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Christiana Morgan was an erotic muse who influenced twentieth-century psychology and inspired its male creators, including C. G. Jung, who saw in her the quintessential "anima woman." Here Claire Douglas offers the first biography of this remarkable woman, exploring how Morgan yearned to express her genius yet sublimated it to spark not only Jung but also her own lover Henry A. Murray, a psychologist who with her help invented the thematic apperception test (TAT). Douglas recounts Morgan's own contributions to the study of emotions and feelings at the Harvard Psychological Clinic and vividly describes the analyst's turbulent life: her girlhood in a prominent Boston family; her difficult marriage; her intellectual awakening in postwar New York; her impassioned analysis with Jung, including her "visions" of a woman's heroic quest, many of which furthered his work on archetypes; her love affairs and experiences with sexual experimentation; her alcoholism; and, finally, her tragic death.

Introduction PART ONE CHRISTIANA ONE Family Trees and Their Fruit TWO A Turn-of-the-Century Girl THREE "God Help Me, Is All I Can Say" FOUR Like a Stain of Blood FIVE The Clouds of War SIX Maybe Forever SEVEN The Origin of the Hero EIGHT Brother and Sister PART TWO WONA AND MANSOL NINE The Whale TEN Let's Do It, Harry! ELEVEN Thunders and Agitations TWELVE The Red and Gold Diary THIRTEEN The End of the Chase FOURTEEN The Hidden Last Act Acknowledgments Notes Bibliography Index