How did carl jung die
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Carl Jung
(1875-1961)
Who Was Carl Jung?
Carl Jung believed in the “complex,” or emotionally charged associations. He collaborated with Sigmund Freud, but disagreed with him about the sexual basis of neuroses. Jung founded analytical psychology, advancing the idea of introvert and extrovert personalities, archetypes and the power of the unconscious. Jung published numerous works during his lifetime, and his ideas have had reverberations traveling beyond the field of psychiatry, extending into art, literature and religion as well.
Early Life
Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung was born July 26, 1875, in Kesswil, Switzerland. The only son of a Protestant clergyman, Jung was a quiet, observant child who packed a certain loneliness in his single-child status. However, perhaps as a result of that isolation, he spent hours observing the roles of the adults around him, something that no doubt shaped his later career and work.
Jung's childhood was further influenced by the complexities of his parents. His father, Paul, developed a failing belief in the power of religion as he g
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Carl Gustav Jung
C. G. Jung (1875-1961)
Carl Gustav Jung was born in the small village of Kesswil near Lake Constance in the North of Switzerland. His father was a Swiss Reformed pastor, and his mother came from a family of pastors in the region around Basel. Many of his experiences as a child would later inform the development of his theories about the psyche, including his own sense of having two distinct personalities—one a normal Swiss child, and the other a deeper, perhaps older, personality—and unusual experiences surrounding his mother and other members of the family. Jung attended university in Basel and graduated with a degree in medicine in 1900. His dissertation on somnambulistic (mediumistic) phenomena laid out his first thoughts on what would become a central element of his theories; the psyche, Jung argued, was seeking ways to move forward, toward new developmental objectives, rather than looking back towards earlier events in the individual’s life.
Following his university education, Jung took a position in the Burghölzli psychiatric hospital in Zurich, unde
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"Man" said Jung, "cannot stand a meaningless life."
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Carl Gustav Jung was born in 1875 to Paul Jung, a poor rural pastor in the Swiss reformed Church, and Emilie Preiswerk, a melancholic who claimed to be visited by spirits.
His paternal grandfather, after whom he was named, was a physician who was rumoured to be the illegitimate son of Goethe, and rose to become Rector of Basel University and Grand Master of the Swiss Lodge of Free Masons.
His maternal grandfather, Samuel Preiswerk, was a theologian who had visions, conversed with the dead, and devoted his life to learning Hebrew in the belief that it was the language spoken in heaven.
When Jung was just 3 years old, his mother had a nervous breakdown and spent several months in hospital. In his memoirs of 1961, he wrote: “From then on I always felt mistrustful when the word 'love' was spoken. The feeling I associated with 'woman' was for a long time that of innate unreliability.”
Jung’s father was kind but weak-willed, and, in Jung’s mind, too accepting of the religious dogma in
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