Carl Gustav Jung - Primer of Jungian Psychology :: Biographies

Carl Gustav Jung - Primer of Jungian Psychology Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was a son of a minister in Switzerland. Hewas born on July 26, in the grim village of Kesswil on Lake Constance. Hewas named after his grandfather, a professor of medicine at the Universityof Basel. He was the oldest child and only surviving son of a Swiss Reformpastor. Two brothers died in infancy before Jung was born. Jungs fetchwas a neurotic and often fought with his father. Father was usually lonelyand actually irritable. When the child could non take his mothers depressionsand his parents fights, he sought refuge in the attic, where he playedwith a wooden mannikin. Carl was exposed to death first in life, since hisfather was a minister and attended umpteen funerals, fetching his son with him.Also, Jung saw galore(postnominal) fishermen get killed in the waterfalls and also manypigs get slaughtered. When he was eleven, he went to a school in Basel, metmany rich people and realized tha t he was poor, compared to them. He likedto meditate very much divulgeside of class and detested math and carnal educationclasses. Actually, gym class used to give him fainting spells (neurosis)and his father in a bad way(p) that Jung wouldnt make a good living because of hisspells. After Carl found out about his fathers concern, the faintssuddenly stopped, and Carl became much more studious. He had to decide his profession. His choices include archeology,history, medicine, and philosophy. He decided to go into medicine, partlybecause of his grandfather. Carl went to the University of Basel and hadto decide past what report of medicine he was going to go into. Afterreading a admit on psychiatry, he decided that this was the field for him,although psychiatry was not a respectable field at the time. Jung becamean assistant at the Burgholzli psychic hospital in Zurich, a famous medicalhospital. He analyze under Eugen Bleuler, who was a famous psychiatristwho defined s chizophrenia. Jung was also influenced by Freud with whom helater became good friends. Freud called him his crown-prince. Theirrelationship ended when Jung wrote a book called Symbols ofTransformation. Jung disagreed with Freuds fundamental idea that a symbolis a disguised histrionics of a repressed wish. I will go into thatlater. After rending up with Freud, Jung had a 2 year period of non-productivity, but then he came out with his Psychological Types, a famous