Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology.
Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. ◦
He worked as a research scientist under Eugen Bleuler. ◦
During this time, he came to the attention of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. ◦
The two men conducted a lengthy correspondence and collaborated, for a while, on a joint vision of human psychology. ◦
At age 84 in 1959, he surveyed his life and extraordinarily influential career in an archival interview for the BBC series Face to Face, just two years before his death. ◦
He had 19 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren. ◦
He was eleven years old the first time he was aware that he was the subject separated from the rest of his reality. ◦
Jung held that what you resist not only persists but will grow in size. ◦
He believed every human life contains a potential, and if that potential is not fulfilled, then that life was wasted. ◦
He warned that the world will ask you who you are, and if you do not know, the world will tell you. ◦
He asserted that he was not what happened to him, but what he chose to become. ◦
He stated, "Now I know, I don’t need to believe" ◦
He recounted, "I came out of the fog and said. I am what I am. Then I thought: What have I been before?" ◦
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Jung recounted that he was eleven years old the first time he was aware that he was the subject separated from the rest of his reality. ◦
He remembered the precise moment walking to school when a thick fog enveloped him, and as he came out of that fog, he also went out of his mental mist and was fully aware of his existence. ◦
He viewed resistance as something that not only persists but grows in size. ◦
He distinguished between what happens to a person and what they choose to become. ◦
Jung founded analytical psychology. ◦
His work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy and religious studies. ◦
He worked as a research scientist under Eugen Bleuler. ◦
He collaborated with Sigmund Freud for a while on a joint vision of human psychology. ◦
During a 1959 interview with John Freeman at age 84, when asked how it feels to be a grandfather with 19 grandchildren and eight great-grandchildren, Jung replied, "Of course, it’s nice to know that all those people came out of yourself." ◦
An observer of the interview described him as "a cracker." ◦
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