Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was a psychiatrist, psychologist, and nonfiction author. Jung is best known for founding the field of analytical psychology.
Life[]
Jung was born in the Swiss village of Kesswil in July of 1875. The grandson of a professor of medicine named Karl Gustav Jung and an academic named Samuel Preiswerk, he was the first child born by his mother to survive longer than a day. Jung believed that he was the descendant of Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, though there is no substantial proof for these claims.
Jung's mother and father fought throughout his early childhood due to his mother's eccentric character. Jung had one of his first mysterious visions (that of a luminous figure with a detached head in his mother's room) around this time. After his mother was hospitalized, Jung was sent to live with his mother's sister - an experience which led him to describe women as "innate[ly] unreliable".
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Writing style[]
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Beliefs[]
Though most of his beliefs mirrored that of Jung, they split (largely due to the end of Freud and Jung's friendship) and their beliefs split at the driving force of humanity, with Jung believing it to be the "life urge" while Freud believed it to the sex drive.
Jung is the originator of the collective unconsciousness and the terms "introvert" and "extrovert".
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Written Works[]
- About the Conflicts of a Child's Soul
- Psychology of the Unconscious
- Seven Sermons to the Dead
- Psychological Types
- Modern Man in Search of a Soul
- Psychology and Alchemy
- Aion
- Symbols of Transformations
- Answer to Job
- Mysterium Coniunctionis
- Flying Saucers
- Synchronicity
- Memories, Dreams, Reflections (with Aniela Jaffé)
- Man and His Symbols (with Marie-Louise von Franz, Joseph L. Henderson, Aniela Jaffé, and Jolande Jacobi)
- The Red Book
- Black Books
Written Works on Jung[]
- Freud and Jung: Years of Friendship, Years of Loss by Linda Donn
- Carl Jung: Wounded Healer of the Soul by Claire Dunne
- Jung the Mystic by Gary Lachman
- Carl Gustav Jung: A Biography by Frank McLynn
- Carl Jung, Hauntings, and Paranormal Coincidences by Doug Dillon
- Jung by Anthony Storr
Fiction Featuring Jung[]
- The World is Made of Glass by Morris West
- Pilgrim by Timothy Findley
- Possessing the Secret of Joy by Alice Walker
- The Interpretation of Murder by Jed Rubenfeld
See Also[]
- Sigmund Freud
- Hermann Hesse
- Laurens van der Post
Sources[]
- Wikipedia