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C.G. Jung

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Born: July 25 1875

Died: 0505 06 19611961

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Carl Gustav Jung , often referred to as C. G. Jung, was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. Jung proposed and developed the concepts of extraversion and introversion; archetypes, and the collective unconscious. His work has been influential in psychiatry and in the study of religion, philosophy, archeology, anthropology, literature, and related fields. He was a prolific writer, many of whose works were not published until after his death.

The central concept of analytical psychology is individuation—the psychological process of integrating the opposites, including the conscious with the unconscious, while still maintaining their relative autonomy. Jung considered individuation to be the central process of human development.

Jung created some of the best known psychological concepts, including the archetype, the collective unconscious, the complex, and synchronicity. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator , a popular psychometric instrument, has been developed from Jung's theory of psychological types.

Though he was a practising clinician and considered himself to be a scientist, much of his life's work was spent exploring tangential areas such as Eastern and Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology, and sociology, as well as literature and the arts. Jung's interest in philosophy and the occult led many to view him as a mystic, although his ambition was to be seen as a man of science. His influence on popular psychology, the "psychologization of religion", spirituality and the New Age movement has been immense.

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C.G. Jung

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Books from C.G. Jung

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Man and His Symbols

The Undiscovered Self

The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious

An Introduction to Zen Buddhism

The Portable Jung

Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle

Dreams

The Origins and History of Consciousness

The Secret of the Golden Flower: A Chinese Book of Life

Psychiatric Studies

The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung

The Basic Writings of C.G. Jung

The Red Book: A Reader's Edition

Dört Arketip

Mysterium Coniunctionis

Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies

Modern Man in Search of a Soul

Alchemical Studies

The Freud/Jung Letters