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Carl G. Jung

It all depends on how we look at things, and not how they are in themselves. -C.G. Jung

About Me

Jung (yoong), Carl Gustav 1875-1961 (add 100 years to the age next to my photo and that's how old I'd be today). I was born in a village called Kesswil (see also Seedorf) in the Canton of Thurgau in the country of Switzerland. (MORE BELOW VIDEO.)



Thurgau's History: In 1264 Count Rudolf of Hapsburg took over the county. Thurgau was conquered by the Swiss Confederation in 1460 and was ruled jointly by the cantons through a bailiff. In 1798 Thurgau became a canton in the Helvetic Republic. With the restoration of the Swiss Confederation in 1803/04, Thurgau was created as one of its six new cantons.

I studied in Basel and at Zürich. I worked at the Burghölzli Psychiatric Clinic in Zürich between 1902 and 1909. In 1907 I met Freud and became his chief disciple. I was appointed president of the International Psychoanalytic Association on its foundation in 1910 (see photo). But in 1914 I resigned from the association and set up my own practice in Zürich. In 1933 I became a professor at the Zürich Federal Institute of Technology.

For those who knew me, I was an intensely human person, with the capacity to enjoy nature, good food and good company. Physically, I was tall, broad-shouldered, strong, and healthy looking, with a cheerful disposition. I was a mountain climber and expert sailor, and - gripped by the imagination of water from an early age - I always lived next to a river or lake. I was a good listener and conversationalist, but I did not suffer fools gladly. I had a keen sense of humor that was equaled, perhaps, by my quick temper. My power of concentration was prodigious, as my many detailed paintings and encyclopedic knowledge and profuse writings testify.

I graduated from the University of Basel with a Medical Degree. Early in my career, I worked with psychiatric patients at the University of Zürich asylum. I later founded Analytical Psychology. Among my contributions to the understanding of the human mind are the concepts of extroversion and introversion and the notion of the Collective Unconscious. My works include The Psychology of the Unconscious (1912) and Psychological Types (1921).

I collaborated with Sigmund Freud from 1907 until our disagreement in 1914 over the importance of sexuality in causing psychological problems. I studied myth, religion, and dream symbolism, I saw the unconscious as a source of spiritual insight, and distinguished between introversion and extroversion.

I believed the human psyche exists in three parts: the ego (the conscious mind), the personal unconscious, and the collective unconscious. I also believed the collective unconscious was a reservoir of all the experience and knowledge of the human species.

I devised the word-association test in the early 1900s as a technique for penetrating a subject's unconscious mind. I also developed the theory concerning emotional, partly repressed ideas which I termed ‘complexes’. In place of Freud's emphasis on infantile sexuality, I introduced the idea of a ‘collective unconscious’ which is made up of many archetypes or ‘congenital conditions of intuition’. {Reference Gregg Braden's book the Isaiah Effect for present day confirmation of my theory.)

The book that provoked my split with Freud was Wandlungen und Symbole de Libido/The Psychology of the Unconscious 1912. I introduced the concept of introverts and extroverts in Psychologische Typen/Psychological Types 1921. This work also contained my theory that the mind has four basic functions: thinking, feeling, sensations, and intuition. Any particular person's personality can be ascribed to the predominance of one of these functions.

My Father: Johann Paul Achilles Jung (pastor, b. 1842, m. 1874, d. 1896)

My Mother: Emilie Preiswerk (b. 1848, m. 1874, d. 1923)

My Sister: Gertrud (b. 1884, d. 1935)

My Wife: Emma Rauschenbach (b. 1882, m. 1903, d. 1955, five children)


My Interests

The Book is "Introduction to Jung's Psychology" by Frieda Fordham

Below is the Foreword written by Dr. Carl G. JUNG in Kusnacht / Zurich, September 1952

"Mrs. Frieda Fordham has undertaken the by no means easy task of producing a readable resume of all my various attempts at a better and more comprehensive understanding of the human psyche. As I cannot claim to have reached any definite theory explaining all or even the main part of the psychical complexities, my work consists of a series of different approaches, or one might call it, a circumambulation of unknown factors. This makes it rather difficult to give a clear-cut and simple account of my ideas. Moreover, I always felt a particular responsibility not to overlook the fact that the psyche does not only reveal itself in the doctor's consulting-room, but above all in the wide world, as well as in the depths of history. What the physician observes of psychical manifestations is an infinitesimal part of the psychical world, and moreover often distorted by pathological conditions. I was always convinced that a fair picture of the psyche could only be obtained by a comparative method. But the great disadvantage of such a method consists in the fact that one cannot avoid the accumulation of comparative material, with the result that the layman becomes bewildered and loses his tracks in the maze of parallels.

The author's task would have been much simpler if she had been in possession of a neat theory for a point de depart, and of well-defined case-material without digressions into the immense field of general psychology. The latter, however, seems to me to form the only safe basis and measure for the evaluation of pathological phenomena, as normal anatomy and physiology are an indispensable precondition for their pathological aspect. Just as human anatomy has a long evolution behind it, the psychology of modern man depends upon its historical roots, and can only be judged by its ethnological variants. My works therefore offer innumerable possibilities of sidetracking the reader's attention with considerations of this sort.

Under those somewhat trying circumstances the author has nevertheless succeeded in extricating herself from all the opportunities to make mis-statements. She has delivered a fair and simple account of the main aspects of my psychological work. I am indebted to her for this admirable piece of work."

I'd like to meet:


Music:

First, a very special "Thank You" to the Peter Gabriel Tribute Band for changing their 'Add' option allowing all to hear "Rhythm Of The Heat" here, on my page. Their rendition is wonderful. Now the history behind the song and why it's here on my page:

Peter Gabriel's song "Rhythm Of The Heat" (Security , 1982), tells about psychologist Carl Jung's visit to Africa, during which he joined a group of tribal drummers and dancers and became overwhelmed by the fear of losing control of himself. At the time, Jung was exploring the concept of the Collective Unconscious, and was afraid he would come under control of the music, as the drummers and dancers let the music control them in fulfillment of their ritual objectives. Gabriel learned about Jung's journey to Africa from Jung's essay Symbols And The Interpretation Of Dreams (ISBN 0-691-09968-5). In his song, Gabriel tries to capture the powerful feelings the African tribal music evoked in Jung by means of intense use of tribal drumbeats. The original song title was "Jung in Africa".

Movies:

Jung's writing was introduced to Italian film maker Federico Fellini in the 1950s and had an effect on the way Fellini incorporated dreams into films after "La dolce vita".

In the movie Batman Begins, the character of Jonathan Crane, aka "The Scarecrow", is a Jungian psychiatrist and at the same time personifies one of human kind's primal archetypes (the Scarecrow).

Television:

"Television, a new medium, will one day be a great way to entertain all the archetypes. A successful show or series will be one that incorporates characters of all the types working, living, feeling, and thinking together against foes of all. Gene Roddenberry has a clue - maybe he'll make something of it one day." (This is an adlib and not an actual quote - Star Trek did exactly this, whether it was conscious on Roddenberry's part or not we may never know.)

Dr. Niles Crane on the popular television sitcom Frasier is a devoted Jungian psychiatrist, while his brother Dr. Frasier Crane is a Freudian psychiatrist. This is mentioned a number of times in the series, and from time to time forms a point of argument between the two brothers. One memorable scene had Niles filling in for Frasier on Frasier's call-in radio program, in which Niles introduces himself as the temporary substitute saying, "...and while my brother is a Freudian, I am a Jungian, so there'll be no blaming Mother today."

Books:

CARL G. JUNG'S BIBLIOGRAPHY (works arranged by original publication date if known):

• Jung, C. G. (1902–1905). Psychiatric Studies. The Collected Works of C. G. Jung Vol. 1. 1953, ed. Michael Fordham, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, and Princeton, N.J.: Bollingen. This was the first of 18 volumes plus separate bibliography and index. Not including revisions the set was completed in 1967.

• Jung, C. G. (1904–1907) Studies in Word Association. London: Routledge & K. Paul. (contained in Experimental Researches, Collected Works Vol. 2)

• Jung, C. G. (1907). The Psychology of Dementia Praecox. (2nd ed. 1936) New York: Nervous and Mental Disease Publ. Co. (contained in The Psychogenesis of Mental Disease, Collected Works Vol. 3. This is the disease now known as schizophrenia)

• Jung, C. G. (1907–1958). The Psychogenesis of Mental Disease. 1991 ed. London: Routledge. (Collected Works Vol. 3)

• Jung, C. G., & Hinkle, B. M. (1912). Psychology of the Unconscious : a study of the transformations and symbolisms of the libido, a contribution to the history of the evolution of thought. London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner. (revised in 1952 as Symbols of Transformation, Collected Works Vol.5 ISBN 0-691-01815-4)

• Jung, C. G., & Long, C. E. (1917). Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology (2nd ed.). London: Balliere Tindall & Cox. (contained in Freud and Psychoanalysis, Collected Works Vol. 4)

• Jung, C. G. (1917, 1928). Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (1966 revised 2nd ed. Collected Works Vol. 7). London: Routledge.

• Jung, C. G., & Baynes, H. G. (1921). Psychological Types, or, The Psychology of Individuation. London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner. (Collected Works Vol.6 ISBN 0-691-01813-8)

• Jung, C. G., Baynes, H. G., & Baynes, C. F. (1928). Contributions to Analytical Psychology. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.

• Jung, C. G., & Shamdasani, S. (1932). The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga: notes of a seminar by C.G. Jung. 1996 ed. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

• Jung, C. G. (1933). Modern Man in Search of a Soul. London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner, (1955 ed. Harvest Books ISBN 0-15-661206-2)

• Jung, C. G., (1934–1954). The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious. (1981 2nd ed. Collected Works Vol.9 Part 1), Princeton, N.J.: Bollingen. ISBN 0-691-01833-2

• Jung, C. G. (1938). Psychology and Religion The Terry Lectures. New Haven: Yale University Press. (contained in Psychology and Religion: West and East Collected Works Vol. 11 ISBN 0-691-09772-0).

• Jung, C. G., & Dell, S. M. (1940). The Integration of the Personality. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.

• Jung, C. G. (1944). Psychology and Alchemy (2nd ed. 1968 Collected Works Vol. 12 ISBN 0-691-01831-6). London: Routledge.



• Jung, C. G. (1947). Essays on Contemporary Events. London: Kegan Paul.

• Jung, C. G. (1947, revised 1954). On the Nature of the Psyche. 1988 ed. London: Ark Paperbacks. (contained in Collected Works Vol. 8)

• Jung, C.G. (1949). Foreword, pp. xxi-xxxix (19 pages), to Wilhelm/Baynes translation of The I Ching or Book of Changes. Bollingen Edition XIX, Princeton University Press.(contained in Collected Works Vol. 11)

• Jung, C. G. (1951). Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self (Collected Works Vol. 9 Part 2). Princeton, N.J.: Bollingen. ISBN 0-691-01826-X

• Jung, C. G. (1952). Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle. 1973 2nd ed. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-01794-8 (contained in Collected Works Vol. 8)

• Jung, C. G. (1956). Mysterium Coniunctionis: An Inquiry into the Separation and Synthesis of Psychic Opposites in Alchemy. London: Routledge. (2nd ed. 1970 Collected Works Vol. 14 ISBN 0-691-01816-2) This was Jung's last book length work, completed when he was eighty.

• Jung, C. G. (1957). The Undiscovered Self (Present and Future). 1959 ed. New York: American Library. 1990 ed. Bollingen ISBN 0-691-01894-4 (50 p. essay, also contained in collected Works Vol. 10)

• Jung, C. G., & De Laszlo, V. S. (1958). Psyche and Symbol: A Selection from the Writings of C.G. Jung. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday.

• Jung, C. G., & De Laszlo, V. S. (1959). Basic Writings. New York: Modern Library.

• Jung, C. G., & Jaffe A. (1962). Memories, Dreams, Reflections. London: Collins. This is Jung's autobiography, recorded and edited by Aniela Jaffe, ISBN 0-679-72395-1



• Jung, C. G., Evans, R. I., & Jones, E. (1964). Conversations with Carl Jung and Reactions from Ernest Jones. New York: Van Nostrand.

• Jung, C. G., & Franz, M.-L. v. (1964). Man and His Symbols. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, ISBN 0-440-35183-9

• Jung, C. G. (1966). The Practice of Psychotherapy: Essays on the Psychology of the Transference and other Subjects (Collected Works Vol. 16). Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

• Jung, C. G. (1967). The Development of Personality. 1991 ed. London: Routledge. Collected Works Vol. 17 ISBN 0-691-01838-3

• Jung, C. G. (1970). Four Archetypes; Mother, Rebirth, Spirit, Trickster. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. (contained in Collected Works Vol. 9 part 1)

• Jung, C. G. (1974). Dreams. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press (compilation from Collected Works Vols. 4, 8, 12, 16), ISBN 0-691-01792-1

• Jung, C. G., & Campbell, J. (1976). The Portable Jung. a compilation, New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 0-14-015070-6

• Jung, C. G., Rothgeb, C. L., Clemens, S. M., & National Clearinghouse for Mental Health Information (U.S.). (1978). Abstracts of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Govt. Printing Office.

• Jung, C. G., & Antony Storr ed., (1983) The Essential Jung. a compilation, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-02455-3

• Jung, C. G. (1986). Psychology and the East. London: Ark. (contained in Collected Works Vol. 11)

• Jung, C. G. (1987). Dictionary of Analytical Psychology. London: Ark Paperbacks.

• Jung, C. G. (1988). Psychology and Western Religion. London: Ark Paperbacks. (contained in Collected Works Vol. 11)

• Jung, C. G., Wagner, S., Wagner, G., & Van der Post, L. (1990). The World Within C.G. Jung in his own words [videorecording]. New York, NY: Kino International : Dist. by Insight Media.

• Jung, C. G., & Hull, R. F. C. (1991). Psychological Types (a revised ed.). London: Routlege.

• Jung, C. G., & Chodorow, J. (1997). Jung on Active Imagination. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

• Jung, C. G., & Jarrett, J. L. (1998). Jung's Seminar on Nietzsche's Zarathustra (Abridged ed.). Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.

• Jung, C. G., & Pauli, Wolfgang, C. A. Meier (Editor). (2001). Atom and Archetype : The Pauli/Jung Letters, 1932-1958, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0-691-01207-5

• Jung, C. G., & Sabini, M. (2002). The Earth Has a Soul: the nature writings of C.G. Jung. Berkeley, Calif.: North Atlantic Books.

• Anthony Stevens. "Jung, A Very Short Introduction" (1994)

An early writing by Jung, dating from around 1917, was his poetic work, The Seven Sermons To The Dead (Full Text). Written in the persona of the 2nd century religious teacher Basilides of Alexandria, it explores ancient religious and spiritual themes, including those of gnosticism. This work is included in some editions of Memories, Dreams, Reflections.

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