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Carly Jung

Carl Gustav Jung was from Switzerland. His original career revolved around the medical field, since psychiatry was not a prominent career at the time, graduating from University of Basel with his degree in 1900. Yet, his first occupation was in a psychiatric facility at Burghölzli Hospital in which he studied with Eugen Bleuler. In 1903, he married Emma Rauschenbach, in which he had 5 children and, during his marriage, had affairs with other women.

 Jung had written an article supporting the ideas of Freud, which involved the ideas of neuroses. In 1906, Jung sent this article to Freud, which is how their friendship started. With this friendship, Freud had let Jung accompany him to the Clark conference in America. He is now known as a Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist who established analytical psychology. It should be noted that, after the break from Freud and during WWI, Jung was drafted to become an Army doctor, in which he had to better the conditions for soldiers. Although the draft interrupted his work, it did not stop him. Constance Long translated all of his work while in England. During his existence, his work was not published, that is, until his passing. One of his important books, that severed him from Freud, was called Psychology of the Unconscious (1913). Freud was upset with Jung for straying away from Freud’s ideas, so the publishing of this book was the breaking point in the friendship. In this book, Jung talks about how the unconscious mind is divided into two parts, the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious. The personal part holds suppressed wishes, experiences, and motives. The collective part contains cumulative experiences from past generations. The collective part also holds archetypes, which he defined as behavioral predispositions that cause people to behave in certain ways. Archetypes have many parts, but the most important has to do with self and how its purpose is integrating conscious and unconscious. The self is developed by individuation, which is a process where a person accepts their archetypes to form their own personality. However, none of these ideas are what he is known for, simply because none of them are testable so therefore they cannot be proved right or wrong. Jung is really only known for his concepts of introversion and extraversion. Although he didn’t have a huge impact on mainstream psychology, Jung contributed a lot of ideas to the field and it recognized for that.

Benjamin, L. T. (2014). A brief history of modern psychology (2^nd ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.

Timeline: 1913 Carl Jung’s book Psychology of the Unconscious published

This is an opera house called Academie Nationale De Musique, like it says on the building itself, or Palais Garnier. This was taken on July 18 in Paris, France.

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