Lucy Heyer-Grote, Hapless Hagiographer of C. G. Jung With a Hitherto Unpublished Memory of Jung's Infancy

In 1952, after a long period of reluctance, C. G. Jung accepted the idea that a biography should be dedicated to his life and work. This book, which was never completed, was to be written by a German-Swiss psychotherapist, Lucy Heyer-Grote (1891-1991), ex-wife of his former disciple G. R. Heyer. The draft of this authorized biography, considered lost, was recently found in the archives of the University of Basel. This paper aims to shed light on the reasons for the failure of this project, which are not only due to Jung's about-face. It concludes with an account of an unknown event from Jung's infancy that is revealed in the first chapter of this unpublished document and draws conclusions about what such a discovery implies.