Carl Jung

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Carl Jung

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Jung in 1910

Born

Carl Gustav Jung

26 July 1875

Kesswil, Thurgau, Switzerland

Died

6 June 1961 (aged 85)

Küsnacht, Zurich, Switzerland

Residence

Switzerland

Citizenship

Swiss

Fields

Psychiatry, psychology, psychotherapy, analytical psychology

Institutions

Burghölzli, Swiss Army (as a commissioned officer in World War I)

Alma mater

University of Basel

Doctoral advisor

Eugen Bleuler, Sigmund Freud

Known for

Analytical psychology

Influences

Johann Jakob Bachofen,[1] Eugen Bleuler, Carl Gustav Carus,[1] Confucius, Sigmund Freud, Pierre Janet,[1] Immanuel Kant,[1] Laozi, Friedrich Nietzsche,[1] Plato,[1] Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling,[1] Arthur Schopenhauer,[1] Herbert Silberer,[1] D. T. Suzuki, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe[1]

Influenced

Gaston Bachelard, Peter Birkhäuser, Joseph Campbell, Federico Fellini, Hermann Hesse, Ursula K. Le Guin, Terence McKenna, Isabel Briggs Myers, Erich Neumann, Camille Paglia, Jackson Pollock, Laurens van der Post, Marie-Louise von Franz, Karlfried Graf Dürckheim

Spouse

Emma Jung

Signature

Carl Gustav Jung (/jʊŋ/; German: [ˈkarl ˈɡʊstaf jʊŋ]; 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961), often referred to as C. G. Jung, was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology.[2] Jung proposed and developed the concepts of extraversion and introversion; archetypes, and the collective unconscious. His work has been influential in psychiatry and in the study of religion, philosophy, archeology, anthropology, literature, and related fields. He was a prolific writer, many of whose works were not published until after his death.

The central concept of analytical psychology is individuation—the psychological process of integrating the opposites, including the conscious with the unconscious, while still maintaining their relative autonomy.[3] Jung considered individuation to be the central process of human development.[4]

Jung created some of the best known psychological concepts, including the archetype, the collective unconscious, the complex, and synchronicity. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a popular psychometric instrument, has been developed from Jung's theory of psychological types.

Jung saw the human psyche as "by nature religious"[5] and made this religiousness the focus of his explorations.[6] Jung is one of the best known contemporary contributors to dream analysis and symbolization.

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