The World of Jung

Carl Gustav Jung 26  July 1875 – 6 June 1961), often referred to as C. G. Jung, was a Swiss  psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. Jung  proposed and developed the concepts of extroversion and introversion;  archetypes, and the collective unconscious. His work has been  influential in psychiatry and in the study of religion, philosophy,  archeology, anthropology, literature, and related fields. He was a  prolific writer, many of whose works were not published until after his  death.

The  central concept of analytical psychology is individuation—the  psychological process of integrating the opposites, including the  conscious with the unconscious, while still maintaining their relative  autonomy.  Jung considered individuation to be the central process of  human development.

Jung  created some of the best known psychological concepts, including the  archetype, the collective unconscious, the complex, and synchronicity.  The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a popular psychometric  instrument, has been developed from Jung's theory of psychological  types.

Jung  saw the human psyche as "by nature religious" and made this  religiousness the focus of his explorations. Jung is one of the best  known contemporary contributors to dream analysis and symbolization.

Though  he was a practicing clinician and considered himself to be a scientist,  much of his life's work was spent exploring tangential areas such as  Eastern and Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology, and sociology, as  well as literature and the arts. Jung's interest in philosophy and the  occult led many to view him as a mystic, although his ambition was to be  seen as a man of science. His influence on popular psychology, the  "Psychologization of religion",[8]spirituality and the New Age movement  has been immense.

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