C.G. Jung
Carl Gustav Jung was born in Kesswil, Switzerland, on July 26, 1875. The child of a long line of ministers on both his father's and mother's side, Jung at a young age sensed the growing tension between formal religious practice and belief and what he later called "living symbols." He studied medicine in Basel, writing his dissertation on the relationship between so-called occult phenomena and psychological states. In 1902 he began work as a psychiatrist at the Burghozli mental hospital in Zurich, where he continued to practice until 1909. After publishing a landmark book the psychology of dementia praecox (a disorder that is now considered schizophrenia), Jung began a correspondence in 1906 with Freud that led to spirited exchanges and a close relationship between the two for several years. By 1912, Jung's own clinical experience brought him to differ with Freud, who held that sexual trauma was the basis for all neurosis, and they parted ways professionally. In 1935, Jung became a Professor at ETH (Eidgenossische Technische Hochschule) in Zurich, and in 1944 he was appointed Professor of Medical Psychology at the University of Basel.

Jung married Emma Rauschenbach in 1903, and together they had five children. He lived and practiced in Kusnacht on the lake of Zurich, where he died on June 6, 1961.

In researching his theories regarding the archetypal dimension of cultures, religions, myths, and traditional tales, Jung traveled during the 1920s to Algiers and Tunis, stayed with the Pueblo Indians of New Mexico, and went on safari in Kenya, returning via Egypt. Later in his life, Jung immersed himself in the study of alchemical texts, which he saw as symbolically descriptive of the processes he was coming to discern within the psyche. The images and experiences from these travels and studies remained touchstones for him throughout his life and in the development of his psychological theories.

Jung's major contributions to psychology include the recognition of both the personal and archetypal (or collective) dimensions of the unconscious, symbols of which appear in dreams, myths, rituals and traditional tales worldwide; the concept of typology, which introduced the notions of psychological introversion and extroversion as well as the cognitive functions of thinking, feeling, intuition and feeling; the existence of multiple complexes within the psyche, which accounts for both normal functioning as well as symptoms seen in dissociative disorders; the existence of Synchronicity, in which internal and external events are related by their subjective meaning; and the centrality of the process of individuation, by which a person's psyche moves toward self
regulation and wholeness, becoming more fully who one uniquely has the capacity to be
and the anima, animus and shadow as aspects of the psyche. Jung wrote extensively, and his writings were compiled in the Collected Works of C. G. Jung, published between 1953 and 1979.

The C. G. Jung Institute - Zurich was founded in 1948. Jungian Institutes, like the Philadelphia Jung Institute, exist around the world, most numerous in Europe and the United States. Jungian analysts continue to write on the subjects of interest to Analytical Psychology such as art, literature, religion, psychology, popular culture and clinical applications of Jung's thought to contemporary issues.