But at a certain juncture in his so-called encounter with the unconscious, he had a crisis. For help, he turned to a former patient of his named Antonia ("Toni") Wolf (1888-1952). She was somehow able to help him get through the crisis he had experienced as a result of his extraordinary self-experimentation. As a result of her helping him through that crisis, the two of them were close the rest of her life.
In the course of his extraordinary self-experimentation, Jung encountered an enormous number of visual and auditory hallucinations. He wrote out his recollections of many of those experiences. But then he transcribed many of his written accounts into "fair" copies in calligraphy -- which look like medieval illuminated manuscripts. In addition, he used his artistic talents to make painting of some of the imagery in his visual hallucinations.
In short, Jung used three different ways to process and work through his self-induced hallucinations:
(1) he talked about them with Toni Wolff;
(2) he wrote out a rough draft and then made a fair copy of the same material in calligraphy; and
(3) he also made works of art representing certain key imagery from his visual hallucinations.
Jung may have also written about some of his experiences during his encounter with the unconscious in letters to Toni Wolff. But if he did, those letters have not come down to us.
In any event, because of the extent of Jung's self-experimentation over a period of years, he had a lot of material to work through.
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