Jung, Carl

Name

Carl Gustav Jung

Introduction

Carl Gustav Jung was a psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, and the founder of analytical psychology born in 1875. His prolific writing, teaching, and practice influenced philosophy, anthropology, archeology, literature, visual arts, and religious studies while he was alive and continue to do so after his death in 1961. Most, but not all, of his hundreds of papers and essays are included in his The Collected Works of C. G. Jung, which spans 20 volumes and tens of thousands of pages.

Career

While studying medicine in Basel, Switzerland, and, a few years later, while teaching and practicing psychiatry at the University of Zurich, Jung garnered international acclamation as an energetic and important researcher. In time, he would, along with colleague Dr. Eugen Bleuler, found the “Zurich School” of depth psychology. His work on word association captured the interest of neurologist Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis, in Vienna, Austria, in 1906. During...