Augusta Faber

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Augusta Faber

Also Known As: "Gustele"
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Death: 1862 (56-57)
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Daughter of (Pastor) Faber
Wife of Dr. theol. Samuel Preiswerk
Mother of Gusteli Augusta Preiswerk; Sophia Preiswerk; Rudolph Preiswerk; Gustav Adolph Preiswerk; Eduard Preiswerk and 2 others

Managed by: Tobias Lukas Jungen
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About Augusta Faber

Augusta (called Gustele within the family) is credited with bringing "the Occult strain" into the family, and was the first to speak of "No. 1 and No. 2 personalities." C.J. Jung later described No. 1 as conscious or conventional, that is, "innocuous and human"; and No. 2 as unconscious, that is, "uncanny...unexpected and frightening."

In Gustele's case, her two personalities were represented by two monks she called the Good Monk and the Bad, who, she insisted, accompanied her everywhere. She also prefigured her grandson C.G.'s conception of the collective unconscious, that portion of the unconscious that is not "personal" and particular, but, rather, an "omnipresent, unchanging and every where identical quality or substrate of the psyche per se."

Gustele earned her husband's respoct when she described various incidents that befell her when in the monks' company in past lives and he verified them in various historical accounts that she could not have read. C.G. Jung remembered this when he began his own investigations into the collective unconscious.

C.J.'s grandfather, Antistes Samuel, had intimate conversation with his dead wife every week at the same time. Gustele had fainting fits of somnambulism, then waking hallucinations and visions. These fits were brought on by something that aroused her emotions.

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