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The story of Emma Jung, her marriage to Carl and the early years of psychoanalysis.

Emma Jung was clever, ambitious and immensely wealthy, one of the richest heiresses in Switzerland, when she met and fell in love with Carl Jung, a handsome but penniless medical student. She was only 17, too young to understand Carl's complex personality or conceive of the dramas that lay ahead.

It was a highly unconventional marriage, with many labyrinthine twists and turns. Emma was forced to fight with everything she had to come to terms with Carl's brilliant but complicated character and to keep her husband close to her. His belief in polygamy led to many extra-marital involvements, with women he met when they became his patients. A m茅nage a trois with a former patient Toni Wolff lasted some thirty years. But the marriage endured and Emma realised her ambition to become a noted analyst in her own right.

In the second episode, Emma moves into the lunatic asylum with Carl and begins a new life as the wife of an asylum doctor. She learns from Carl about the powerful force of the unconscious mind, and prepares to be a 'good wife' as recommended by the books and magazines of the time. But it is not easy.

Readers: Deborah Findlay and Henry Goodman

Written by Catrine Clay
Abridged and produced by Elizabeth Burke
A Loftus production for 麻豆社 Radio 4.