruz (CEO), Steve Buser (COO) and Jennifer Fitzgerald (Editor), along with all the Chiron Publications employees who have contributed to the creation of the Collected Works. The Foundation is also grateful to the graphic designer, Martina Ott, Zurich, for her creative ideas and suggestions concerning layout and cover design. The combined efforts of all those mentioned above have made it possible to realise Marie-Louise von Franz’s dream and to publish her enduring works, also for an avid English readership, in a revised and attractive form.
The origin of Archetypal Symbols in Fairy Tales has its own special history. A German philologist by the name of Hedwig von Beit, who had a particular interest in fairy tales but was unable to interpret them, asked C.G. Jung if he might help her to interpret fairy tales in his sense. Jung referred von Beit to the young Marie-Louise von Franz, who took on the task with great enthusiasm. Over a period of eight years, she worked intensively on interpreting over 900 fairy tales submitted by Hedwig von Beit. After taking on the final editing and publication of the three-volume work, and to the great disappointment of Marie-Louise von Franz, Hedwig von Beit published the work solely under her own name. The publication was received enthusiastically in scientific circles.
On Jung’s advice, Marie-Louise von Franz waived taking any legal action in war-torn Germany during the period of its reconstruction.
Thanks to the long-standing efforts of Emmanuel Kennedy, Gommiswald, the successor of Francke Verlag, Tübingen, eventually transferred all publishing rights of the work to the Foundation for Jungian Psychology, Küsnacht. At last, the three volumes could be republished under the name of their rightful legal author by the Foundation’s own publishing house.
Emmanuel Kennedy was responsible for the new German publication of Symbolik des Märchens (Archetypal Symbols in Fairy Tales). In the Foreword, he explains in detail the origins of the work. The English translation of the present volume was provided by Roy Freeman, Lucerne with the assistance of Anthony Woolfson, Zurich. The Foundation is very grateful to Messrs. Kennedy, Freeman and Woolfson for their efforts.
On behalf of the Foundation for Jungian Psychology, Küsnacht, August 20, 2020
PD Dr. Hansueli F. Etter,
President
Archetypal Symbols in Fairytales: The Profane & Magical Worlds, pp. vii-viii
BOOKS BY MARIE-LOUISE VON FRANZ
Alchemy: An Introduction to the Symbolism & the Psychology
An Interpretation of Apuleius’ Golden Ass with the Tale of Eros & Psyche
Animus & Anima in Fairy Tales Edited by Daryl Sharp
Archetypal Dimensions of the Psyche
Archetypal Patterns in Fairy Tales
Aurora Consurgens: A Document Attributed to Thomas Aquinas on the Problem of Opposites in Alchemy
C.G. Jung: His Myth in Our Time
Dreams: A Study of the Dreams of Jung, Descartes, Socrates, & Other Historical Figures
Number & Time: Reflections Leading Toward a Unification of Depth Psychology & Physics
On Divination & Synchronicity: The Psychology of Meaningful Chance
Projection & Re-Collection in Jungian Psychology: Reflections of the Soul
Puer Aeternus: A Psychological Study of the Adult Struggle with the Paradise of Childhood
The Cat: A Tale of Feminine Redemption
The Golden Ass of Apuleius: The Liberation of the Feminine in Man
The Interpretation of Fairy Tales
The Passion of Perpetua: A Psychological Interpretation of Her Visions
The Problem of the Puer Aeternus
The Psychological Meaning of Redemption Motifs in Fairy Tales
WITH MARIE-LOUISE VON FRANZ
Corpus Alchemicum Arabicum: Book of the Explanation of the Symbols of Kitab Hall ar-Rumuz with psychological commentary by Marie-Louise von Franz (This is von Franz’s work on Arabic alchemy.)
Lectures in Jung’s Typology with James Hillman, Ph.D., Jungian analyst
Lectures on Jung’s Aion with Barbara Hannah, Jungian analyst
Light From the Darkness: The Paintings of Peter Birkhäuser with psychological commentary by Marie-Louise von Franz
The Grail Legend with Emma Jung, Jungian analyst
The Way of the Dream: Conversations on Jungian Dream Interpretation with Marie-Louise von Franz by Fraser Boa, Jungian analyst
ABOUT MARIE-LOUISE VON FRANZ
The Fountain of the Love of Wisdom: An Homage to Marie-Louise von Franz Edited by Emmanuel Kennedy-Xypolitas, Ph.D., Jungian analyst
Marie-Louise von Franz: The Classic Jungian & the Classic Jungian Tradition Edited by Jungian analysts James A. Hall & Daryl Sharp
Valley of Diamonds: Adventures in Number & Time with Marie-Louise von Franz by J. Gary Sparks, Jungian analyst
MOVIES WITH MARIE-LOUISE VON FRANZ
Marie-Louise von Franz: Bollingen 1982 DVD from Daimon Verlag with overvoice in English, French and Spanish
Matter of Heart: The Extraordinary Journey of C.G. Jung Into the Soul of Man Documentary film by the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles
Remembering Jung: A Conversation About C.G. Jung & His Work with Marie-Louise von Franz A series of 3 DVDs by the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles
The Way of the Dream: Dr. Marie-Louise von Franz in Conversation with Fraser Boa A 10-hour film series available on 4 DVDs from the Max & Lore Zeller Library at the C.G. Jung Institute of Los Angeles (This film’s transcript was published in book form by Fraser Boa.)