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Born: July 25 1875

Died: 0505 06 19611961

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Influences: Sigmund Freud, Otto Gross, Friedrich Nietzsche, Emanuel Swedenborg, Schopenhauer, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, Sabina Spielrein, Basilides, Ludwig Binswanger, Henri Bergson, Eugen Bleuler, Lao Tzu

Carl Gustav Jung , often referred to as C. G. Jung, was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. Jung proposed and developed the concepts of extraversion 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 , a popular psychometric instrument, has been developed from Jung's theory of psychological types.

Though he was a practising 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", spirituality and the New Age movement has been immense.

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C.G. Jung

Psychology Science Health

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Books from C.G. Jung

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

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Man and His Symbols

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Modern Man in Search of a Soul

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The Undiscovered Self

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The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious (Collected Works 9i)

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The Red Book: Liber Novus

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Psychological Types

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Synchronicity: An Acausal Connecting Principle

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Dreams

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Psychology and Alchemy (Collected Works 12)

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Psychology and Religion

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Answer to Job

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The Essential Jung: Selected Writings

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Four Archetypes

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Aion (Collected Works 9ii)

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Psychology of the Unconscious

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The Undiscovered Self/Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams

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Symbols of Transformation (Collected Works 5)

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Two Essays on Analytical Psychology (Collected Works 7)

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Psychiatric Studies (Collected Works, Vol 1)

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Analytical Psychology: Its Theory and Practice

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The Development of Personality (Collected Works 17)

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Flying Saucers: A Modern Myth of Things Seen in the Skies

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The Earth Has a Soul: The Nature Writings of C.G. Jung

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The Psychology of Kundalini Yoga: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1932

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جدلية الأنا واللاوعي

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The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature (Collected Works 15)

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Mysterium Coniunctionis (Collected Works 14)

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The Basic Writings of C.G. Jung

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Man and His Symbols: Approaching the Unconscious

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