Frances Wickes (born Frances Gillespy,

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, May 5, 1967) was a psychologist and writer.

Biography

A graduate of

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, Wickes was a teacher, writer and playwright for children and teenagers in New York but later became interested in becoming a Jungian therapist, especially for artists, and visited Zurich several times after meeting

Carl Jung Carl Gustav Jung ( ; ; 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, phi ...

in 1920s, with whom Wickes maintained a correspondence. Wickes kept a

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and made conferences, especially at the Analytical Psychology Club of New York. Wickes had a husband, Thomas Wickes (divorced in 1910 and died about 1947) and a son, Eliphalet Wickes (1906–1926). Wickes lived also in California and Alaska. Jung wrote the preface to her second book on the psychological world of children (1927), where Wickes supported the autonomous presence of the child in the collective unconscious, according to the idea of a participation mystique, which

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in 1910 had theorized to exist within primitive societies, Wickes's comparing a child to an individual in training and giving more place to

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and feeling than attention to the real or rational. The book was translated into German, French, Dutch, Italian and Greek. In coming decades Wickes helped found ''Spring'', which bills itself as the oldest Jungian journal, and lectured at various branches of the Jung Institutes. Among Wickes's correspondents are preserved letters to

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(1913–1980),

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(1887–1954) and William McGuire (1917–2009). At death without heirs $1–1/2 million of her $2-million estate was given to the C. G. Jung Institute of

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and the rest to the Frances G. Wickes Foundation (1955–1974).

Works

Non-fiction

''The Inner World of Childhood: A Study in Analytical Psychology''
1927; (with a preface

) New York: D. Appleton and Co., 1931
''The Inner World of Man, with Psychological Drawings and Paintings''
New York: Farrar & Rinehart, 1938
''The Inner World of Choice''
New York: Harper and Row, 1963

Shorter pieces and fiction

Stories to Act
1915 * "The Christmas Jest,
''A Child's Book of Holiday Plays''
1916
''Child's Own Book of Verse'', Vol. 1and 2
1917 (anthology of children's poetry compiled with Ada Maria Skinner)
''Happy Holidays''
illustrated by Gertrude A. Kay, 1921
''Beyond the Rainbow Bridge''
1924
''A New Garden of Verses for Children''
1925 (ed. by Wickes) by Wilhelmina Seegmiller * "Mother Spider," i
''A Child's Book of Country Stories''
Ada M. Skinner and Eleanor L. Skinner (eds), 1925 * "A Question," in ''Spring'', 1941, pp. 107–109 * ''Receive the Gale. A Novel''. New York: D. Appleton-Century, 1946 * "The Creative Process," in ''Spring'', 1948, pp. 26–46
"The Conjure Wives"
(link to audio), ''Stories to Dramatize'', Winifred Ward (eds), Stories to Dramatize, 1952
''Arrow Book of Ghost Stories''
Nora Kramer (eds), 1960
"Wait Till Martin Comes In,"
Wilhelmina Harper (eds), ''Ghosts and Goblins: Halloween Stories for 1965''

References

Sources

Mary Esther Harding Mary Esther Harding (1888–1971) was a British-American Jungian analyst who was the first significant Jungian psychoanalyst in the United States. Personal life Mary Esther Harding was born in Shropshire, England the fourth of six daughter ...

, "Obituary – Wickes, F.G." ''Journal of Analytical Psychology'', XIII, 1, January 1968, pp. 67–69. *

Vincent Brome Vincent Brome (14 July 1910 – 16 October 2004) was an English writer, who gradually established himself as a man of letters. He is best known for a series of biographies of politicians, writers and followers of Sigmund Freud. He also wrote n ...

, ''Jung: Man and Myth'', House of Stratus, 2001 *

Deirdre Bair Deirdre Bair (June 21, 1935 – April 17, 2020) was an American literary scholar and biographer. She won a National Book Award for her biography of Samuel Beckett in 1981. Early life and education Bair was born Deirdre Bartolotta on June 21, ...

''Jung. A Biography''
Boston: Little, Brown and Co., 2003.
"Frances G. Wickes Papers: A Finding Aid to the Collection in the Library of Congress", pg. 1Pg. 2
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