by Michel Weber
« Christiana Morgan (1897–1967) », in Michel Weber and William Desmond, Jr. (eds.), Handbook of Whiteheadian Process Thought, Frankfurt / Lancaster, ontos verlag, Process Thought X1 & X2, 2008, II, pp. 465-468
Christiana Morgan, née Drummond Councilman, meets William Otho Potwin Morgan (1895–1934) in 1917 and marries him in... more
Christiana Morgan, née Drummond Councilman, meets William Otho Potwin Morgan (1895–1934) in 1917 and marries him in 1919. They then move into 985 Memorial Drive in Cambridge
(a few years later, the Whiteheads will live into the same building, now destroyed, 984 Memorial Drive). In 1923, she meets Henry Alexander Murray (1893–1988), a married
biochemist of the Rockfeller Institute. In 1927, following Jung’s advice gathered in Zürich, they become lovers to unlock their unconscious and their creativity. Jung’s goal was to transform
Morgan into an erotic muse to serve both himself and Murray (in that order). In 1935, Chr. Morgan, who held only a nurse degree delivered by New York’s YWCA during the war,
becomes a “research fellow” in Radcliffe College. Besides, Murray, probably Chr. Morgan, and
perhaps W. Morgan, followed some of Whitehead’s classes in the years 1927–1937.
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