Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. Jung’s work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology, and religious studies. Jung worked as a research scientist at the Burghölzli psychiatric hospital, in Zurich, under Eugen Bleuler. During this time, he came to the attention of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis. The two men conducted a lengthy correspondence and collaborated, for a while, on a joint vision of human psychology.
Freud saw the younger Jung as the heir he had been seeking to take forward his “new science” of psychoanalysis and to this end secured his appointment as president of his newly founded International Psychoanalytical Association. Jung’s research and personal vision, however, made it difficult for him to follow his older colleague’s doctrine and they parted ways. This division was personally 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 individuation—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 synchronicity, archetypal phenomena, the collective unconscious, the psychological complex and extraversion and introversion.
Jung was also an artist, craftsman, builder and a prolific writer. Many of his works were not published until after his death and some are still awaiting publication. – wikipedia
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good one Lisa 🙂
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Thank you!
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He gave so much and was so brilliant. Nice Lisa.. ❣️
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Yes he did, Cindy ❤
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Great share Li. I love this quote about loneliness.
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Thank you, Sadje. I’m going down the list with my favorite saved quotes at goodreads, and I think it is a good way to show who I am through them.
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You’re welcome my friend
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I love the quote…but what an interesting man. He stuck to his own vision which I have to appreciate….it would have been easy to go with Freud. Love the video and when he talks about his mother and father.
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Yes, I love the video also. I was actually so surprised there were videos available of him being interviewed. Seems like he lived in another age from us, but it really isn’t that long ago we were fumbling with trying to understand mental health and mental illness. I really don’t think we’ve made much progress since Jung’s time either! I think we’re looking in the wrong way and are in baby steps in effective treatment.
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You can tell it’s from a long time ago on how they speak properly…that is mean I guess lol. I agree when need people like him now.
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Sometimes when I watch these interviews of extraordinary individuals being asked outright clueless questions, it’s funny to see how they respond. I can see why celebrities hate giving interviews, but I’m glad they agree to do them. Otherwise we wouldn’t have the footage to watch.
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They do ask some stupid questions at time and yes I get why some hate the press. The best more modern (in our lifetime) interviews I’ve seen are the ones that Dick Cavett did…he didn’t interview…he had conversations.
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Good to know, Max. I remember seeing some by Elvis Costello that were good when he had a TV series but forgot the name of the show and haven’t been able to find it on YouTube. I saw a couple of episodes of “Storytellers” which I think was on VH1 that were also good.
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I like the Storytellers feature on VH1 and I like Charlie Rose…he did some good interviews. Cavett would devote an entire show sometimes to a guest like Marlon Brando and Bette Davis.
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Thanks for the heads-up. Colbert does that once in awhile.
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Interesting intro on the video, he was quite the renaissance man.
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Yes he is!
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I think you could spend several lifetimes investigating his ideas and work. (K)
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Kerfe, I think you’re right. Take a look at The Red Book! I love where he says in the interview he was walking in a mist until his 11th year and then walked out of the mist. I’d love to learn more about that incident.
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Do you know the blog symbolreader? He did a whole series on The Red Book–very interesting.
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No, I don’t, but now I want to. Thanks for the heads-up!
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You’re welcome!
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Kerfe, I am getting goosebumps right now. I just went to the blog and today’s post is about “His Dark Materials” which is a book series but also made into an HBO series. Guess what is waiting for me at the library to pick up? Yep, the HBO series. Also I’m getting deja vu right now typing this comment. I love it!
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I love synchronicities like that. I read the first book to one or both of my daughters and they finished the series on their own. But I always meant to finish myself. The books are around somewhere…
As to symbolreader, his posts are always so full of ideas and information. I can’t remember how I discovered it, but I really enjoyed the Jung series especially.
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Me too. I started watching it last night and see that they already made a movie out of this, with Daniel Craig and Nicole Kidman, so I’m disappointed and won’t be watching the rest.
I am now following symbolreader and will try to get to their blog at some point.
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Such an interesting man. Enjoyed this!
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Happy you did. Yes, he is.
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That really is amazing to see him talking, and it does seem like far, far, ancient history… but it isn’t THAT far. And like you said, not much progress in the mental health area, similar to when I see the old MLK speeches and people marching…and some surface progress happened there, but not for the hatreds that run deep down. What the hell? It’s so much easier to remain the same instead of undergoing genuine change, I guess.
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Stacey, well-said. With racism, prejudice, etc. it does take dedicated effort to deprogram oneself and because it is so pervasive I’m sure there are things we do and ways we perceive we aren’t even aware of.
With Jung, I like what he said about when he and Freud parted ways. Sounds like Freud was fixed in his beliefs where Jung stayed open-minded, but I know I read somewhere that Freud presented a theory about hysteria in women who were claiming they were victims of incest that was soundly rejected by the professional community, only later to present his theories on female hysteria that said they had an unconscious desire for their fathers. Wish I knew more about it, as a little bit of knowledge can be a dangerous thing.
Stacey, I’m working on an 8000 word short story right now and hope to have in done in about a month. Would you be willing to take a look at it for me with an editor’s eye?
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Yeah, incest comes from an unconscious desire for their fathers. Or more like a conscious desire of the father for them, especially back when women had no voice. Bleeeeh!
Li, I’d be thrilled and honored to read your story. Let me know as soon as you’re done! :):):)
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Yes, I love how he flipped the script there.
YAY!!!! Will let you know when I’m done 🙂
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