# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
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# Generated: 2026-08-31T16:44:51.564Z

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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Carl Gustav Jung was born 26 July 1875 and worked as a research scientist at the Burghölzli psychiatric hospital in Zurich under Eugen Bleuler. He developed a friendship and lengthy correspondence with Freud, who saw the younger Christian-raised Jung as the heir to psychoanalysis and a hedge against rising antisemitism in Europe; Freud secured Jung's appointment as president of the newly founded International Psychoanalytical Association. But Jung's research and vision made it difficult to follow Freud's doctrine, and the painful split led Jung to establish analytical psychology as a separate system. He created concepts like synchronicity, the psychological complex, extraversion and introversion, and individuation — the lifelong process of differentiating the self from conscious and unconscious elements, which he considered the main task of human development. His 1926 treatment of Rowland Hazard, rooted in the conviction that alcoholics may recover through a vital spiritual experience, set in motion the chain of events that led to Alcoholics Anonymous. A prolific author of over twenty books, illustrator, craftsman, and builder, Jung died 6 June 1961, with many w