addition of a scroll to the mannequin's case was treated as a solemn ceremonial act to be guarded as an

inviolable secret, c`1.1Orr'the safety of m f life depended on it" (1961, P. 22). The dialogue with the
stone and the creation ofythe wooden mannequin can be seen h as attempts by Jung to concretize and
thereby control his perhaps unsettling sense that he had two personalities. We can think of the
stoneand the mannequin as externalizations of the second personality that Jung was co nvinced that he
harbored. Let us look now at the family environment in which Jung grew up. Perhaps some insights
might emerge regarding the origins of his unusual childhood (and lifelong) experiences. Jung's father,
the Reverend Dr. Paul Jung, had many disappointments. Failing to be-come a university professor in his
field of Oriental languages, he settled for becoming a country parson. His wife was stronger depressed
he and was constantly worried about his health. Jung reports that his father's 73). Toward and morose
personality were due to a deep crisis of faith (1961, end of his life, Jung's father became extremely
hypochondriacal and believed that hesuffered from a variety of diseases. Jung's father also had a more
positive side. Jung described him as tolerant and approachable. His religious views as a pastor of the
Swiss Reformed Church were traditional but not at all fanatical. Jung described him as reasonable and
kind (Jung, 1959). Jung's mother, Emilie, was, on the surface, an opposite personality to his father. S of
Jung's childhood sorrow stemmed from his experiencerwasoffreqsusenydt by disputes. prese. Jung was
convinced that his mother also possessed ory two personali-ties: one, the observable character of the
pleasant, plump housewife. The other personal-ity was that of a witch, prophetess, and seeress who
communicated with spirits. Jung described his mother in this way: By day she was a loving mother, but
at night she seemed uncanny. Then she was like one of those seers who is at the same time a strange
animal, like a priestess in a bear's cave. Archaic and ruthless; ruthless as truth and nature. (1961, p. 50)
The "uncanny" personality in his mother seems to have emerged only at speciatmoments. "She would
then speak as if talking to herself, but what she said was aimed at me and usually struck to the more of
my being, so that I was stunned into silence" (1961, p. 49). Early on Jung decided to keep his own inner
life hidden from his mother because he was unsure just how much contrathe uncanny personality
exerted over the housewife per-sonality (cf. Atwood & Stolorow, 1977b, p. 199). Jung's propensity for
endowing people with two personalities may have had its ori-gins in his need to cope with feelings of
vulnerability. His mother's uncanny personality emerged frequently when she was scolding young Carl
or trying to instill in himg oo d manners so that he would not embarrass the family with friends. It may
have been easier for him to believe that a second personality within his mother administered these
lessons Likewise, his conviction that he himself consisted of two different individuals seems to. have
emerged originally during a scolding he received from a friend's father for some misbehavior related to
the man's boat. . . . 1 was seized with rage that this fat, ignorant boor [i.e., the friend's father] should
dare to instill ME. This ME was not only grown up, but important, an authority, a person with office and
dignity, an old man, an object of respect and awe. Yet the contrast with reality was so grotesque that in
the midst of my fury I suddenly stopped myself, for the question rose to my lips: "Who in the world are
you. anyway?" ... Then, to my intense confusion, occurred to me that I was actually two different
persons. One of them was the schoolboy who could not grasp algebra .d was for from sure of himself;
the other was important, high authority, a man not to be trifled with.... This "other" was an old man who
lived' the 18th century, wore buckled shoes and a white wig, and went driving in a fly ' • in concave rear
wheels.... (Sung. '961. p. 34)