Carl Jung
Carl Jung
In full:
Carl Gustav Jung
Born:
July 26, 1875, Kesswil, Switzerland
Died:
June 6, 1961, Küsnacht (aged 85)
Subjects Of Study:
collective unconscious
free association
individuation
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Carl Jung (born July 26, 1875, Kesswil, Switzerland—died June 6, 1961, Küsnacht) was a Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist who founded analytic psychology, in some aspects a response to Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis. Jung proposed and developed the concepts of the extraverted and the introverted personality, archetypes, and the collective unconscious. His work has been influential in psychiatry and in the study of religion, literature, and related fields. (Read Sigmund Freud’s 1926 Britannica essay on psychoanalysis.) Jung was the son of a philologist and pastor. His childhood was lonely, although enriched by a vivid imagination, and from an early age he observed ...(100 of 1283 words)