2023-06-06 19:13:18
On June 6, Carl Jung, the renowned Swiss psychiatrist, died.
The place of his death was in the Canton of Zurich, one of the main cities of his country.
Jung left a vast legacy in the field of psychology, which earned him to be considered an eminence of science.
His mind unfolded thoughts that allowed him to describe psychology in an original way, addressing areas never before investigated by scientists or philosophers.
He created some of the best-known psychological concepts, such as synchronicity, archetypal phenomena, the collective unconscious, the psychological complex, and extraversion and introversion.
Swiss Carl Jung was born on July 26, 1875.
As a child he showed a particular behavior. As an adult he interpreted it by saying that he was happiest when he was isolated with his thoughts, while he lived with the toys.
As a young man he graduated as a doctor in his country and as a psychologist in Paris.
However, he was introduced to anthropology, the comparative study of religions, mythology, as well as linguistics.
Jung was disruptive within the established academic environment by delving into parapsychology, alchemy, the occult, and magic.
As avant-garde as he was in the discipline, he came to mark notorious differences with his mentor: Sigmund Freud.
He remarked that dreams were not related to everyday life, but that there were anticipatory, parapsychological, traumatic and prophetic ones.
In this way, Jung challenged the father of Psychoanalysis and the modern Psychology of the Unconscious.
Freud had appointed him his successor.
Renowned in the world of psychology, Jung was accused of sympathizing with Nazi ideas, although he strongly denied it.
50 years after the end of World War II, declassified files from the United States showed a surprising fact about the scientist: in the war years, Jung was a spy who informed the American government.
But science remembers him as the creator of analytical psychology. In addition to being one of the main responsible for discovering the psychological process of differentiation of the Self from the conscious and unconscious elements of each individual.
Jung performed the so-called “association experiment.” This is a testing method used to reveal affectively significant clusters of ideas in the unconscious area of psychology.
In 1904, Jung began a close relationship with Freud after sending him publications. The texts were bridges to build a friendship that lasted until 1913. Freud considered Jung’s ideas unscientific. Jung accused Freud of narrow-mindedness.
Jung’s idyll with the father of psychoanalysis began after reading “The Interpretation of Dreams.” The Swiss found that his own ideas and observations were basically confirmed and promoted. Later, Jung developed the discovery of the mysteries of the unconscious.
In this sense, an important concept was the individual and collective unconscious, the latter is inherited, ideas that we already possess at birth and that is within us at an unconscious level.
Among his most outstanding texts are: “Two essays on analytical psychology”, “Psychological Types” and “Psychology and Alchemy”.
The writer Victoria Ocampo invited Jung several times to come to Argentina, which never materialized.
Jung was a prolific author and was awarded several honorary doctorates by major universities around the world.
The academic discipline that deals with the study and analysis of the behavior and mental processes of individuals sheltered it as one of its main references.
On June 6, Carl Jung, the renowned Swiss psychiatrist, died in Zurich.
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