Jung's Circle of Women: The Valkyries (Jung on the Hudson Books) [Paperback]

Maggy Anthony (Author)

Product Details

• Paperback: 144 pages
• Publisher: Weiser Books; Revised edition (September 1999)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0892540443
• ISBN-13: 978-0892540440
• Product Dimensions: 8.2 x 5.4 x 0.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 8.3 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
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Maggy Anthony was born in Southern California, raised in San Francisco, and now resides in Northern Nevada where she is continuing to write. Presently she is at work co-authoring a book about a large Irish family in Newfoundland with Johanna Reeves Grubb. She also has just finished the first book in a mystery series centered in 1950s Reno and Las Vegas, and is halfway through the second in the series.
During the Sixties she wrote for several counter-culture papers, and attended the C.G.Jung Institute in Zurich. This experience led to her writing of "Jung's Circle of Women" The Valkyries" about the many women Jung trained as analysts and who furthered his work in the field of depth psychology.
In the beginning of this century, 2001, she began writing plays and in 2002 wrote her third play, a one woman show entitled "Impossibly Blonde: Marilyn at 77" in which she played the part of an older Marilyn, speaking about her life with the audience. She put this into a book, with additional material, entitled "Impossibly Blonde: The Genesis of a Play in the Death and Funeral of Marilyn Monroe." The additional chapters deal with her personal experience of having been at Marilyn's home the day after her death, and her attendance, as Press, at the funeral. The book also contains photos by her then husband, Gene Anthony taken at Marilyn's house, then her funeral.
She has lived in Zurich, Paris, Rio de Janiero and the Cotswolds in England, and has taught classes all over the Western United States and New York, in mythology, dreams, the creative process and writing.

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7 of 7 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Rare Opportunity, October 3, 2007

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Maggy A. Anthony "mindalive" (Nevada) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jung's Circle of Women: The Valkyries (Jung on the Hudson Books) (Paperback)

It isn't often that an author is given the opportunity to review her own book. So I thought I would seize it! I actually hadn't re-read my book since the publication almost ten years ago. In the re-reading, I find I wouldn't really change a thing. And since the publication, I have finally felt vindicated in the writing of it by the fact that no other has been written on the subject, and that it is used as a reference in any book on Jung or the women, written since that time. I often wonder what the folks who tried to discourage me from writing it, and even went so far as to make it impossible for me to talk to some of the Jungian women surviving at the time of the writing, are feeling about it now. Of course, because of the age of many I talked to, most are now deceased.
Anyway, for those interested in Jung's dynamic with women, and the lives of the women in his circle during that era, this still seems to be the only reference. I hope readers continue to enjoy it, and writers continue to find it a source of information .

5 of 5 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Fits A Missing Niche In My Jung Collection, June 28, 2010

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Jennifer Peters "artist/musician" (Seattle, WA) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Jung's Circle of Women: The Valkyries (Jung on the Hudson Books) (Paperback)

I happened across this book at the Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles. I'm glad that I did as this book seldom seems to pop up on internet searches for books on Jung. Anthony's book is a fast, engaging read about the women who supported Jung in his research, analysis and ultimately in the creation of the C.G. Jung Institute in Zurich. Luckily for the reader, the author was able to interview many of the women and their family members before their deaths, thus securing the final remembrances of the great man who was Carl Jung. As a student of depth psychology this book provides wonderful research material and even an unanswered query from Anthony in her final analysis of The Valkyries: Why didn't the women stray from the original theories of Jung into unchartered territories? Instead of answering this question herself, she leaves it for the reader to decide.