In 1900, Helene Preiswerk fell madly in love with her cousin, a handsome med student named Carl Gustav Jung. 'She is slenderly built, face rather pale, eyes dark with a peculiar penetrating look,' he wrote of her. 'She has no serious illnesses. At school she passed for average, showed little interest, was inattentive. As a rule her behavior was rather reserved, sometimes giving place, however, to exuberant joy and exaltation. Of average intelligence, without special gifts, neither musical nor fond of books, her preference is for handwork-and day dreaming.' But Jung's relationship with Helene was changed forever on a dark August night, when the young doctor humored her by attending a seance she was holding, only to be stunned when 'she became very pale, slowly sank to the ground, shut her eyes, became cataleptic, drew several deep breaths, and began to speak.' From her mouth emerged the voices of the dead and the star-dwellers, weaving fantastic tales of 'secret and open love-affairs,
