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'''Carl Gustav Jung''' (July 26, 1875 – June 6, 1961) was a [[Switzerland|Swiss]] [[psychiatry|psychiatrist]] and founder of [[analytical psychology]]. He was one of the first and most widely read writers of the twentieth century on the [[psychology]] of the human [[mind]]. His influence has proved as enduring and diverse as that of [[Sigmund Freud]], with whom he worked for a time, although their approaches to [[psychotherapy]] are radically different. Jung regarded the [[unconscious]] as crucial to our [[psychological development]], and he spent a significant portion of his life researching this aspect of life, as revealed in [[symbol]]ic form through [[dream]]s and other spiritual experiences. He regarded his theories as applicable both to those with [[mental health and illness|mental disorders]] and to those who are simply interested in promoting their own psychological development. Jung had many personal spiritual experiences that he wrote about in detail, along with his relationship with [[God]], in his autobiography. However, he did not include explicitly [[religion|religious]] concepts, or any mention of God, in his psychological theories.
'''Carl Gustav Jung''' July 26, 1875 June 6, 1961 ([[IPA]]:{{IPA|[ˈkarl ˈgʊstaf ˈjʊŋ]}}) was a [[Swiss]] [[psychiatrist]] and founder of [[Analytical Psychology]].
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==Life==
  
Often mentioned along with [[Sigmund Freud]], with whom he initially collaborated, Carl Jung was one of the first and most widely read writers of the [[twentieth century]] on the psychology of the human mind. His approach to psychology emphasized understanding the [[psyche]] through exploring the worlds of [[anthropology]], [[astrology]], [[alchemy]], [[dream|dreams]], [[art]], [[mythology]], [[religion]] and [[philosophy]].
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Born in Kesswil, in the [[Switzerland|Swiss]] canton of Thurgau on July 26, 1875, Carl Jung was a very solitary child. He was convinced from childhood that he had two [[personality|personalities]]—a modern Swiss citizen, and a personality more at home in the eighteenth century. He was close to both his parents, and his interest in [[spirituality]] began at home. When he was a child, his mother often read to him of exotic [[religions]] from an illustrated children's book. His father was a vicar, but he was rather disappointed in his father's academic approach to [[faith]].  
  
He was a strong believer in the importance of integration of opposites (e.g. masculine and feminine, thinking and feeling, science and spirituality). Though not the first to analyze dreams, his contributions to [[dream analysis]] were influential and extensive. Although he was a theoretical psychologist and practicing clinician for most of his life, many of his studies extend into other realms of the humanities: from comparative religion and philosophy, to criticism of art and literature. While these Jungian ideas are seldom mentioned in college psychology courses, they are often explored in humanities courses.
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Jung wanted to study [[archeology]] at the university, but his family was too poor to send him further afield than [[Basel]], where they did not teach this subject. Instead, Jung studied [[medicine]] at the University of Basel from 1894 to 1900. The formerly solitary student became much livelier there. Towards the end of his studies, his reading of [[Krafft-Ebing, Richard, Freiherr von|Krafft-Ebing]] persuaded him to specialize in [[psychiatry|psychiatric]] medicine: "Here and here alone (psychiatry), was the empirical field common to spiritual and biological facts." He later worked in the Burgholzi, a psychiatric [[hospital]] in [[Zurich]].  
  
Many pioneering psychological concepts were originally proposed by Jung.  Some of these are:
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In 1903, Jung married Emma Rauschenbach, who was trained in [[psychoanalysis]]. Together they had five children. They were close collaborators until Emma's death in 1955.
* [[Archetype|The Archetype]]
 
* [[Collective unconscious|The Collective Unconscious]]
 
* [[Complex (psychology)|The Complex]]
 
* [[Synchronicity]]
 
  
==Jungian psychology==
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In 1906, he sent a copy of his work on word association to [[Sigmund_Freud]], after which a close but brief friendship between these two men followed (see section on [[Carl Jung#Jung and Freud|Jung and Freud]]).  
Although Jung was wary of founding a "school" of [[psychology]], (he was once rumored to have said, "Thank God I'm Jung and not a Jungian."), he did develop a distinctive approach to the study of the human psyche.  Through his early years working in a Swiss hospital with psychotic patients and collaborating with [[Sigmund Freud]] and the burgeoning [[psychoanalytic]] community, he gained a close look at the mysterious depths of the human [[unconscious]].  Fascinated by what he saw (and spurred on with even more passion by the experiences and questions of his personal life) he devoted his life to the exploration of the unconscious but did not feel that experimental natural science was the best means to this end, identifying instead with the world of dream, myth, and [[psychopathology]]. Ultimately Jung sought to understand psychology through the study of the humanities.
 
  
The overarching goal of Jung's life work was the reconciliation of the life of the individual with the world of the supra-personal [[archetypes]].  He came to see the individual's encounter with the [[unconscious]] as central to this process. The human experiences the unconscious through [[symbols]] encountered in all aspects of life: in dreams, art, religion, and the symbolic dramas we enact in our relationships and life pursuits. Essential to the encounter with the unconscious, and the reconciliation of the individual's consciousness with this broader world, is learning this symbolic language.  Only through attention and openness to this world (which is quite foreign to the modern Western mind) is the individual able to harmonize his life with these suprapersonal archetypal forces.  
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As a boy, Jung had remarkably striking [[dream]]s and powerful fantasies that had developed with unusual intensity. After his break with Freud, he deliberately allowed this aspect of himself to arise again, and gave the irrational side of his nature free expression. At the same time, he studied it scientifically by keeping detailed notes of his unusual experiences. He later developed the theory that these experiences came from an area of the [[mind]] that he called the [[Carl Jung#Collective unconcsious|collective unconscious]], which he held was shared by everyone. In the following years, Jung experienced considerable isolation in his professional life, which intensified through [[World War I]] and his alienation from the psychoanalytic community. His ''Seven Sermons to the Dead'' (1917) reprinted in his autobiography ''Memories, Dreams, Reflections'' (Jung & Jaffe, 1962) can also be read as expression of the psychological explorations of his inner world.
  
"[[Neurosis]]" results from a disharmony between the individual's consciousness and the greater archetypal world. The aim of [[psychotherapy]] is to assist the individual in reestablishing a healthy relationship to the unconscious (neither being swamped by it—a state characteristic of [[psychosis]]—nor completely shut off from it—a state that results in malaise, empty [[consumerism]], [[narcissism]], and a life cut off from deeper meaning). The encounter between consciousness and the symbols arising from the unconscious enriches life and promotes psychological development.  Jung considered this process of psychological growth and maturation (which he called the process of [[individuation]]) to be of critical importance to the human being, and ultimately to modern society.
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Following the war, Jung became a worldwide traveler, facilitated by the funds he realized through book sales, honoraria, and moneys received for sabbaticals from achieving seniority in the medical institutions where he was employed. He visited [[North Africa|Northern Africa]], and then [[New Mexico]] and [[Kenya]] in the mid-1920s. In 1938, he delivered the Terry Lectures, ''Psychology and Religion,'' at [[Harvard University]]. It was at about this stage in his life that Jung visited [[India]]. During his time there he had dreams related to [[King Arthur]]. This convinced him that his agenda should be to pay more attention to Western spirituality, and his later writings show deep interests in Western mystical traditions, esoteric [[Christianity]], and especially [[alchemy]]. A late work revealed his interest in [[Unidentified Flying Object|flying saucers]] as a psychic projection caused by the threatening global situation of his day. Jung continued to write until the end of his life on June 6, 1961.
  
In order to undergo the individuation process, the individual must allow himself to be open to the parts of herself beyond his or her own [[ego]].  In order to do this, the modern individual can pay attention to his dreams, explore the world of [[religion]] and [[spirituality]], and question the assumptions of the operant societal worldview (rather than just blindly live life in accordance with dominant norms and assumptions).
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==Work==
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===Jung and Freud===
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Jung was 30 when he sent a copy of his work ''Studies in Word Association'' to [[Sigmund Freud]] in [[Vienna]]. Half a year later, the then 50-year-old Freud reciprocated by sending a collection of his latest published essays to Jung in Zurich. This marked the beginning of an intense correspondence and collaboration lasting more than six years.
  
==The collective unconscious==
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Jung and Freud rule two very different empires of the [[mind]], and it is the differences that proponents of each like to stress, downplaying the influence these men had on each other in the formative years of their lives. But in 1906, [[psychoanalysis]] as an institution was non-existent. And Jung, who was working as a doctor under the psychiatrist [[Eugen Bleuler]] in the Burghölzli, became familiar with Freud's idea of the [[unconscious]] through Freud's ''The Interpretation of Dreams'' (1900). Freud at that time needed nothing more than collaborators and followers to validate and spread his ideas. The Burghölzli was a renowned psychiatric clinic near Zurich and Jung was an aspiring young doctor there on the rise. Jung's research at the Burghölzli established him as a psychiatrist of international repute. His findings corroborated many of Freud's ideas and for a time period (between 1907 and 1912) he and Freud worked closely together.  
Jung's concept of the [[collective unconscious]] has often been misunderstood.  In order to understand this concept, it is essential to understand his idea of the [[archetype]], something foreign to the highly rational, scientifically-oriented Western mind. Here is a useful analogy: the collective unconscious is the [[DNA]] of the human psyche.  Just as all humans share a common physical heritage and predisposition towards specific physical forms (like having two legs, a heart, etc.) so do all humans have a common psychological predisposition. Our common physical predispositions are determined by part of our DNA, while our common psychological predispositions are termed the collective unconscious.  Like the [[human genome project]] that took on the tremendous labor of analyzing the information stored in the human DNA, Jung took on the task of exploring and attempting to discern the mysteries stored in the collective unconscious.
 
  
However, unlike the quantifiable information that composes DNA (in the form of coded sequences of nucleotides), the collective unconscious is composed of archetypes. In contrast to the objective material world, the subjective realm of archetypes can not be adequately understood through quantitative modes of research. Instead it can only begin to be revealed through an examination of the symbolic communications of the human psyche—in art, [[dreams]], [[religion]], [[myth]], and the themes of human relational/behavioral patterns. Devoting his life to the task of exploring and understanding the collective unconscious, Jung discovered that certain symbolic themes existed across all cultures, all epochs, and in every individual.  Together these symbolic themes comprise "the archetypes of the collective unconscious." .
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In 1908, Jung became editor of the newly founded ''Yearbook for Psychoanalytical and Psychopathological Research''; the following year Jung traveled with Freud and [[Sandor Ferenczi]] to the [[United States|U.S.A.]] to spread the news of psychoanalysis and in 1910, Jung became chairman for life of the ''International Psychoanalytical Association.'' While Jung worked on his ''Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido (Symbols of Transformation),'' the tensions between him and Freud were rising, the nature of [[libido]] and [[religion]] playing an important role. Jung eventually came to believe that Freud's view of the human "unconscious mind" placed too great an emphasis on sexuality in relation to human behavior and to psychological complexes. Jung believed that the unconscious also had a [[creativity|creative]] capacity, serving a positive role essential to human society and [[culture]]. Although Freud at one time had seemed to hope that Jung would carry "Freudianism" into the future there was a parting of the ways. When Jung spoke to Freud of [[ESP|precognition]] and [[parapsychology]], his response was an emphatic "Sheer nonsense!" In 1912, Jung's book ''Psychology of the Unconscious'' overtly set out the difference in his approach to that of Freud.  
  
==The shadow==
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An actual professional and personal estrangement became definitely established in 1913, and Jung resigned from the Psychoanalytic Society in 1914. This separation of two great figures in [[psychology]] impacted not only their own research and theoretical development, but also affected the [[history of psychology|development of psychology]], leading to divergent schools regarding the conception of the human [[mind]] that remain separate to this day.
The shadow is an unconscious complex that is defined as the diametrical opposite of the conscious self, the ego. The shadow represents everything that the conscious person does not wish to acknowledge within themselves. For instance, someone who identifies as being kind has a shadow that is harsh or unkind. Conversely, an individual who is brutal has a kind shadow. The shadow of persons who are convinced that they are ugly appears to be beautiful.
 
  
The shadow is not necessarily good or bad. It simply counterbalances some of the one-sided dimensions of our personality.  Jung emphasized the importance of being aware of shadow material and incorporating it into conscious awareness. Otherwise we project these attributes onto others.
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Contemporary examples include religious zealots who project their own hatred onto other religions or groups, accusing them of the very thing that they are unable to accept within themselves. Another potent example of shadow projection is seeing in another person, with whom one is infatuated, good and wonderful qualities that one refuses to see in oneself. To gain access and awareness of one's shadow, one should carefully consider those qualities in another that repulse or disgust oneself. This can allow access to the underdeveloped aspects of personality that represent the shadow. 
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The shadow in dreams is often represented by dark figures of the same gender as the dreamer, such as gangsters or prostitutes or beggars or liars.
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After his break with Freud, Jung and his followers began the school of analytical psychology. Although Jung was wary of founding a "school" of [[psychology]], (he was once rumored to have said, "Thank God I'm Jung and not a Jungian."), he did develop a distinctive approach to the study of the human psyche. Through his early years working in a Swiss hospital with [[psychosis|psychotic]] patients and collaborating with [[Sigmund Freud]] and the burgeoning [[psychoanalytic]] community, he gained a close look at the mysterious depths of the human [[unconscious]]. Fascinated by what he saw (and spurred on with even more passion by the experiences and questions of his personal life) he devoted his life to the exploration of the unconscious. However, he did not feel that experimental natural science was the best means to this end.  
  
==Anima and Animus==
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Ultimately, Jung sought to understand psychology through the study of the humanities. In his letter to the ''Psychoanalytic Review'' (Fall 1913), he wrote,  
Jung identified the anima as being the unconscious feminine component of men and the animus as the unconscious masculine component in women.  (Many modern day Jungian practitioners believe that every person has both an anima and an animus).  Jung stated that the anima and animus act as guides to the unconscious unified Self, and that forming an awareness and a connection with the anima or animus is one of the most difficult and rewarding steps in psychological growth.  Jung reported that he identified his anima as she spoke to him, as an inner voice, unexpectedly one day.  (Interestingly, Jung's anima voice was the voice of a former patient with whom Jung had an open affair.)
 
  
Oftentimes, when people ignore the anima or animus complexes, the anima or animus vies for attention by projecting itself onto others.  This explains, according to Jung, why we are sometimes immediately attracted to certain strangers: we see our anima or animus in them.  Love at first sight is an example of anima and animus projection. Moreover, people who strongly identify with their gender role (e.g. a man who acts aggressively and never cries) have not developed any significant relationship with either their anima or animus.
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<blockquote>It is beyond the powers of the individual, more particularly of physicians, to master the manifold domains of the mental sciences which should throw some light on the comparative anatomy of the mind... We need not only the work of medical psychologists, but that also of philologists, historians, folklore students, ethnologists, philosophers, theologians, pedagogues and biologists.</blockquote>
  
==Jung's life==
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The overarching goal of Jung's life work was the reconciliation of the life of the individual with the world of the supra-personal [[archetypes]]. He came to see the individual's encounter with the [[unconscious]] as central to this process. The human experiences the unconscious through [[symbol]]s encountered in all aspects of life: in dreams, art, religion, and the symbolic dramas we enact in our relationships and life pursuits. Essential to the encounter with the unconscious, and the reconciliation of the individual's consciousness with this broader world, is learning this symbolic language. Only through attention and openness to this world (which is quite foreign to the modern Western mind) is the individual able to harmonize his life with these suprapersonal archetypal forces.
Born in Kesswil, in the Swiss canton of [[Thurgau]] on [[July 26]], [[1875]], Jung died in [[June 6]], [[1961]]. A very solitary [[introvert]]ed child, he was convinced from childhood that he had two personalities&mdash; a modern Swiss citizen, and a personality more at home in the eighteenth century. His father was a vicar, but, although Jung was close to both parents, he was rather disappointed in his father's academic approach to faith.  Jung wanted to study [[archaeology]] at university, but his family was too poor to send him further afield than [[Basel]], where they did not teach this subject, so instead Jung studied medicine at the [[University of Basel]] from  [[1894]]-[[1900]]. The formerly introverted student became much more lively here. Towards the end of studies here, his reading of [[Krafft-Ebbing]] persuaded him to specialise in psychiatric medicine. He later worked in the Burgholzi, a psychiatric hospital in [[Zurich]]. In [[1906]], he published ''The Psychology of Dementia Praecox'', and later sent a copy of this book to Freud, after which a close but brief friendship between these two men followed (see section on [[Carl Jung#Jung and Freud|Jung and Freud]]).
 
  
By [[1913]], however, especially after Jung had published ''Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido'' (known in English as ''The Psychology of the Unconscious'') their theoretical ideas had diverged so sharply that the two men fell out, each suggesting that the other was unable to admit he could possibly be wrong.  After this falling-out, Jung had some form of psychological transformative experience, exacerbated by news of the [[First World War]], which had a dire effect on Jung even in his own neutral [[Switzerland]]. [[Henri Ellenberger]] called Jung's experience a "creative illness" and compared it to Freud's period of what he called [[neurasthenia]] and [[hysteria]].
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Jung made the exploration of this "inner space" his life's work. He went equipped with a background in Freudian theory and with a seemingly inexhaustible knowledge of [[mythology]], religion, and philosophy. Jung was especially knowledgeable in the symbolism of complex mystical traditions such as [[Gnosticism]], [[Alchemy]], [[Kabala]], and similar traditions in [[Hinduism]] and [[Buddhism]]. From this foundation, Jung's life work was to make sense of the unconscious and its habit of revealing itself in symbolic form through archetypes of the collective unconscious. Later in life, Jung spoke of the transcendent function of the psyche, by which the conscious and unconscious are united. He believed this would lead to the full realization of the potential of the individual [[self]].
  
Following [[World War I]], Jung became a worldwide traveller, facilitated by the funds he realized through book sales, honoraria, and moneys received for sabbaticals from achieving seniority in the medical institutions he was employed at.  He  visited Northern Africa shortly after, and [[New Mexico]] and [[Kenya]] in the mid-[[1920s]]. In [[1938]], he delivered the [[Terry Lectures]], ''Psychology and Religion'', at [[Harvard University]]. It was at about this  stage in his life that Jung visited [[India]], and while there, had  dreams related to [[King Arthur]]. This convinced him that his agenda should be to  pay more attention to Western spirituality, and his later writings do show deep interests in Western mystery tradition and esoteric Christianity, and especially  [[alchemy]].
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Analytical psychology primarily explores how the collective unconscious, the part of consciousness that is cross-cultural and common to all human beings, influences [[personality]]. It is utilized not only for those with a [[Mental_health_and_illness|mental disorder]], but also for those who desire to promote their own [[psychological development]] and well-being. Jung's approach to psychology emphasized understanding the psyche through exploring the worlds of [[anthropology]], [[astrology]], [[alchemy]], [[dream]]s, [[art]], [[mythology]], [[religion]], and [[philosophy]].
  
In [[1903]] Jung married [[Emma Rauschenbach]], who was trained in psychoanalysis. Together they had five children. Their marriage lasted until Emma's death in [[1955]], but certainly experienced emotional torments, brought about by Jung's relationships with women other than Emma. The most well-known women with whom Jung is believed to have had extramarital affairs are [[Sabina Spielrein]] and Toni Wolff. Jung continued to publish books until the end of his life, including a work showing his late interest in [[flying saucers]]. He also enjoyed a brief friendship with an English Catholic priest, Father Victor White, who corresponded with Jung after he had published his controversial study of the [[Book of Job]].
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Jung was a strong believer in the importance of integration of opposites (e.g. masculine and feminine, thinking and feeling, [[science]] and [[spirituality]]). Though not the first to analyze [[dream]]s, his contributions to dream analysis were influential and extensive. Although he was a theoretical psychologist and practicing clinician for most of his life, many of his studies extend into other realms of the [[humanities]]: from comparative religion and philosophy, to criticism of art and literature. While these Jungian ideas are seldom mentioned in college psychology courses, they are often explored in humanities courses.
  
==Jung and Freud==
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Although Jung learned many concepts and tools from Freud's method of [[psychoanalysis]], such as the unconscious, dream analysis, and free association, many more pioneering psychological concepts were originally proposed by Jung. Some of these are:
Jung was thirty when he sent [[Sigmund Freud]] in Vienna his work ''Studies in Word Association''. Half a year later the then 50 year old Freud reciprocated by sending a collection of his latest published essays to Jung in [[Zurich]], which marked the beginning of an intense correspondence and collaboration lasting more than six years and ending shortly before World War I in May [[1914]], when Jung resigned as the chairman of the International Psychoanalytical Association.
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* [[Archetype|The Archetype]]
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* [[Collective unconscious|The Collective Unconscious]]
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* The Complex
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* Synchronicity
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* Individuation
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* [[Introvert and extrovert|Psychological Types]]
  
Today Jung and Freud rule two very different empires of the mind, so to speak, which the respective proponents of these empires like to stress, downplaying the influence these men had on each other in the formative years of their lives. But in [[1906]] [[psychoanalysis]] as an institution was non-existent. And Jung, who had become interested in psychiatry as a student by reading Psychopathia sexualis by Richard [[Krafft-Ebing]], professor in Vienna, now worked as a doctor under the psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler in the Burghölzli and became familiar with Freud's idea of the [[unconscious]] through Freud's ''The Interpretation of Dreams'' ([[1900]]) and a proponent of the new "psycho-analysis". Freud at that time needed nothing more than collaborators and followers to validate and spread his ideas. The Burghölzli was a renowned psychiatric clinic near Zurich and Jung an aspiring young doctor there on the rise. Another problem Freud had was that his slowly growing followership in [[Vienna]] was almost exclusively Jewish and Eugen Bleuler and Carl Jung were not.
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====The Archetype====
  
In [[1908]] Jung became editor of the newly founded ''Yearbook for Psychoanalytical and Psychopathological Research'', the following year Jung traveled with Freud and [[Sandor Ferenczi]] to the [[U.S.A.]] to spread the news of psychoanalysis and in [[1910]] Jung became chairman for life of the ''International Psychoanalytical Association''. While Jung worked on his ''Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido (Symbols of Transformation)'', the tensions between him and Freud were rising, the nature of [[libido]] and [[religion]] playing an important role. Jung eventually came to believe that Freud's view of the human "unconcious mind" placed too great an emphasis on sexuality in relation to human behavior and to psychological complexes. Although Freud at one time had seemed to hope that Jung would carry "Freudianism" into the future there was a parting of the ways. In 1912 Jung's book ''New Ways of Psychology'' overtly set out the difference in his approach to that of Freud. An actual professional and personal estrangement became definitely established in 1913.
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{{Main|Archetypes}}
  
In the following years Jung experienced considerable isolation in his professional life, exacerbated through [[World War I]]. His ''Seven Sermons to the Dead'' (1917) reprinted in his autobiography ''Memories, Dreams, Reflections'' (see Jung bibliography) can also be read as expression of the psychological conflicts which beset Jung around the age of forty after the break with [[Freud]].
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Jung discovered that certain symbolic themes existed across all [[cultures]], all epochs, and in every individual. Together these symbolic themes comprise "the archetypes of the collective unconscious.
  
==''Psychological Types''==
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The often misunderstood terms [[extrovert]] and [[introvert]] derive from this work. In Jung's original usage, the extrovert orientation finds meaning outside the self, in the surrounding world, whereas the introvert is introspective and finds it within. Jung also identified four primary modes of experiencing the world: thought, feeling, sensation, and intuition. (He referred to these as the four functions.)  Broadly speaking, we tend to work from our most developed function, while we need to widen our personality by developing the others. Related to this, Jung noted that the [[unconscious]] often tends to reveal itself most easily through a person's least developed function.  The encounter with the unconscious and development of the underdeveloped function(s) thus tend to progress together.
 
  
Significant in Jung's theory is that "type preferences" are inborn and not socially constructed through interaction with the parents, family, culture and other external influences. Even so, the individual is impacted in the quality and strength of the development in her or his preferences. Nature ''and'' nurture are both at play. A supportive environment will support and facilitate inborn preference development; a contrary environment will impede or retard the natural development of inborn preferences. The research on the mental health problems of many left-handed children forced to be right-handed is not dissimilar to what often occurs for people "forced" into a non-preferred mode of personal orientation.
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In the field of family systems theory, psychological type holds potential as another way to understand the internal conflicts and alliances within the family. Parents can often be seen to have concern about children who operate from type preferences different from theirs and run the risk of encouraging, and at times coercing, children into a false personality. As a child resists or naturally fails to adhere to the parental guidance, conflict readily occurs. "Type-alike" family members will naturally gravitate toward each other. The best approach is to try to identify type preferences of all family members and to actively encourage those preferences, while training children, as well, in non-preferred functions.
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The collective unconscious refers to that part of a person's [[unconscious]] that is common to all human beings. Jung took on the task of exploring and attempting to discern the mysteries stored in the collective unconscious.
  
===''Psychological Types'' &ndash; another view:===
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====The Complex====
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Early in Jung's career he coined the term and described the concept of the "complex." A complex is an emotionally charged group of ideas or images. Complexes are the architects of [[dream]]s and of symptoms, the building blocks of the psyche, and the source of all human [[emotion]]s. They operate relatively autonomously, and interfere with the intentions of the [[will]], disturbing the [[memory]] and conscious performance. Jung stressed that complexes are not negative in themselves, but their effects often are.
  
Imagine a person (the subject) observing an object or event. For example, a house that they are considering buying. The introvert relates more to the subject – what would this house, as a home, do for their life experience? The extrovert relates more to the object – the house. What could be done with this particular building? The focus being on the building itself.
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====Individuation====
  
There are four psychological functions in Jung’s model: two rational functions (thinking and feeling), and two perceptive functions (sensation and intuition).
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Jung used the process of individuation in pioneering the [[psychotherapy]] of the middle-aged and elderly, especially those who felt their lives had lost meaning. Many of these patients had lost their religious beliefs; Jung found that if they could rediscover their own meaning as expressed in [[dream]] and imagination, as well as through the exploration of [[mythology]] and [[religion]], they would become more complete personalities. Jung also stated that individuation is a natural process of maturation inherent in the nature of human beings, and is not only an analytic process. He believed that man became whole, integrated, calm, and happy when the process of individuation was complete&mdash;when the [[consciousness|conscious]] and [[unconscious]] have learned to live at peace and to complement one another.
  
Sensation is the perception of facts. For example, "the house is well built", "it has a large garden", and "it is two miles from the shops."
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====Synchronicity====
  
Intuition is the perception of the unseen. For example, "the seller is hiding something", and "I’d be content here for the next twenty years."
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Jung defined the concept of synchronicity as two simultaneous events that occur coincidentally, that are not causally related but result in meaningful connection. Synchronicity is also defined as the meaningful coincidence of an inner image with an outer event, which can often let one see the world in a new light, especially if one responds very deeply, with the full involvement of his or her being to the meaning of the event. While Jung professed the importance of the [[psychology|psychological]] significance of synchronicity, he also said "I am equally interested, at times even more so, in the [[metaphysics|metaphysical]] aspect of this phenomena, and I cannot deny my fervent interest in this aspect."
  
Thinking is analytical, deductive cognition. For example, "compared to the house I viewed yesterday, this is overpriced, bigger, nearer to work, overall it would cost so much per month more on my mortgage, but I’d spend two hours less travelling each week."
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Jung collaborated with [[quantum physics|quantum physicist]] [[Wolfgang Pauli]] and their common reflections went far beyond [[psychology]] and [[physics]], entering into the realm where the two areas meet in the [[philosophy]] of nature. As a consequence of their collaboration, synchronicity was transformed from an empirical concept into a fundamental explanatory-interpretative principle. The work of Pauli and Jung in the area of synchronicity thus contributed to a more holistic worldview by bringing unity to [[mind]] and [[matter]], psychology, philosophy (including metaphysics), and science.
  
Feeling is synthetic, all-inclusive cognition. For example, "I’ll have to sleep on it before I know whether this house could be home. Even then I may not know!" Feeling takes time. The feeling function is not the same as emotion, which Jungian psychology refers to as ''affect'' (emphasizing its physiological component) but the feeling function and affect (emotion) clearly do influence each other.
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The existence of synchronistic events contributed to Jung's hypothesis of an inherent unitary reality where psyche and matter are "two different aspects of the same thing,” because "they are included in one and the same world." Jung called this ''unus mundus.''
  
In any person, the degree of introversion/extroversion of one function can be quite different to that of another function. For example extroverted intuition&mdash; imagining endless means of political change; with relatively introverted thinking&mdash; "How would I fit into such a society?"
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====Psychological Types====
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{{Main|Introvert and extrovert}}
  
Introverted intuitives tend to be weak at extroverted sensation (and vice versa)&mdash; they have very good insight into themselves, their unseen motives and likely long term goals, but can’t find their adjustable spanner nine times out of ten. Intuition is often inspired, and other times completely wrong. It has to be checked with one of the rational functions - thinking or feeling. Introverted thinking types tend to be weak at extroverted feeling.
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One of Jung's most important discoveries was his realization that by understanding the way we typically process information, we can gain insights into why we act and feel the way we do. Jung identified two core psychological processes that he termed "extravert" (as originally spelled by Jung and considered a variant of the word extrovert in the Merriam Webster Dictionary) and "introvert." In Jung's original usage, the extravert orientation finds meaning outside the self, preferring the external world of things, people, and activities. The introvert is introspective and finds meaning within, preferring their internal world of thoughts, feelings, fantasies, and dreams. Jung also identified four primary modes of experiencing the world: [[thinking]], [[feeling]], [[sensation]], and [[intuition]]. He referred to these as the four functions.
  
Note: As for training children, while it is a good thing to appreciate the psychological type of a child, or indeed of anyone, it is most productive to understand the psychological typology of children&mdash;then leave them alone. Leading anyone into their inferior function can be dangerous. Though it has its uses for mature persons with the assistance of an experienced therapist, it is not part of the educational or parental role. If a child has suppressed feeling, for example, it may be a survival strategy.
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Significant in Jung's theory is that "type preferences" are inborn and not socially constructed through interaction with the [[parent]]s, [[family]], [[culture]] and other external influences. Even so, the individual is impacted in the quality and strength of the development in his or her preferences. Nature and nurture are both at play. A supportive environment will facilitate inborn preference development; a contrary environment will impede or retard their natural development.
  
== Influence ==
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===Psychology and Religion===
Jung has had an enduring influence on psychology as well as wider society. He has influenced psychotherapy (see [[Jungian psychotherapy]]).
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Jung believed that the force of "[[Rationalism]]" had eroded man's spiritual values to a dangerous degree, leading to worldwide disorientation and dissociation. He said that we have become "dominated by the goddess Reason, who is our greatest and most tragic illusion." He researched [[anthropology|anthropological]] documentation regarding what happens when a society loses its spiritual values&mdash;people lose the meaning of their lives, social organization disintegrates, and morals decay. Jung attributed this partially to spiritual leaders being more interested in protecting their institutions than understanding the mysteries of [[faith]].  
* The concept of introversion vs. extroversion
 
* The concept of the [[complex (psychology)|complex]]
 
* [[Myers-Briggs Type Indicator]] (MBTI) and [[David Keirsey]] tests were inspired by Jung's Psychological Types theory. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator assesses people on extraversion and introversion, Jung's function types and also on judging-perceiving, a dimension not found in Jung's original taxonomy but germane to his distinction between rational and irrational functions.
 
* [[Socionics]], similar to MBTI, is also based on Jung´s Psychological Types.  
 
  
=== Spiritualism as a cure for alcoholism ===
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He was also concerned that "Mother Earth" had been reduced to mere matter rather than the profound emotional significance contained in the former image of the "Great Mother." As scientific understanding grew, so the world had become dehumanized. Jung believed that individuals feel isolated in the cosmos because they have ceased to be involved in nature and have become disconnected from their "unconscious identity" with natural phenomena.
  
Jung's influence can sometimes be found in more unexpected quarters. For example, Jung once treated an American patient suffering from chronic [[alcoholism]]. After working with the patient for some time, and achieving no significant progress, Jung told the man that his alcoholic condition was near to hopeless, save only the possibility of a spiritual experience. Jung noted that occasionally such experiences had been known to reform alcoholics where all else had failed.  
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[[Dream]]s, Jung believed, help to compensate for this enormous loss. He discovered that the psyche spontaneously produces images with a religious content, and is "by nature religious." Especially during the second half of life, he noted that numerous [[neurosis|neuroses]] result from a disregard for this fundamental characteristic of the psyche. As our life becomes more rational, the symbols in our dreams keep us connected with the symbols of the mysteries of life. The [[symbol]]s and [[archetype]]s are not static or mechanical, but come alive as the individual assigns meaning to them. He explained that the symbol-producing function of dreams is to bring the original mind into an advanced consciousness. The symbols are an attempt to unite and reconcile opposites within the psyche.  
  
The patient took Jung's advice seriously and set about seeking a personal spiritual experience. He returned home to the United States and joined a [[Christianity|Christian]] [[Evangelicalism|evangelical]] church. He also told other alcoholics what Jung had told him about the importance of a spiritual experience. One of the alcoholics he told was [[Ebby Thatcher]], a long-time friend and drinking buddy of [[William Griffith Wilson|Bill Wilson]], co-founder of [[Alcoholics Anonymous]] (A.A.) Thacher told Wilson about Jung's ideas. Wilson, who was finding it hard to maintain sobriety, was impressed and sought out his own spiritual experience. The influence of Jung ultimately found its way in the [[12-step program]] of [[Alcoholics Anonymous]], drafted by Wilson, and from there into the whole 12-step recovery movement, which has touched the lives of millions of people.
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He reminded us that [[God]] speaks to us through dreams and visions. While the [[Catholic Church]] admits the occurrence of ''somnia a deo missa'' (dreams sent by God), rarely do Catholic thinkers make a serious attempt to understand dreams. Jung speculated that the study of individual and collective symbolism holds the solution to modern man's problems.  
  
===Influences on culture===
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While Jung spoke in terms of archetypes and symbols in his scientific work, he spoke more personally of his relationship with God in his autobiography, ''Memories, Dreams and Reflections'': "I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force."
* Jung had a 16-year long friendship with author [[Laurens van der Post]] from which a number of books and [[film]] were created about Jung's life.
 
  
* The concept of the collective unconscious is one of the main topics in the [[Dune_(novel)|Dune]] novel series.
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== Influence ==
  
* Jung's influence on noted Canadian novelist [[Robertson Davies]] is apparent in many of Davies's fictional works. In particular, [[The Cornish Trilogy]] and his novel ''[[The Manticore]]'' each base their design on [[Jungian]] concepts.
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Jung has had an enduring influence both in psychology and beyond. Many [[literature|writers]], [[art]]ists, [[music]]ians, [[film]] makers, [[theology|theologians]], and [[mythology|mythologists]] have found inspiration in Jung's work. Examples include mythologist [[Joseph Campbell]], film maker [[George Lucas]], and [[science fiction]] author [[Ursula K. LeGuin]]. Within the field of psychology, Jung's work has led to [[personality test]]s based on his [[Jung, Carl#Application of Psychological Types|psychological types]], his concept of [[archetypes]] has formed the basis for Hillman's [[Jung, Carl#Archetypal Psychology|archetypal psychology]], his wide-ranging interpretation of dreams and associations counteracted [[Sigmund Freud|Freud]]'s restricted (primarily sexual) approach, and his [[analytical psychology]] remains one of the pillars of [[Jung, Carl#Depth Psychology|depth psychology]].  
  
* Jung influenced much of [[Joseph Campbell]]'s thought, leading to the creation of [[Star Wars]] and, to a lesser extent, [[The Matrix]] trilogy
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===Alcoholics Anonymous===
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Jung's influence can sometimes be found in more unexpected quarters. Jung once treated an American patient suffering from chronic [[alcoholism]]. After working with the patient for some time, and achieving no significant progress, Jung told the man that his alcoholic condition was near to hopeless, save only the possibility of a spiritual experience. Jung noted that occasionally such experiences had been known to reform alcoholics where all else had failed.
  
* [[Ted Hughes]]'s 1971 collection '[[Crow]]' shows Hughes' interest in Jungian theory.  
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The patient took Jung's advice seriously and set about seeking a personal spiritual experience. He returned home to the United States and joined a [[Christianity|Christian]] [[Evangelicalism|evangelical]] church. He also told other alcoholics what Jung had told him about the importance of a spiritual experience. One of the alcoholics he told was Ebby Thatcher, a long-time friend and drinking buddy of William G. Wilson, co-founder of [[Alcoholics Anonymous]] (A.A.). Thatcher told Wilson about Jung's ideas. Wilson, who was finding it hard to maintain sobriety, was impressed and sought out his own spiritual experience. The influence of Jung ultimately found its way in the 12-step program of Alcoholics Anonymous, which has touched the lives of millions of people.
  
* The [[progressive metal]] band, [[Tool (band)|Tool]], have incorporated ideas from Jung's work into their albums, especially ''[[Ænima]]''. Songs such as "Forty Six & 2" and "Ænema" (the title of this song and the title of the album both being derived from Jung's anima) are particularly fraught with references. Additionally, [[The Police]] made references to Carl Jung in their album ''[[Synchronicity (album)|Synchronicity]]''.
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===Application of Psychological Types===
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The popular [[Myers-Briggs Type Indicator]] (MBTI), Kiersey-Bates Temperament Sorter (KBTS), and Socionics were all inspired by Jung's theory of psychological types. These [[personality assessment|tests]] are widely used instruments for [[personality]] analysis and as an effective management tool to help with team building, [[time management]], [[problem solving]], developing effective task groups, and [[communication]] improvement in large and small [[corporation]]s. They are also used in career development as well as in relationship and [[marital counseling]]. Since tests based on Jung's types do not evaluate people as good or bad, their use encourages people to become more aware of personality traits in themselves and others, and subsequently improves relationships.
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The Jung Typology Test is available [http://www.humanmetrics.com/cgi-win/JTypes1.htm online].
  
* [[J. Michael Straczynski]]'s "[[Babylon 5]]" [[television]] series used many of Jung's concepts throughout the series.
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In the field of family systems theory, the concept of psychological type holds potential as another way to understand the internal conflicts and alliances within the [[family]], and thus to support [[family counseling]]. Parents can often be seen to have concern about children who operate from type preferences different from theirs and run the risk of encouraging, and at times coercing, children into a false personality. "Type-alike" family members will naturally gravitate toward each other.
  
*Alexander Vickers' [[television]] series [[ZERO.POINT]] revolves heavily around Jung's idea of a [[collective unconscious]].  (see ZERO.POINT [http://www.zeropoint.tv homepage])
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===Archetypal Psychology===
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Archetypal psychology was founded by James Hillman, who trained at the Jung Institute in Zurich. Hillman acknowledges that archetypal psychology originated with Jung, although it developed in a somewhat different direction. Whereas Jung’s psychology focused on the [[self]], its dynamics and its constellations of [[archetype]]s (ego, anima, animus, shadow), Hillman’s archetypal psychology relativizes and deliteralizes the [[ego]] and focuses on the psyche, or [[soul]], itself and "the fundamental fantasies that animate all life."
  
* The video games [[Xenogears]] and [[Xenosaga]] utilize many of the ideas proposed by Carl Jung as major storyline components of the game, and even create physical manifestations of his notions within actual characters, Albedo, [[Nigredo]], Rubedo, etc.
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===Depth Psychology===
  
* Jung's writing was introduced to Italian film maker Federico Fellini in the 1950s and had an effect on the way Fellini incorporated dreams into films after [[La Dolce Vita]].
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{{Main|Depth psychology}}
  
* Many events and places are named after Jung's concepts and ideas in the PSX game [[Persona 2: Eternal Punishment]], though not necessarily correctly.
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Depth psychology is most strongly influenced by the work of Carl Jung, especially his emphasis on questions of psyche, human development, and personality development (or individuation). It is a broad term that refers to any psychological approach examining the depth (the hidden or deeper parts) of human experience.
  
* In the Anime Series [[Serial Experiments Lain]] the collective unconscious is mentioned
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===Popular Culture===
  
* [[Blue Man Group]]'s "Rock Concert Movement #237" is "Taking the audience on a Jungian journey into the collective unconscious by using the shadow as a metaphor for the primal self that gets repressed by the modern persona and also by using an underground setting and [[labyrinth]] office design to represent both the depths of the psyche and the [[dungeon]]-like isolation of our increasingly mechanistic society which prevents people from finding satisfying work or meaningful connections with others."
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Jung's ideas, especially the archetypes, have strongly influenced popular culture and media, such as novels, films, video games, and television programming. Here are examples that use the Wise Old Man archetype:
  
* In the movie [[Batman Begins]], the character of Jonathan Crane, aka "The Scarecrow", is a Jungian psychiatrist and at the same time personifies one of man's primal archetypes (the Trickster).
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* [[Albus Dumbledore]] from [[J.K. Rowling]]'s ''[[Harry Potter]]'' series
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* [[Auron]] from ''[[Final Fantasy X]]''
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* [[Gandalf]] from [[J.R.R. Tolkien]]'s ''[[Lord of the Rings]]'' series
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* [[Allanon]] from [[Terry Brooks]]' ''[[Shannara]]'' series
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* [[Brom]] from [[Christopher Paolini]]'s ''[[Inheritance Trilogy]]''.
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* [[Abbot Mortimer]] from [[Brian Jacques]]' novel ''[[Redwall]]''.
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* [[Morpheus]] from ''[[The Matrix]]''
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* [[Thufir Hawat]] from ''[[Dune]]''
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* [[Yoda]], [[Obi-Wan Kenobi]], and [[Qui-Gon Jinn]] from the ''[[Star Wars]]'' films.
  
 
== Recommended Reading==
 
== Recommended Reading==
There is expansive literature on Jungian thought. For a good, short and easily accessible introduction to Jung's thought read:
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There is expansive literature on Jungian thought. For a good, short and easily accessible introduction to Jung's thought read:
*Chapter 1 of ''[[Man and His Symbols]]'', conceived and edited by Jung. (The rest of this book also provides a good overview.)
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*Chapter 1 of ''Man and His Symbols,'' conceived and edited by Jung. ISBN 0440351839 (The rest of this book also provides a good overview.)
  
 
Other good introductory texts include:
 
Other good introductory texts include:
*''The Portable Jung'', edited by [[Joseph Campbell]] (Viking Portable), ISBN 0140150706
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*''The Portable Jung,'' edited by Joseph Campbell. Viking Portable, ISBN 0140150706
*Edward F Edinger, ''Ego and Archetype'', (Shambala), ISBN 087773576X
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*Edward F. Edinger, ''Ego and Archetype.'' Shambala, ISBN 087773576X
*Another recommended tool for navigating Jung's works is Robert Hopcke's book, ''A Guided Tour of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung'', ISBN 1570624054. He offers short, lucid summaries of all of Jung's major ideas and suggests readings from Jung's and others' work that best present that idea.
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*Another recommended tool for navigating Jung's works is Robert Hopcke's book, ''A Guided Tour of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung,'' ISBN 1570624054. He offers short, lucid summaries of all of Jung's major ideas and suggests readings from Jung's and others' work that best present that idea.
  
 
Good texts in various areas of Jungian thought:
 
Good texts in various areas of Jungian thought:
*Edward F. Edinger, ''The Mystery of The Coniunctio'', ISBN 0919123678. A good explanation of Jung's foray into the symbolism of [[alchemy]] as it relates to individuation and individual religious experience. Many of the alchemical symbols recur in contemporary dreams (with creative additions from the unconscious e.g. space travel, internet, computers)
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*Edward F. Edinger, ''The Mystery of the Coniunctio,'' ISBN 0919123678. A good explanation of Jung's foray into the symbolism of alchemy as it relates to individuation and individual religious experience. Many of the alchemical symbols recur in contemporary dreams (with creative additions from the unconscious, e.g., space travel, internet, computers)
*James A Hall M.D., ''Jungian Dream Interpretation'', ISBN 0919123120. A brief, well structured overview of the use of dreams in therapy.
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*James A Hall, M.D., ''Jungian Dream Interpretation,'' ISBN 0919123120. A brief, well-structured overview of the use of dreams in therapy.
*James Hillman, "Healing Fiction", ISBN 0-88214-363-8. Covers Jung, Alder, and Freud and their various contributions to understanding the soul.
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*James Hillman, "Healing Fiction," ISBN 0882143638. Covers Jung, Alder, and Freud and their various contributions to understanding the soul.
*Andrew Samuels, ''Critical Dictionary of Jungian Analysis'', ISBN 0415059100
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*Andrew Samuels, ''Critical Dictionary of Jungian Analysis,'' ISBN 0415059100
*June Singer, ''Boundaries of the Soul'', ISBN 0385475292. On psychotherapy
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*June Singer, ''Boundaries of the Soul,'' ISBN 0385475292. On psychotherapy
*[[Marion Woodman]], ''The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation'' ISBN 0919123201. The recovery of feminine values in women (and men). There are many examples of clients' dreams, by an experienced analyst.
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*Marion Woodman, ''The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation,'' ISBN 0919123201. The recovery of feminine values in women (and men). There are many examples of clients' dreams, by an experienced analyst.
  
 
And a more academic text:
 
And a more academic text:
*Andrew Samuels, ''The Political Psyche'' (Routledge), ISBN 0415081025. Difficult, but useful.
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*Andrew Samuels, ''The Political Psyche.'' Routledge, ISBN 0415081025. Difficult, but useful.
  
 
For the Jung-Freud relationship:  
 
For the Jung-Freud relationship:  
* Kerr, John. ''A Most Dangerous Method : The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein.'' Knopf 1993. ISBN 0679404120.  
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* Kerr, John. 1993. ''A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein.'' Knopf. ISBN 0679404120  
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On synchronicity:
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*Donati, Marialuisa. 2004. “Beyond synchronicity: the worldview of Carl Gustav Jung and Wolfgang Pauli.” Published in ''Journal of Analytical Psychology'' 49:707–728.
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==Jung bibliography==
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Jung, C.G., with Adler, Gerhard, Fordham, Michael, Read, Herbert, and McGuire, (editors). 2000. ''Collected Works of C.G. Jung: 21 Volume Hardcover Set (Collected Works of C.G. Jung).'' Bollingen. The collected edition of Jung's works, in English translation. ISBN 0691074763
  
===Jung bibliography===
 
 
Works arranged by original publication date if known:
 
Works arranged by original publication date if known:
*Jung, C. G. (1902&ndash;1905). ''Psychiatric Studies''. '''''Collected Works''''' Vol. 1. 1953 ed. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, and Princeton, N.J.: Bollingen. This was the first of 18 volumes plus separate bibliography and index. Not including revisions the set was completed in 1967.
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*Jung, C. G. 1906. ''Studies in Word-association.'' Routledge & Kegan Paul. (reissued 1969). ISBN 0710063768
*Jung, C. G. (1904&ndash;1907) ''Studies in Word Association''. London: Routledge & K. Paul. (contained in ''Experimental Researches'', Collected Works Vol. 2)
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*Jung, C. G., H. G. Baynes, and C. F. Baynes. 1928. ''Contributions to Analytical Psychology.'' London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
*Jung, C. G. (1907). ''The Psychology of Dementia Praecox''.  (2nd ed. 1936) New York: Nervous and Mental Disease Publ. Co. (contained in ''The Psychogenesis of Mental Disease'', Collected Works Vol. 3. This is the disease now known as [[schizophrenia]])
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*Jung, C. G., and S. Shamdasani. 1932. ''The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga'': notes of a seminar by C.G. Jung. 1996 ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
*Jung, C. G. (1907&ndash;1958). ''The Psychogenesis of Mental Disease''. 1991 ed. London: Routledge. (Collected Works Vol. 3)
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*Jung, C. G. 1933. ''Modern Man in Search of a Soul.'' London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner, 1955 ed. Harvest Books ISBN 0156612062
*Jung, C. G., & Hinkle, B. M. (1912). ''Psychology of the Unconscious'' : a study of the transformations and symbolisms of the libido, a contribution to the history of the evolution of thought. London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner. (revised in 1952 as ''Symbols of Transformation'', Collected Works Vol.5 ISBN 0691018154)
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*Jung, C. G., and S. M. Dell. 1939. ''The Integration of the Personality.'' Farrar and Rinehart. ASIN B0008569ZC.
*Jung, C. G., & Long, C. E. (1917). ''Collected Papers on Analytical Psychology'' (2nd ed.). London: Balliere Tindall & Cox. (contained in ''Freud and Psychoanalysis'', Collected Works Vol. 4)
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*Jung, C. G. 1947. ''Essays on Contemporary Events.'' London: Kegan Paul.
*Jung, C. G. (1917, 1928). ''Two Essays on Analytical Psychology'' (1966 revised 2nd ed. Collected Works Vol. 7). London: Routledge.
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*Jung, C. G. 1957. ''The Undiscovered Self (Present and Future).'' 1959 ed. New York: American Library. 1990 ed. Bollingen ISBN 0691018944  
*Jung, C. G., & Baynes, H. G. (1921). ''Psychological Types'', or, ''The Psychology of Individuation''. London: K. Paul Trench Trubner. (Collected Works Vol.6 ISBN 0691018138)
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*Jung, C. G., and V. S. De Laszlo. 1958. ''Psyche and Symbol: A Selection from the Writings of C.G. Jung.'' Garden City, NY: Doubleday.  
*Jung, C. G., Baynes, H. G., & Baynes, C. F. (1928). ''Contributions to Analytical Psychology''. London: Routledge & Kegan Paul.
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*Jung, C. G., and V. S. De Laszlo. 1959. ''Basic Writings.'' New York: Modern Library.
*Jung, C. G., & Shamdasani, S. (1932). ''The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga'': notes of a seminar by C.G. Jung. 1996 ed. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
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*Jung, C. G., and A. Jaffe. 1962. ''Memories, Dreams, Reflections.'' London: Collins. This is Jung's autobiography, recorded and edited by Aniela Jaffe, ISBN 0679723951
*Jung, C. G. (1933). ''Modern Man in Search of a Soul''. London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner, (1955 ed. Harvest Books ISBN 0156612062)
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*Jung, C. G., R. I. Evans, and E. Jones. 1964. ''Conversations with Carl Jung and Reactions from Ernest Jones.'' New York: Van Nostrand.
*Jung, C. G., (1934&ndash;1954). ''The Archetypes and The Collective Unconscious''. (1981 2nd ed. Collected Works Vol.9 Part 1), Princeton, N.J.: Bollingen. ISBN 0691018332
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*Jung, C. G. 1964. ''Man and His Symbols.'' Garden City, NY: Doubleday, (reissued 1968, Laurel) ISBN 0440351839
*Jung, C. G. (1938). ''Psychology and Religion'' The Terry Lectures. New Haven: Yale University Press. (contained in ''Psychology and Religion: West and East'' Collected Works Vol. 11 ISBN 0691097720). 
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*Jung, C. G., and J. Campbell. 1976. ''The Portable Jung.'' New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 0140150706
*Jung, C. G., & Dell, S. M. (1940). ''The Integration of the Personality''. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
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*Jung, C. G., C. L. Rothgeb, S. M. Clemens, and National Clearinghouse for Mental Health Information (U.S.). 1978. ''Abstracts of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung.'' Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
*Jung, C. G. (1944). ''Psychology and Alchemy'' (2nd ed. 1968 Collected Works Vol. 12 ISBN 0691018316). London: Routledge.
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*Jung, C. G. 1983. ''The Essential Jung.'' Edited by Antony Storr. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, ISBN 0691024553
*Jung, C. G. (1947). ''Essays on Contemporary Events''. London: Kegan Paul.
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*Jung, C. G. 1987. ''Dictionary of Analytical Psychology.'' London: Ark Paperbacks.
*Jung, C. G. (1947, revised 1954). ''On the Nature of the Psyche''. 1988 ed. London: Ark Paperbacks. (contained in Collected Works Vol. 8)
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*Jung, C. G., S. Wagner, G. Wagner, and L. Van der Post. 1990. ''The World Within.'' C.G. Jung in his own words [videorecording]. New York, NY: Kino International, dist. by Insight Media.
*Jung, C. G. (1951). ''Aion: Researches into the Phenomenology of the Self'' (Collected Works Vol. 9 Part 2). Princeton, N.J.: Bollingen.  ISBN 069101826X
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*Jung, C. G., and R.F.C. Hull. 1992. ''Psychological Types,'' rev. ed. London: Routledge. ISBN 0415071771.
*Jung, C. G. (1952). ''Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle''.  1973 2nd ed. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, ISBN 0691017948 (contained in Collected Works Vol. 8)
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*Jung, C. G., and J. Chodorow. 1997. ''Jung on Active Imagination.'' Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
*Jung, C. G. (1956). ''Mysterium Coniunctionis: An Inquiry into the Separation and Synthesis of Psychic Opposites in Alchemy''. London: Routledge. (2nd ed. 1970 Collected Works Vol. 14 ISBN 0691018162) This was Jung's last book length work, completed when he was eighty.
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*Jung, C. G., and J. L. Jarrett. 1998. Jung's ''Seminar on Nietzsche's Zarathustra,'' abridged ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
*Jung, C. G. (1957). ''The Undiscovered Self (Present and Future)''. 1959 ed. New York: American Library. 1990 ed. Bollingen ISBN 0691018944 (50 p. essay, also contained in collected Works Vol. 10)
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*Jung, C. G., and Wolfgang Pauli. 2001. ''Atom and Archetype: The Pauli/Jung Letters, 1932–1958.'' Edited by C. A. Meier. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691012075  
*Jung, C. G., & De Laszlo, V. S. (1958). ''Psyche and Symbol: A Selection from the Writings of C.G. Jung''. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday.  
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*Jung, C. G., and M. Sabini. 2002. ''The Earth Has a Soul'': the nature writings of C.G. Jung. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books. ISBN 1556433794.
*Jung, C. G., & De Laszlo, V. S. (1959). ''Basic Writings''. New York: Modern Library.
 
*Jung, C. G., & Jaffe A. (1962). '''''Memories, Dreams, Reflections'''''. London: Collins. This is Jung's autobiography, recorded and edited by Aniela Jaffe, ISBN 0679723951
 
*Jung, C. G., Evans, R. I., & Jones, E. (1964). ''Conversations with Carl Jung and Reactions from Ernest Jones''. New York: Van Nostrand.
 
*Jung, C. G., & Franz, M.-L. v. (1964). ''[[Man and His Symbols]]''. Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, ISBN 0440351839
 
*Jung, C. G. (1966). ''The Practice of Psychotherapy: Essays on the Psychology of the Transference and other Subjects'' (Collected Works Vol. 16). Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
 
*Jung, C. G. (1967). ''The Development of Personality''. 1991 ed. London: Routledge. Collected Works Vol. 17 ISBN 0691018383
 
*Jung, C. G. (1970). ''Four Archetypes; Mother, Rebirth, Spirit, Trickster''. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. (contained in Collected Works Vol. 9 part 1)
 
*Jung, C. G. (1974). ''Dreams''. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press (compilation from Collected Works Vols. 4, 8, 12, 16), ISBN 0691017921
 
*Jung, C. G., & Campbell, J. (1976). ''The Portable Jung''. a compilation, New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 0140150706
 
*Jung, C. G., Rothgeb, C. L., Clemens, S. M., & National Clearinghouse for Mental Health Information (U.S.). (1978). ''Abstracts of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung''. Washington, D.C.: U.S. Govt. Printing Office.
 
*Jung, C. G., & Antony Storr ed., (1983) ''The Essential Jung''. a compilation, Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, ISBN 0-691-02455-3
 
*Jung, C. G. (1986). ''Psychology and the East''. London: Ark. (contained in Collected Works Vol. 11)
 
*Jung, C. G. (1987). ''Dictionary of Analytical Psychology''. London: Ark Paperbacks.
 
*Jung, C. G. (1988). ''Psychology and Western Religion''. London: Ark Paperbacks. (contained in Collected Works Vol. 11)
 
*Jung, C. G., Wagner, S., Wagner, G., & Van der Post, L. (1990). ''The World Within'' C.G. Jung in his own words [videorecording]. New York, NY: Kino International : Dist. by Insight Media.
 
*Jung, C. G., & Hull, R. F. C. (1991). ''Psychological Types'' (a revised ed.). London: Routlege.
 
*Jung, C. G., & Chodorow, J. (1997). ''Jung on Active Imagination''. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
 
*Jung, C. G., & Jarrett, J. L. (1998). Jung's ''Seminar on Nietzsche's Zarathustra'' (Abridged ed.). Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press.
 
*Jung, C. G., & Pauli, Wolfgang,  C. A. Meier (Editor). (2001). ''Atom and Archetype : The Pauli/Jung Letters, 1932-1958'', Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691012075  
 
*Jung, C. G., & Sabini, M. (2002). ''The Earth Has a Soul'': the nature writings of C.G. Jung. Berkeley, Calif.: North Atlantic Books.
 
  
An early writing by Jung, dating from around [[1917]], was his poetic work, the ''Seven Sermons to the Dead''Written in the persona of the [[2nd century]] religious teacher [[Basilides]] of [[Alexandria]], it explores ancient religious and spiritual themes, including those of [[gnosticism]]. This work is published in some editions of ''Memories, Dreams, Reflections.''
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An early writing by Jung, dating from around 1917, was his poetic work, the ''Seven Sermons to the Dead.'' Written in the persona of the second-century religious teacher [[Basilides]] of [[Alexandria]], it explores ancient religious and spiritual themes, including those of [[Gnosticism]]. This work is published in some editions of ''Memories, Dreams, Reflections.''
  
 
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Carl Jung in 1912

Carl Gustav Jung (July 26, 1875 – June 6, 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology. He was one of the first and most widely read writers of the twentieth century on the psychology of the human mind. His influence has proved as enduring and diverse as that of Sigmund Freud, with whom he worked for a time, although their approaches to psychotherapy are radically different. Jung regarded the unconscious as crucial to our psychological development, and he spent a significant portion of his life researching this aspect of life, as revealed in symbolic form through dreams and other spiritual experiences. He regarded his theories as applicable both to those with mental disorders and to those who are simply interested in promoting their own psychological development. Jung had many personal spiritual experiences that he wrote about in detail, along with his relationship with God, in his autobiography. However, he did not include explicitly religious concepts, or any mention of God, in his psychological theories.

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Life

Born in Kesswil, in the Swiss canton of Thurgau on July 26, 1875, Carl Jung was a very solitary child. He was convinced from childhood that he had two personalities—a modern Swiss citizen, and a personality more at home in the eighteenth century. He was close to both his parents, and his interest in spirituality began at home. When he was a child, his mother often read to him of exotic religions from an illustrated children's book. His father was a vicar, but he was rather disappointed in his father's academic approach to faith.

Jung wanted to study archeology at the university, but his family was too poor to send him further afield than Basel, where they did not teach this subject. Instead, Jung studied medicine at the University of Basel from 1894 to 1900. The formerly solitary student became much livelier there. Towards the end of his studies, his reading of Krafft-Ebing persuaded him to specialize in psychiatric medicine: "Here and here alone (psychiatry), was the empirical field common to spiritual and biological facts." He later worked in the Burgholzi, a psychiatric hospital in Zurich.

In 1903, Jung married Emma Rauschenbach, who was trained in psychoanalysis. Together they had five children. They were close collaborators until Emma's death in 1955.

In 1906, he sent a copy of his work on word association to Sigmund_Freud, after which a close but brief friendship between these two men followed (see section on Jung and Freud).

As a boy, Jung had remarkably striking dreams and powerful fantasies that had developed with unusual intensity. After his break with Freud, he deliberately allowed this aspect of himself to arise again, and gave the irrational side of his nature free expression. At the same time, he studied it scientifically by keeping detailed notes of his unusual experiences. He later developed the theory that these experiences came from an area of the mind that he called the collective unconscious, which he held was shared by everyone. In the following years, Jung experienced considerable isolation in his professional life, which intensified through World War I and his alienation from the psychoanalytic community. His Seven Sermons to the Dead (1917) reprinted in his autobiography Memories, Dreams, Reflections (Jung & Jaffe, 1962) can also be read as expression of the psychological explorations of his inner world.

Following the war, Jung became a worldwide traveler, facilitated by the funds he realized through book sales, honoraria, and moneys received for sabbaticals from achieving seniority in the medical institutions where he was employed. He visited Northern Africa, and then New Mexico and Kenya in the mid-1920s. In 1938, he delivered the Terry Lectures, Psychology and Religion, at Harvard University. It was at about this stage in his life that Jung visited India. During his time there he had dreams related to King Arthur. This convinced him that his agenda should be to pay more attention to Western spirituality, and his later writings show deep interests in Western mystical traditions, esoteric Christianity, and especially alchemy. A late work revealed his interest in flying saucers as a psychic projection caused by the threatening global situation of his day. Jung continued to write until the end of his life on June 6, 1961.

Work

Jung and Freud

Jung was 30 when he sent a copy of his work Studies in Word Association to Sigmund Freud in Vienna. Half a year later, the then 50-year-old Freud reciprocated by sending a collection of his latest published essays to Jung in Zurich. This marked the beginning of an intense correspondence and collaboration lasting more than six years.

Jung and Freud rule two very different empires of the mind, and it is the differences that proponents of each like to stress, downplaying the influence these men had on each other in the formative years of their lives. But in 1906, psychoanalysis as an institution was non-existent. And Jung, who was working as a doctor under the psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler in the Burghölzli, became familiar with Freud's idea of the unconscious through Freud's The Interpretation of Dreams (1900). Freud at that time needed nothing more than collaborators and followers to validate and spread his ideas. The Burghölzli was a renowned psychiatric clinic near Zurich and Jung was an aspiring young doctor there on the rise. Jung's research at the Burghölzli established him as a psychiatrist of international repute. His findings corroborated many of Freud's ideas and for a time period (between 1907 and 1912) he and Freud worked closely together.

In 1908, Jung became editor of the newly founded Yearbook for Psychoanalytical and Psychopathological Research; the following year Jung traveled with Freud and Sandor Ferenczi to the U.S.A. to spread the news of psychoanalysis and in 1910, Jung became chairman for life of the International Psychoanalytical Association. While Jung worked on his Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido (Symbols of Transformation), the tensions between him and Freud were rising, the nature of libido and religion playing an important role. Jung eventually came to believe that Freud's view of the human "unconscious mind" placed too great an emphasis on sexuality in relation to human behavior and to psychological complexes. Jung believed that the unconscious also had a creative capacity, serving a positive role essential to human society and culture. Although Freud at one time had seemed to hope that Jung would carry "Freudianism" into the future there was a parting of the ways. When Jung spoke to Freud of precognition and parapsychology, his response was an emphatic "Sheer nonsense!" In 1912, Jung's book Psychology of the Unconscious overtly set out the difference in his approach to that of Freud.

An actual professional and personal estrangement became definitely established in 1913, and Jung resigned from the Psychoanalytic Society in 1914. This separation of two great figures in psychology impacted not only their own research and theoretical development, but also affected the development of psychology, leading to divergent schools regarding the conception of the human mind that remain separate to this day.

Jungian psychology

Main article: Analytical psychology

After his break with Freud, Jung and his followers began the school of analytical psychology. Although Jung was wary of founding a "school" of psychology, (he was once rumored to have said, "Thank God I'm Jung and not a Jungian."), he did develop a distinctive approach to the study of the human psyche. Through his early years working in a Swiss hospital with psychotic patients and collaborating with Sigmund Freud and the burgeoning psychoanalytic community, he gained a close look at the mysterious depths of the human unconscious. Fascinated by what he saw (and spurred on with even more passion by the experiences and questions of his personal life) he devoted his life to the exploration of the unconscious. However, he did not feel that experimental natural science was the best means to this end.

Ultimately, Jung sought to understand psychology through the study of the humanities. In his letter to the Psychoanalytic Review (Fall 1913), he wrote,

It is beyond the powers of the individual, more particularly of physicians, to master the manifold domains of the mental sciences which should throw some light on the comparative anatomy of the mind... We need not only the work of medical psychologists, but that also of philologists, historians, folklore students, ethnologists, philosophers, theologians, pedagogues and biologists.

The overarching goal of Jung's life work was the reconciliation of the life of the individual with the world of the supra-personal archetypes. He came to see the individual's encounter with the unconscious as central to this process. The human experiences the unconscious through symbols encountered in all aspects of life: in dreams, art, religion, and the symbolic dramas we enact in our relationships and life pursuits. Essential to the encounter with the unconscious, and the reconciliation of the individual's consciousness with this broader world, is learning this symbolic language. Only through attention and openness to this world (which is quite foreign to the modern Western mind) is the individual able to harmonize his life with these suprapersonal archetypal forces.

Jung made the exploration of this "inner space" his life's work. He went equipped with a background in Freudian theory and with a seemingly inexhaustible knowledge of mythology, religion, and philosophy. Jung was especially knowledgeable in the symbolism of complex mystical traditions such as Gnosticism, Alchemy, Kabala, and similar traditions in Hinduism and Buddhism. From this foundation, Jung's life work was to make sense of the unconscious and its habit of revealing itself in symbolic form through archetypes of the collective unconscious. Later in life, Jung spoke of the transcendent function of the psyche, by which the conscious and unconscious are united. He believed this would lead to the full realization of the potential of the individual self.

Analytical psychology primarily explores how the collective unconscious, the part of consciousness that is cross-cultural and common to all human beings, influences personality. It is utilized not only for those with a mental disorder, but also for those who desire to promote their own psychological development and well-being. Jung's approach to psychology emphasized understanding the psyche through exploring the worlds of anthropology, astrology, alchemy, dreams, art, mythology, religion, and philosophy.

Jung was a strong believer in the importance of integration of opposites (e.g. masculine and feminine, thinking and feeling, science and spirituality). Though not the first to analyze dreams, his contributions to dream analysis were influential and extensive. Although he was a theoretical psychologist and practicing clinician for most of his life, many of his studies extend into other realms of the humanities: from comparative religion and philosophy, to criticism of art and literature. While these Jungian ideas are seldom mentioned in college psychology courses, they are often explored in humanities courses.

Although Jung learned many concepts and tools from Freud's method of psychoanalysis, such as the unconscious, dream analysis, and free association, many more pioneering psychological concepts were originally proposed by Jung. Some of these are:

The Archetype

Main article: Archetypes

Jung discovered that certain symbolic themes existed across all cultures, all epochs, and in every individual. Together these symbolic themes comprise "the archetypes of the collective unconscious.”

The Collective Unconscious

The collective unconscious refers to that part of a person's unconscious that is common to all human beings. Jung took on the task of exploring and attempting to discern the mysteries stored in the collective unconscious.

The Complex

Early in Jung's career he coined the term and described the concept of the "complex." A complex is an emotionally charged group of ideas or images. Complexes are the architects of dreams and of symptoms, the building blocks of the psyche, and the source of all human emotions. They operate relatively autonomously, and interfere with the intentions of the will, disturbing the memory and conscious performance. Jung stressed that complexes are not negative in themselves, but their effects often are.

Individuation

Jung used the process of individuation in pioneering the psychotherapy of the middle-aged and elderly, especially those who felt their lives had lost meaning. Many of these patients had lost their religious beliefs; Jung found that if they could rediscover their own meaning as expressed in dream and imagination, as well as through the exploration of mythology and religion, they would become more complete personalities. Jung also stated that individuation is a natural process of maturation inherent in the nature of human beings, and is not only an analytic process. He believed that man became whole, integrated, calm, and happy when the process of individuation was complete—when the conscious and unconscious have learned to live at peace and to complement one another.

Synchronicity

Jung defined the concept of synchronicity as two simultaneous events that occur coincidentally, that are not causally related but result in meaningful connection. Synchronicity is also defined as the meaningful coincidence of an inner image with an outer event, which can often let one see the world in a new light, especially if one responds very deeply, with the full involvement of his or her being to the meaning of the event. While Jung professed the importance of the psychological significance of synchronicity, he also said "I am equally interested, at times even more so, in the metaphysical aspect of this phenomena, and I cannot deny my fervent interest in this aspect."

Jung collaborated with quantum physicist Wolfgang Pauli and their common reflections went far beyond psychology and physics, entering into the realm where the two areas meet in the philosophy of nature. As a consequence of their collaboration, synchronicity was transformed from an empirical concept into a fundamental explanatory-interpretative principle. The work of Pauli and Jung in the area of synchronicity thus contributed to a more holistic worldview by bringing unity to mind and matter, psychology, philosophy (including metaphysics), and science.

The existence of synchronistic events contributed to Jung's hypothesis of an inherent unitary reality where psyche and matter are "two different aspects of the same thing,” because "they are included in one and the same world." Jung called this unus mundus.

Psychological Types

One of Jung's most important discoveries was his realization that by understanding the way we typically process information, we can gain insights into why we act and feel the way we do. Jung identified two core psychological processes that he termed "extravert" (as originally spelled by Jung and considered a variant of the word extrovert in the Merriam Webster Dictionary) and "introvert." In Jung's original usage, the extravert orientation finds meaning outside the self, preferring the external world of things, people, and activities. The introvert is introspective and finds meaning within, preferring their internal world of thoughts, feelings, fantasies, and dreams. Jung also identified four primary modes of experiencing the world: thinking, feeling, sensation, and intuition. He referred to these as the four functions.

Significant in Jung's theory is that "type preferences" are inborn and not socially constructed through interaction with the parents, family, culture and other external influences. Even so, the individual is impacted in the quality and strength of the development in his or her preferences. Nature and nurture are both at play. A supportive environment will facilitate inborn preference development; a contrary environment will impede or retard their natural development.

Psychology and Religion

Jung believed that the force of "Rationalism" had eroded man's spiritual values to a dangerous degree, leading to worldwide disorientation and dissociation. He said that we have become "dominated by the goddess Reason, who is our greatest and most tragic illusion." He researched anthropological documentation regarding what happens when a society loses its spiritual values—people lose the meaning of their lives, social organization disintegrates, and morals decay. Jung attributed this partially to spiritual leaders being more interested in protecting their institutions than understanding the mysteries of faith.

He was also concerned that "Mother Earth" had been reduced to mere matter rather than the profound emotional significance contained in the former image of the "Great Mother." As scientific understanding grew, so the world had become dehumanized. Jung believed that individuals feel isolated in the cosmos because they have ceased to be involved in nature and have become disconnected from their "unconscious identity" with natural phenomena.

Dreams, Jung believed, help to compensate for this enormous loss. He discovered that the psyche spontaneously produces images with a religious content, and is "by nature religious." Especially during the second half of life, he noted that numerous neuroses result from a disregard for this fundamental characteristic of the psyche. As our life becomes more rational, the symbols in our dreams keep us connected with the symbols of the mysteries of life. The symbols and archetypes are not static or mechanical, but come alive as the individual assigns meaning to them. He explained that the symbol-producing function of dreams is to bring the original mind into an advanced consciousness. The symbols are an attempt to unite and reconcile opposites within the psyche.

He reminded us that God speaks to us through dreams and visions. While the Catholic Church admits the occurrence of somnia a deo missa (dreams sent by God), rarely do Catholic thinkers make a serious attempt to understand dreams. Jung speculated that the study of individual and collective symbolism holds the solution to modern man's problems.

While Jung spoke in terms of archetypes and symbols in his scientific work, he spoke more personally of his relationship with God in his autobiography, Memories, Dreams and Reflections: "I find that all my thoughts circle around God like the planets around the sun, and are as irresistibly attracted by Him. I would feel it to be the grossest sin if I were to oppose any resistance to this force."

Influence

Jung has had an enduring influence both in psychology and beyond. Many writers, artists, musicians, film makers, theologians, and mythologists have found inspiration in Jung's work. Examples include mythologist Joseph Campbell, film maker George Lucas, and science fiction author Ursula K. LeGuin. Within the field of psychology, Jung's work has led to personality tests based on his psychological types, his concept of archetypes has formed the basis for Hillman's archetypal psychology, his wide-ranging interpretation of dreams and associations counteracted Freud's restricted (primarily sexual) approach, and his analytical psychology remains one of the pillars of depth psychology.

Alcoholics Anonymous

Jung's influence can sometimes be found in more unexpected quarters. Jung once treated an American patient suffering from chronic alcoholism. After working with the patient for some time, and achieving no significant progress, Jung told the man that his alcoholic condition was near to hopeless, save only the possibility of a spiritual experience. Jung noted that occasionally such experiences had been known to reform alcoholics where all else had failed.

The patient took Jung's advice seriously and set about seeking a personal spiritual experience. He returned home to the United States and joined a Christian evangelical church. He also told other alcoholics what Jung had told him about the importance of a spiritual experience. One of the alcoholics he told was Ebby Thatcher, a long-time friend and drinking buddy of William G. Wilson, co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.). Thatcher told Wilson about Jung's ideas. Wilson, who was finding it hard to maintain sobriety, was impressed and sought out his own spiritual experience. The influence of Jung ultimately found its way in the 12-step program of Alcoholics Anonymous, which has touched the lives of millions of people.

Application of Psychological Types

The popular Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), Kiersey-Bates Temperament Sorter (KBTS), and Socionics were all inspired by Jung's theory of psychological types. These tests are widely used instruments for personality analysis and as an effective management tool to help with team building, time management, problem solving, developing effective task groups, and communication improvement in large and small corporations. They are also used in career development as well as in relationship and marital counseling. Since tests based on Jung's types do not evaluate people as good or bad, their use encourages people to become more aware of personality traits in themselves and others, and subsequently improves relationships. The Jung Typology Test is available online.

In the field of family systems theory, the concept of psychological type holds potential as another way to understand the internal conflicts and alliances within the family, and thus to support family counseling. Parents can often be seen to have concern about children who operate from type preferences different from theirs and run the risk of encouraging, and at times coercing, children into a false personality. "Type-alike" family members will naturally gravitate toward each other.

Archetypal Psychology

Archetypal psychology was founded by James Hillman, who trained at the Jung Institute in Zurich. Hillman acknowledges that archetypal psychology originated with Jung, although it developed in a somewhat different direction. Whereas Jung’s psychology focused on the self, its dynamics and its constellations of archetypes (ego, anima, animus, shadow), Hillman’s archetypal psychology relativizes and deliteralizes the ego and focuses on the psyche, or soul, itself and "the fundamental fantasies that animate all life."

Depth Psychology

Main article: Depth psychology

Depth psychology is most strongly influenced by the work of Carl Jung, especially his emphasis on questions of psyche, human development, and personality development (or individuation). It is a broad term that refers to any psychological approach examining the depth (the hidden or deeper parts) of human experience.

Popular Culture

Jung's ideas, especially the archetypes, have strongly influenced popular culture and media, such as novels, films, video games, and television programming. Here are examples that use the Wise Old Man archetype:

  • Albus Dumbledore from J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series
  • Auron from Final Fantasy X
  • Gandalf from J.R.R. Tolkien's Lord of the Rings series
  • Allanon from Terry Brooks' Shannara series
  • Brom from Christopher Paolini's Inheritance Trilogy.
  • Abbot Mortimer from Brian Jacques' novel Redwall.
  • Morpheus from The Matrix
  • Thufir Hawat from Dune
  • Yoda, Obi-Wan Kenobi, and Qui-Gon Jinn from the Star Wars films.

Recommended Reading

There is expansive literature on Jungian thought. For a good, short and easily accessible introduction to Jung's thought read:

  • Chapter 1 of Man and His Symbols, conceived and edited by Jung. ISBN 0440351839 (The rest of this book also provides a good overview.)

Other good introductory texts include:

  • The Portable Jung, edited by Joseph Campbell. Viking Portable, ISBN 0140150706
  • Edward F. Edinger, Ego and Archetype. Shambala, ISBN 087773576X
  • Another recommended tool for navigating Jung's works is Robert Hopcke's book, A Guided Tour of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung, ISBN 1570624054. He offers short, lucid summaries of all of Jung's major ideas and suggests readings from Jung's and others' work that best present that idea.

Good texts in various areas of Jungian thought:

  • Edward F. Edinger, The Mystery of the Coniunctio, ISBN 0919123678. A good explanation of Jung's foray into the symbolism of alchemy as it relates to individuation and individual religious experience. Many of the alchemical symbols recur in contemporary dreams (with creative additions from the unconscious, e.g., space travel, internet, computers)
  • James A Hall, M.D., Jungian Dream Interpretation, ISBN 0919123120. A brief, well-structured overview of the use of dreams in therapy.
  • James Hillman, "Healing Fiction," ISBN 0882143638. Covers Jung, Alder, and Freud and their various contributions to understanding the soul.
  • Andrew Samuels, Critical Dictionary of Jungian Analysis, ISBN 0415059100
  • June Singer, Boundaries of the Soul, ISBN 0385475292. On psychotherapy
  • Marion Woodman, The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation, ISBN 0919123201. The recovery of feminine values in women (and men). There are many examples of clients' dreams, by an experienced analyst.

And a more academic text:

  • Andrew Samuels, The Political Psyche. Routledge, ISBN 0415081025. Difficult, but useful.

For the Jung-Freud relationship:

  • Kerr, John. 1993. A Most Dangerous Method: The Story of Jung, Freud, and Sabina Spielrein. Knopf. ISBN 0679404120

On synchronicity:

  • Donati, Marialuisa. 2004. “Beyond synchronicity: the worldview of Carl Gustav Jung and Wolfgang Pauli.” Published in Journal of Analytical Psychology 49:707–728.

Jung bibliography

Jung, C.G., with Adler, Gerhard, Fordham, Michael, Read, Herbert, and McGuire, (editors). 2000. Collected Works of C.G. Jung: 21 Volume Hardcover Set (Collected Works of C.G. Jung). Bollingen. The collected edition of Jung's works, in English translation. ISBN 0691074763

Works arranged by original publication date if known:

  • Jung, C. G. 1906. Studies in Word-association. Routledge & Kegan Paul. (reissued 1969). ISBN 0710063768
  • Jung, C. G., H. G. Baynes, and C. F. Baynes. 1928. Contributions to Analytical Psychology. London: Routledge and Kegan Paul.
  • Jung, C. G., and S. Shamdasani. 1932. The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga: notes of a seminar by C.G. Jung. 1996 ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  • Jung, C. G. 1933. Modern Man in Search of a Soul. London: Kegan Paul Trench Trubner, 1955 ed. Harvest Books ISBN 0156612062
  • Jung, C. G., and S. M. Dell. 1939. The Integration of the Personality. Farrar and Rinehart. ASIN B0008569ZC.
  • Jung, C. G. 1947. Essays on Contemporary Events. London: Kegan Paul.
  • Jung, C. G. 1957. The Undiscovered Self (Present and Future). 1959 ed. New York: American Library. 1990 ed. Bollingen ISBN 0691018944
  • Jung, C. G., and V. S. De Laszlo. 1958. Psyche and Symbol: A Selection from the Writings of C.G. Jung. Garden City, NY: Doubleday.
  • Jung, C. G., and V. S. De Laszlo. 1959. Basic Writings. New York: Modern Library.
  • Jung, C. G., and A. Jaffe. 1962. Memories, Dreams, Reflections. London: Collins. This is Jung's autobiography, recorded and edited by Aniela Jaffe, ISBN 0679723951
  • Jung, C. G., R. I. Evans, and E. Jones. 1964. Conversations with Carl Jung and Reactions from Ernest Jones. New York: Van Nostrand.
  • Jung, C. G. 1964. Man and His Symbols. Garden City, NY: Doubleday, (reissued 1968, Laurel) ISBN 0440351839
  • Jung, C. G., and J. Campbell. 1976. The Portable Jung. New York: Penguin Books. ISBN 0140150706
  • Jung, C. G., C. L. Rothgeb, S. M. Clemens, and National Clearinghouse for Mental Health Information (U.S.). 1978. Abstracts of the Collected Works of C.G. Jung. Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
  • Jung, C. G. 1983. The Essential Jung. Edited by Antony Storr. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, ISBN 0691024553
  • Jung, C. G. 1987. Dictionary of Analytical Psychology. London: Ark Paperbacks.
  • Jung, C. G., S. Wagner, G. Wagner, and L. Van der Post. 1990. The World Within. C.G. Jung in his own words [videorecording]. New York, NY: Kino International, dist. by Insight Media.
  • Jung, C. G., and R.F.C. Hull. 1992. Psychological Types, rev. ed. London: Routledge. ISBN 0415071771.
  • Jung, C. G., and J. Chodorow. 1997. Jung on Active Imagination. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  • Jung, C. G., and J. L. Jarrett. 1998. Jung's Seminar on Nietzsche's Zarathustra, abridged ed. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press.
  • Jung, C. G., and Wolfgang Pauli. 2001. Atom and Archetype: The Pauli/Jung Letters, 1932–1958. Edited by C. A. Meier. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. ISBN 0691012075
  • Jung, C. G., and M. Sabini. 2002. The Earth Has a Soul: the nature writings of C.G. Jung. Berkeley, CA: North Atlantic Books. ISBN 1556433794.

An early writing by Jung, dating from around 1917, was his poetic work, the Seven Sermons to the Dead. Written in the persona of the second-century religious teacher Basilides of Alexandria, it explores ancient religious and spiritual themes, including those of Gnosticism. This work is published in some editions of Memories, Dreams, Reflections.

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