CARL GUSTAV JUNG
Birth: 26th July 1875/Death : 6th June 1961
Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist, influential thinker and founding father of analytical psychology. It was in some aspects a response to Sigmund Freud's psychoanalysis. Jung was the son of a philologist and pastor. His childhood was lonely, though enriched by a vivid imagination, and from an early age he observed the behaviour of his parents and teachers, which he tried to resolve.
Especially concerned together with his father's failing belief in religion, he tried to speak to him his own experience of God. Though the elder Jung was in some ways a sort and tolerant man, neither he nor his son succeeded in understanding one another . Jung seemed destined to become a minister, for there have been variety of clergymen on each side of his family. In his teens he discovered philosophy and skim widely, and this, along side the disappointments of his boyhood, led him to forsake the strong family tradition and to review medicine and become a psychiatrist. Jung's unique and broadly influential approach to psychology has emphasized understanding the mind through exploring the worlds of dreams, art, mythology, world religions and philosophy. Although he was a theoretical psychologist and practicing clinician for many of his life, much of his life's work was spent exploring other realms, including Eastern and Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology, sociology as well as literature
Jung emphasized the importance of balance and harmony. He cautioned that modern humans rely too heavily on science and logic and would benefit firom integrating spirituality and appreciation of the unconscious realm. It is for this reason that Jungian ideas are not typically included in curriculum of most major universities psychology departments, but are occasionally explored in humanities department.
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