According to Jung individuation plays a major role in human development. He was known to have founded some of the well known psychological concept which included collective unconscious, complex and synchronicity. One of the most popular and widely applicable personality test Myers-Briggs type indicator is designed and developed based on the theories of Jung. Born on 26th July Thurgau, Switzerland he spent a rather depressed childhood. He showed no interest in studying psychology until he read about psychoses as personality diseases in psychiatry textbook.
Jung also came to know that biological and spiritual factors are combined together in psychoses. That triggered his interest and inspired him to acquire a degree in medicine from University of Basel. This led him down some interesting pathes, writes Mark Vernon for The Guardian —like identifying two people within himself. He called them No. Later in his career, No. Kat Eschner is a freelance science and culture journalist based in Toronto.
Jung's interest in the subconscious was a driving force in his work. In , he resigned from the International Psychoanalytic Society and continued undaunted in the development of his ideas.
Seeking to further distinguish his work from Freud's, Jung adopted the term "analytical psychology" and delved deep into his work.
His most important development from this early period was his conception of introverts and extroverts and the notion that people can be categorized as one of the two, depending on the extent to which they exhibit certain functions of consciousness.
Jung's work in this area was featured in his publication Psychological Types. During this period he also allowed himself to explore his own mind, eventually proposing the idea that there was not only a personal unconscious but also a collective unconscious from which certain universal symbols and patterns have arisen throughout history. At the heart of analytical psychology is the interplay of these with the ego, a process he labeled individuation, by which a person develops into his or her own "true self.
For much of his later life, Jung traveled the globe to study different cultures. He published extensively on his findings, authoring some works on his theories, including Modern Man in Search of a Soul and The Undiscovered Self Jung's ideas continue to resonate today, in fields as varied as archaeology, religion, literature and even pop culture.
In Jung was awarded Zurich's literature prize. Six years later he was elected honorary fellow of England's Royal Society of Medicine.
In he was named an honorary member of the Swiss Academy of Medical Sciences. Jung married Emma Rauschenbach in The couple had five children and remained together until Emma's death in We strive for accuracy and fairness.
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