Carl G. Jung

Carl Gustav Jung

Carl Gustav Jung, (b. 26 July 1875 - d. 6 June 1961), was a Swiss psychiatrist

and sychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. His work has been influential

not only in psychiatry but also in philosophy, anthropology, archaeology, literature,

and religious studies. He was a prolific writer, though many of his works were not

published until after his death. Jung considered individuation to be the central process

of human development. The central concept of analytical psychology is individuation

--the psychological process of integrating the opposites, including the conscious with

the unconscious, while still maintaining their relative autonomy. Jung created some

of the best known psychological concepts, including Jungian archetypes, the collective

unconscious, the psychological complex, and extraversion and introversion.

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C. G. Jung was one of the creators of modern depth psychology, which seeks to

facilitate a conversation with the unconscious energies which move through each of

us. He contributed many ideas which continue to inform contemporary life: complex,

archetype, persona, shadow, anima and animus, personality typology, dream inter-

pretation, individuation, and many other ideas. He had a deep appreciation of our

creative life and considered spirituality a central part of the human journey. His

method of interpretation of symbolic expression not only deepens our understanding

of personal material, opening the psychodynamics of our personal biographies and

dreams, but the deeper, collective patterns which develop with in culture as well.

In his memoir, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Jung wrote that meaning comes when

people feel they are living the symbolic life, that they are actors in the divine drama.

That gives the only meaning to human life; everything else is banal and you can

dismiss it. A career, producing of children, are all maya (illusion) compared to that

one thing, that your life if meaningful. (James Hollis-December 2013)

"The world will ask you who you are, and if you don't know the world

will tell you." - C. G. Jung -