Carl Gustav Jung

Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist, founder of analytical psychology (1875–1961)

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Carl Gustav Jung was born on July 26, 1875, in Kesswil, Switzerland. After studying medicine at the University of Basel, he worked at the Burghölzli asylum in Zurich. His meeting with Sigmund Freud in 1906 marked the beginning of an intellectual collaboration that ended around 1912-1913, as Jung rejected Freud's theory of sexuality as the basis of neuroses. He then developed his own approach, analytical psychology, introducing concepts such as the collective unconscious, archetypes, and personality types (extraversion/introversion). A professor in Zurich and Basel, he authored numerous works, including 'Psychological Types' (1921) and 'Modern Man in Search of a Soul' (1933). He died on June 6, 1961, in Küsnacht.

Major works

The Psychology of Dementia Praecox (1907)clinical study
Psychological Types (1921)essay
Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)essay
Psychology and Alchemy (1944)essay
Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1962)autobiography

Key milestones

1900Graduated in medicine from the University of Basel.
1912Intellectual break with Sigmund Freud.
2009Publication of The Red Book (Liber Novus), a long-suppressed manuscript.

Themes

Collective unconsciousArchetypesIndividuationPersonality typesSymbolism and alchemy

Sources: oxfordreference.com · britannica.com

“Somewhere there was once a Flower, a Stone, a Crystal, a Queen, a King, a Palace, a Lover and his Beloved, and this was long ago, on an Island somewhere in the ocean 5,000 years ago. . . . Such is Love, the Mystic Flower of the Soul. This is the Center, the Self.”

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“Where love rules, there is no will to power; and where power predominates, there love is lacking. The one is the shadow of the other.”

— Carl Gustav JungTheme · Philosophy

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“Knowledge rests not upon truth alone, but upon error also.”

— Carl Gustav JungTheme · Knowledge

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