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Carl Jung, in full Carl Gustav Jung (born July 26, 1875, Kesswil, Switzerland—died June 6, 1961, Küsnacht), Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist who founded analytic psychology, in some aspects a response to Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis. Jung proposed and developed the concepts of the extraverted and the introverted personality, archetypes, and the collective unconscious. His work has been influential in psychiatry and in the study of religion, literature, and related fields.

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Biography: Carl Jung did not intend to spend his life practicing psychiatry, but he had such an interest in it that he realized it was the occupation he should have. In 1895, Jung began his medical studies. He began his medical …show more content…

He held important positions in the psychoanalytic movement and was widely thought of as the most likely successor to the founder of psychoanalysis. But this was not to be the outcome of their relationship. Partly for temperamental reasons and partly because of differences of viewpoint, the collaboration ended. At this stage Jung differed with Freud largely over the latter’s insistence on the sexual bases of neurosis. A serious disagreement came in 1912, with the publication of Jung’s Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido (Psychology of the Unconscious, 1916), which ran counter to many of Freud’s ideas. Although Jung had been elected president of the International Psychoanalytic Society in 1911, he resigned from the society in …show more content…

Jung has devoted his life to clinical practice and the development of psychological theories, but also explored other areas of the humanities: from the study of comparative religion, philosophy, and sociology to criticism art and literature. We owe him the concepts of “archetype,” “collective unconscious,” and “synchronicity.”

Founding father of the cultural psychology, he gathered around his works generations of therapists, analysts, and artists. Despite the controversy regarding his relations with the Nazi regime (his role as a secret agent of the Allies long remained unknown), Jung has profoundly influenced the social sciences in the twentieth century.

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Carl Gustav Jung was a pioneer of depth psychology emphasizing the relationship between the structure of the psyche (that is to say, the “soul ” in the Jungian vocabulary) and its productions and cultural events. He introduced his method of social science concepts drawn from the fields of knowledge as diverse as anthropology, chemistry, the study of dreams, mythology and religion, which enabled him to grasp the “reality of the soul.” If Jung was not the first to study dreams, his contributions in this area have been

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