Carl Jung

Biography

Carl Gustav Jung was born on July 26, 1875, in Kesswil, Switzerland. He was a Swiss psychologist, psychiatrist, philosopher, cultural scholar, and educator. Jung is regarded as the founder of analytical psychology. He worked in teaching, psychotherapy, psychology, psychiatry, psychoanalysis, and was also an essayist and artist. From 1907 to 1912, he was a close collaborator of Sigmund Freud. Among his significant works are "Memories, Dreams, Reflections," "Symbols of Transformation," "Psychological Types," "Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle," "Man and His Symbols," "Psychology and Alchemy," "Mysterium Coniunctionis," "The Modern Myth: On Things Observed in the Sky," and "Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious." Carl Gustav Jung died on June 6, 1961, in Küsnacht, Switzerland.