A Journey Into The Mind Of

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A Journey Into The Mind OfCarl Jung
"Everything that irritates us about others can
lead us to an understanding of ourselves."
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Who is Carl Jung?

• Carl Jung was born in Kesswill Switzerland
  (1875).
• As a child he was interested in history,
  archaeology, and philosophy.
• He studied medicine at the University of Basel
  and discovered he had a passion for psychiatry.
  He became a psychiatrist as it gave him the
  opportunity to study both the spiritual and
  factual sides of the world.
• For 9 years he was an assistant physician at a
  Psychiatric Hospital
• He studied Schizophrenia extensively.

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His Early Career

• In 1907 Jung went to Vienna to meet Freud where
  they studied along side each other for a number
  of years. They developed their own theories and
  corresponded through letters.
• They came to parting ways because Jung disagreed
  with Freuds belief that the sexual component was
  the only part of the human personality. Jung also
  felt Freud was too narrow-minded about his views
  on the unconscious mind and dream interpretation.
  Freuds main theories were that our sexual libido
  controlled our unconscious thoughts and when
  dreaming it was our sexual thoughts that
  controled the content of these dreams.

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His Early Career Cont.

• His first ideas were published in Psychology of
  the Unconscious (it contained much about
  mythological content and listed parallels between
  myths and psychotic fantasies).
• He went on to develop his own theory called
  analytic psychology, for half a century he wrote
  religiously about personality in regards to
  symbolic, mythological, and spiritual views.

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His Early Career Cont.

• In his personal life he spent much of his time
  deep in self-discovery.
• In 1921 he published Psychological Types included
  his perspective of different personality types
  and the relationship between the conscious and
  unconscious.

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His Major Theories

• Focused on the unconscious and conscious mindhe
  believed that the unconscious played more of a
  role in controlling our thought process
  (especially during dreaming)
• The collective unconscious was also more
  dominant factor in the development of human
  personality

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His Major Theories Cont

• He believed in two personality types
• Introvert someone who keeps to themselves and
  is emotionally self-sufficient
• Extrovert- someone who is outgoing and use their
  psychological power to draw people towards them

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A Final Word on Carl Jung

•     Jungs theories and beliefs are still used
  amoung therapists today
•     Much of his work can be applied to dream
  interpretation
•     Due to poor health he retired and started
  teaching in 1947
• He died in Zulrich 1961