This is a work of fiction based upon a case recorded.

very briefly, by Carl Gustav Jung in his autobiograph-

ical work Memories, Dreams, Reflections. The case his-

tory is undated and curiously incomplete. I have always

felt that Jung, writing in his later years, was still trou-

bled by the episode and disposed to edit rather than to

record it in detail.

I have chosen to set this story in the year 1913. the

period of Jung s historic quarrel with Freud. the begin-

ning of his lifetime love affair with Antonia Wolff and

the onset of his own protracted breakdown.

The character of the unnamed woman is a novelist s

creation: but it conforms with the limited information

provided in Jung s version of the encounter.

The character of Jung, his personal relationships,

his professional attitudes and practices are all based on

the voluminous records available. The interpretation

of this material and its verbal expression are, of course,

my own.

For the rest, every novelist is a myth-maker, ex-