Commentary

In this Commentary on a control analysis conducted by Jo Wheelwright under Jung’s supervision, the author recognizes Wheelwright’s unusual capacity to let a patient’s psyche speak for itself. Despite the theoretical prejudices of the time that a homosexual man was unlikely to have made contact with the anima beyond the mother complex, the author finds anima development to be clearly documented in Wheelwright’s young homosexual patient. The dream material reveals a potential for integrity in the patient’s homosexuality, a possibility only tacitly accepted by the original analyst in 1940.