Carl Gustav Jung

Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and

founder of the school of analytical psychology. He

proposed and developed the concepts of the

extroverted and introverted personality,

archetypes, and the collective unconscious. The

issues that he dealt with arose from his personal

experiences. For many years Jung felt as if he had

two separate personalities. One introverted while

the other was extroverted. This interplay results in

his study of integration and wholeness. His work

has been influential not only in psychology, but in

religion and literature as well. Jung was born on

July 26, 1875 in Kesswil, Switzerland, the only

son of a Protestant clergyman. At the age of four

his family moved to Basel. His childhood was a

lonely one. Jung observed his parents and teachers

and tried to understand their behavior, especially

that of his father. The elder Jung had a failing belief

in religion. Jung could never understand why.

There were numerous relatives on either side of his

family that were clergymen. It was expected of

Jung to continue in the family tradition. Jung did

not decide to follow, instead choosing to attend

the University of Basel from 1895-1900. Before

deciding on medicine Jung studied biology,

zoology, paleontology, and archaeology. His

explorations did not stop with that, he looked at

philosophy, mythology, early Christian literature as

well as religion. His interest in religion could be

attributed to his heritage and watching the demise

of his father. After leaving Basel, Jung became an

assistant physician at Burgholzli Psychiatric clinic

under Eugen Bleuler. In 1902 he obtained his

M.D. from the University of Zurich. His

dissertation was entitled "On the Psychology and

Pathology of So -Called Occult Phenomena".

Through this work one of his basic concepts is

outlined, the underlying wholeness of the psyche.

Jung's first research was conducted in 1904. He

studied word association in patients. He found

groups of repressed psychic content for which he

invented the now famous word "complex." This

study brought him close to the work of Sigmund

Freud. Jung's work confirmed many of Freud's

ideas. Between 1907 and 1912 he and Freud

worked very close. Many believed that Jung

would continue Freud's psychoanalysis, but this

did not occur. For temperamental and differences

over the signific...

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1902 Went to London 1903 Married Emma

Rauschenbach 1904 Research in Word

Association 1905 Started lecturing at Zurich 1907

First meeting with Sigmund Freud 1909 Gave up

work at Burgholzi 1911 Lectured in the United

States with Freud 1911 Elected president of the

"International Psychoanalytic Society" 1912

Publication of "Psychology of the Unconscious"

1912 Split with Freud 1913 Gave up lectureship

at Zurich 1914 Resigned from the "International

Psychoanalytic Society" 1920 Went to Tunis and

Algiers 1921 Publication of "Psychological Types"

1924 Studied Pueblo Indians 1926 Studied the

inhabitants of Mount Elgon in Kenya 1933

Professor of Psychology at the Federal

Polytechnical University of Zurich 1933 Edited the

"Central Journal for Psychotherapy and Related

Fields" 1935 President of the Swiss Society for

Practical Psychology 1937 Visited India 1939

Finished editing the "Central Journal for

Psychotherapy and Related Fields" 1941 Retired

from The Federal Polytechnical University of

Zurich 1943 Professor of Medical Psychology at

the University of Basel 1961 Died in Kusnacht, on

Lake Zurich