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Carl Jung's early life
- The Swiss psychologist was born in 1875 and died in 1961. His father was a village pastor. His mother was a strong figure though she seems to have had a split personality.
- Jung's childhood was troubled and he developed a schizoid personality, becoming withdrawn and aloof. He thought he had two personalities and named them No. 1 and No. 2. Later he renamed his personalities ego and the self.
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Carl Jung was a brilliant student
At university, Jung proved to be a brilliant student, graduating in medicine and natural science.
His doctorate was on "the psychology and pathology of so-called occult phenomena." Here he laid the foundations for two key ideas:
- The unconscious contains part-perso...
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Carl Jung made a name for himself
- Jung worked with Eugen Bleuler, the doctor who invented the word "schizophrenia."
- Jung developed the word association test of Francis Galton, the cousin of Charles Darwin.
- Jung had an electric personality. At university, he gave public talks. Women flocked to him before ...
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What Carl Jung is known for
Carl Jung introduced the theory of personality types. You have used some of Jung's ideas if you think of yourself as introvert or extrovert; if you have ever used the Myers-Briggs personality or spirituality test.
Two ideas central to his theory: the ego and the se...
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