Marie-Louise von Franz

Marie-Louise von Franz (1915 to 1998) was a German-born Swiss Jungian analyst and scholar, known for her psychological interpretations of fairy tales and of alchemical manuscripts. Born in Munich, she grew up in Switzerland, met Carl Jung in 1933 at the age of eighteen, began analytical training with him in 1934 and collaborated with him until his death in 1961. She studied classical philology and languages at the University of Zurich, translated Greek and Latin alchemical texts for Jung and wrote a commentary on the manuscript Aurora Consurgens. Her work was shaped by the experience Jung termed the objective psyche or collective unconscious, which she treated as an autonomous reality acting independently of consciousness.