biography
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Jung, Carl (Gustav)
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pronunciation:
[yung]
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| male
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| lived:
| (1875–1961)
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| biography:
| Psychiatrist, born in Kesswil, NE Switzerland. He studied medicine at Basel, and worked at the Burghölzli mental clinic in Zürich (1900–9). He met Freud in Vienna in 1907, became his leading collaborator, and was president of the International Psychoanalytic Association (1911–14). He became increasingly critical of Freud's approach, and Wandlungen und Symbole der Libido (1911–12, trans The Psychology of the Unconscious) caused a break in 1913. He then developed his own theories, which he called ‘analytical psychology’ to distinguish them from Freud's psychoanalysis and Adler's individual psychology. Jung's approach included a description of psychological types (‘extraversion/introversion’); the exploration of the ‘collective unconscious’; and the concept of the psyche as a ‘self-regulating system’ expressing itself in the process of ‘individuation’. He held chairs at Basel and Zürich. |
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