Carl Jung

Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss <a href="/facts/Psychiatrist/hS7EnAU6">psychiatrist</a>, <a href="/facts/Psychotherapist/n2hDjaop">psychotherapist</a>, and <a href="/facts/Psychologist/J4l4QdX2">psychologist</a> who founded the school of <a href="/facts/Analytical_psychology/QDxb1bFd">analytical psychology</a>. A prolific author of <a href="/facts/Carl_Jung_publications/KyovBSsj">over 20 books</a>, illustrator, and correspondent, Jung was a complex and convoluted academic, best known for his concept of <a href="/facts/Jungian_archetypes/S5pSQUzP">archetypes</a>. Alongside contemporaries <a href="/facts/Sigmund_Freud/KKIYbom9">Freud</a> and <a href="/facts/Alfred_Adler/4G9Q00PX">Adler</a>, Jung became one of the most influential psychologists of the early <a href="/facts/XX_century/0Gq5Ivn7">20th century</a> and has fostered not only scholarship, but also popular interest.
Jung proposed and developed the concepts of the extraverted and the introverted personality, archetypes, and the collective unconscious. His work has been influential in psychiatry and in the study of religion, literature, and related fields.<a href="https://www.britannica.com/biography/Carl-Jung">[1]</a>
Jung's work has been influential in the fields of <a href="/facts/Psychiatry/uzS7vEo0">psychiatry</a>, <a href="/facts/Anthropology/W6WK1C3a">anthropology</a>, <a href="/facts/Archaeology/K3Q5P38R">archaeology</a>, <a href="/facts/Literature/CmUDxokU">literature</a>, <a href="/facts/Philosophy/zAH5PVD6">philosophy</a>, <a href="/facts/Psychology/duoqW7Sz">psychology</a>, and <a href="/facts/Religious_studies/evl1y5M8">religious studies</a>. He worked as a research scientist at the <a href="/facts/Burgh%25C3%25B6lzli/jWXQWBw9">Burghölzli</a> psychiatric hospital in <a href="/facts/Zurich/dXpgq7df">Zurich</a>, under <a href="/facts/Eugen_Bleuler/LgJF5WWY">Eugen Bleuler</a>. Jung established himself as an influential mind, developing a friendship with <a href="/facts/Sigmund_Freud/KKIYbom9">Sigmund Freud</a>, founder of <a href="/facts/Psychoanalysis/gYCbGpPv">psychoanalysis</a>, conducting a <a href="/facts/The_Freud%2fJung_Letters/3CWoeJy8">lengthy correspondence</a> paramount to their joint vision of human psychology. Jung is widely regarded as one of the most influential psychologists in history.
Freud saw the younger Jung not only as the heir he had been seeking to take forward his "new science" of psychoanalysis but as a means to legitimize his own work: Freud and other contemporary psychoanalysts were Jews facing rising antisemitism in Europe, and Jung was <a href="/facts/Christians/15hE11VR">Christian</a>. Freud secured Jung's appointment as president of Freud's newly founded <a href="/facts/International_Psychoanalytical_Association/Y8HR1ARy">International Psychoanalytical Association</a>. Jung's research and personal vision, however, made it difficult to follow his older colleague's doctrine, and they parted ways. This division was painful for Jung and resulted in the establishment of Jung's analytical psychology, as a comprehensive system separate from psychoanalysis. 
Among the central concepts of analytical psychology is <a href="/facts/Individuation/fAU9RhzC">individuation</a>—the lifelong psychological process of differentiation of the self out of each individual's conscious and unconscious elements. Jung considered it to be the main task of human development. He created some of the best-known psychological concepts, including <a href="/facts/Synchronicity/T3EP7j2T">synchronicity</a>, <a href="/facts/Jungian_archetypes/S5pSQUzP">archetypal phenomena</a>, the <a href="/facts/Collective_unconscious/PVzLWU5q">collective unconscious</a>, the <a href="/facts/Complex_(psychology)/sCLNP584">psychological complex</a>, and <a href="/facts/Extraversion_and_introversion/MUQ9pRhe">extraversion and introversion</a>. His treatment of American businessman and politician <a href="/facts/Rowland_Hazard_III/CVnyLqmo">Rowland Hazard</a> in 1926 with his conviction that <a href="/facts/Alcoholism/KGPzpChp">alcoholics</a> may recover if they have a "<a href="/facts/Religious_experience/QY5LYzon">vital spiritual (or religious) experience</a>" played a crucial role in the chain of events that led to the formation of <a href="/facts/Alcoholics_Anonymous/owLBcGtT">Alcoholics Anonymous</a>. Jung was an <a href="/facts/Artist/7kfrXB5P">artist</a>, <a href="/facts/Artisan/XNzAT1ua">craftsman</a>, builder, and prolific writer. Many of his works were not published until after his death, and some remain unpublished.

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Carl Jung