Over the following 15 years, Jung compiled what was eventually published as the Liber Novus or the Red Book. He spent several years in isolation documenting his experiences. He encouraged these visions and recorded everything. Instead of letting this set him back, he viewed it as a positive and sought to learn from it and study it. When he was 38, he had what he deemed a “confrontation with the unconscious” - which consisted of disturbing visions and voices not dissimilar to the symptoms of schizophrenia. Throughout Jung’s life, he experienced exceptionally strange and vivid dreams.
He was especially concerned with his mother’s hysteria and depression and his father’s failing belief in religion. He viewed himself as having two personalities - he believed he was both a schoolboy living in the current era and an influential and authoritarian man from the 18th century.Įarly on, Jung noticed pathological behavior in both his parents, which he often tried to resolve. He describes his childhood as lonely but was enriched by a vivid imagination. He wrote about his early childhood in his memoir. Growing up, his mother was eccentric and depressed. Birth & DeathĬarl Gustave Jung was born in 1910 in Kesswil, Switzerland. This was something he embraced in his late 30s after deciding it was an excellent learning opportunity.įrom this self-experimentation came some of Jung’s most interesting and contested ideas on the origin of human consciousness. Throughout his life, Jung experienced bouts of schizophrenia and delirium. Jung was incredibly intelligent but also suffered greatly.
His models are often used as the basis for psychedelic-assisted therapy today. He developed the model of analytical psychology (Jungian Analysis) - which was well ahead of his time and is more reflective of modern therapy. Carl Jung was a Swiss psychologist, famous for coining terms like extroversion and introversion, collective unconsciousness, archetypes, individuation, synchronicity, and shadow.
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