Carl Gustav Jung

Carl Gustav Jung was born in 1875 in Kesswil, Switzerland, the son of a Protestant pastor, and grew up near Basel. He studied medicine at the University of Basel and in 1900 began work at the Burghölzli psychiatric hospital in Zurich under Eugen Bleuler, where he studied patients with schizophrenia, then called dementia praecox, and developed word-association tests. His book The Psychology of Dementia Praecox (1907) drew Sigmund Freud's attention, and the two worked closely until they broke with each other in 1913 over theory. Jung then went through a period of intense inner experiences, which he recorded in what became The Red Book. He founded what he called analytical psychology, with ideas such as the collective unconscious, archetypes, and introverted and extraverted personality types. He traveled to Africa, India and the American Southwest and wrote on religion, myth, alchemy and dreams. He taught for many years in Zurich and died at his home in Küsnacht in 1961.

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