Carl Jung

Carl Gustav Jung (July 26, 1875 – June 6, 1961) is a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founds analytical psychology.

Jung's work is influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, and religious studies.

Jung works as a research scientist at the famous Burghölzli hospital, under Eugen Bleuler.

During this time, he comes to the attention of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis.

The two men conduct a lengthy correspondence and collaborate, for a while, on a joint vision of human psychology.

Freud sees the younger Jung as the heir he had been seeking to take forward his "new science" of psychoanalysis and to this end secures his appointment as President of his newly founded International Psychoanalytical Association.

]Jung's research and personal vision, however, makes it impossible for him to bend to his older colleague's doctrine, and a schism becomes inevitable.

This division is personally painful for Jung, and it is to have historic repercussions lasting well into the modern day.

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 considers it to be the main task of human development.

He creates some of the best known psychological concepts, including synchronicity, archetypal phenomena, the collective unconscious, the psychological complex, and extraversion and introversion.

Jung is also an artist, craftsman and builder as well as a prolific writer.

Many of his works will not be published until after his death and some still await publication.