Carl jung biography and theory of faye

Carl Gustav Jung was born in 1875, the son of a minister of the Swiss Reformed Church.

Carl jung biography and theory of faye lee

From an early age he took an interest in theological issues as well as in the world of nature that he explored in the woods near his home in a Basel suburb. He studied medicine at the city’s university and decided to specialize in psychiatry since it satisfied his passion for both science and the humanities.

Joining the staff of the Burghölzli Hospital in Zurich he became the chief assistant of its director Eugen Bleuler. While there he conducted word association experiments that established the existence of emotional complexes.

He also published his clinical observations in the landmark study The Psychology of Dementia Praecox (1907), an illness that Bleuler renamed “schizophrenia.”

It was at this time that Jung became acquainted with Sigmund Freud and the two men entered into a close personal relationship.

Jung became Freud’s “crown prince” and served as the first presid