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Carl Jung

Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist (1875-1961) · Switzerland · Doctors · Died at 85

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The Swiss psychiatrist who split from Freud and built his own system around archetypes, the collective unconscious, and individuation - ideas that escaped the clinical world and seeped into literature, religion, and how millions of people talk about personality.

AcademicsWriter / AuthorPaintingPsychologySwitzerlandEurope19th Century

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1961Died6 June 19611938“Emotion is the chief source of all becoming-conscious. There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.”In their wordsPsychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype (1938)

1932“Education to personality" has become a pedagogical ideal that turns its back upon the standardized - the collective and normal - human being.”In their wordsLecture, The Inner Voice, Kulturbund, Vienna (1932); quoted in The Integration of Personality, Farrar & Rinehart, NY (1939)

1928“This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.”In their wordsGeneral Aspects of Dream Psychology (1928)

1916“Man needs difficulties; they are necessary for health.”In their words"The Transcendent Function" ("Die Transzendente Funktion") (1916)

“Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Without, everything seems discordant; only within does it coalesce into unity.”In their words22 October 1916Letter to Fanny Bowditch, 22 October 1916

1913“The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world.”In their wordsThe Theory of Psychoanalysis (1913)

1909Honorary Doctor of the Clark UniversityAward1875Born26 July 1875

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  1. Emotion is the chief source of all becoming-conscious. There can be no transforming of darkness into light and of apathy into movement without emotion.

    1938, Psychological Aspects of the Mother Archetype (1938), Own words

  2. Education to personality" has become a pedagogical ideal that turns its back upon the standardized - the collective and normal - human being.

    1932, Lecture, The Inner Voice, Kulturbund, Vienna (1932); quoted in The Integration of Personality, Farrar & Rinehart, NY (1939), Own words

  3. This whole creation is essentially subjective, and the dream is the theater where the dreamer is at once scene, actor, prompter, stage manager, author, audience, and critic.

    1928, General Aspects of Dream Psychology (1928), Own words

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Honorary Doctor of the Clark University, Clark University1909
Honorary Doctor of the University of Calcutta
Honorary Fellow of the British Psychological Society

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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

Country
Switzerland
Category
Doctors
Type
Doctor
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1875 to 1961 · aged 85

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