Jung, Karl Gustav (1875-1961)

Swiss physician and psychiatrist

As a follower of Freud, he romped with him in 1912, for considering his theories excessively materialists.

He distinguished two types of character: the introverted and the extroverted.

He also developed the theory of the collective unconscious, through which man incorporates in the society by mean of a set of archetypes or fundamental symbols.

Ø Psychological types

Ø Psychology and religion

Ø Psychology of the unconscious

Ø Problems of the modern soul

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Paula M. Oct 29, 2010, 1:03pm UTC

Jung had many friends and respected colleagues who were Jewish and he maintained relations with them through the 1930s when anti-semitism in Germany and other European nations was on the rise. However, until 1939, he also maintained professional relations with psychotherapists in Germany who had declared their support for the Nazi régime and there were allegations that he himself was a Nazi sympathizer.

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Paula M. Oct 29, 2010, 1:04pm UTC

There are writings showing that Jung's sympathies were against, rather than for, Nazism.

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Paula M. Oct 29, 2010, 1:05pm UTC

Jung and professional organizations in Germany, 1933 to 1939

In 1933, after the Nazis gained power in Germany, Jung took part in restructuring of the General Medical Society for Psychotherapy (Allgemeine Ärztliche Gesellschaft für Psychotherapie), a German-based professional body with an international membership.

Paula M. Oct 29, 2010, 1:06pm UTC

In the face of energetic German attempts to Nazify the international body, Jung resigned from its presidency in 1939, the year the Second World War started.

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Jung, Karl Gustav (1875-1961)

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