AustLit

Foreword: When Sandra Shotlander first mentioned Blind Salome to me in the winter of 1983, she said she was going to write a play about Carl Jung, Emma Jung and Toni Wolf. Althhough these individuals have receded into the background, nevertheless it is the dynamics of their relationships with one another that provide the basis for the characters in the play. In addition, psychiatry provides the intellectual framework.

In writing the play, Sandra was searching for a way to comment upon Jungian theories of the unconscious, and in particular the part played by the 'anima' (represented, according to Jung, in his own life by fellow analyst and lover, Toni Wolf.) ...Sandra Shotlander, in Blind Salome, challenges these theories. She suggests that men may be chasing a hidden, ungraspable entity in seeking solace in women and in the idea of the 'anima', but women have no such desire to seek out their animus....Susan Hawthorne. Melbourne, 1985.