Carl Gustav Jung (* July 26th, 1875 in Kesswil, canton Thurgau), most often simply C. G. Jung, is a Psychiatrist from Switzerland and the founder of analytical Psychology. Adherents of his school are called Jungians.
Originally, he had studied Medicine, Laws, and Philosophy. He's interested in the Occult, Parapsychology, and Seances. Since 1900, he's been working in the Psychiatrische Universitätsklinik Zürich.
In February 1903, Jung married the well-off Schaffhauser Emma Rauschenbach (* 1882).
In 1905, Jung got his habilitation with the results of his researches about Diagnostische Assoziationsstudien: Beiträge zur experimentellen Psychopathologie.
In 1907, he met Sigmund Freud for the first time, with whom he talked for many hours. 1910 to 1914, he was President of the Internationale Psychoanalytische Vereinigung. But towards the End of 1912, the Break with Freud happened.
As the President of the Internationale Allgemeine Ärztliche Gesellschaft für Psychotherapie, he tried to defend Psychotherapy in Nazi Germany, where it was considered "too Jewish". However, this made him suspicious because some people thought he was compromising himself with the Nazis.
In 1939, Jung's Works in Nazi Germany were put onto the «black List».
In 1918, he already wrote a warning about the «Germanic Barbarians», whose Soul contained, besides a civilised Side, a split-off «blond Beast», which might «in ihrem unterirdischen Gefängnis umdrehen und uns mit einem Ausbruch mit verheerenden Folgen bedrohen» (turn around in its subterranean prison and threaten us with a break-out, with devastating consequences) and might e. g. «[als] soziales Phänomen auftreten» (appear as social phenomenon).
Also in 1918, Jung wrote in «Über das Unbewußte» (About the Unconscious) that the timespan, in which Mankind acquired a highly developed culture as the «Kulturmensch» (culture human), only equaled to a thin Patina in the Soul, «in relationship to the strongly developed primitive (e. g. archaic) Strata of the Soul. But these Strata form the collective Unconscious, together with the Relics of animalhood (that is: the Instincts), which point back into infinite, fog-like depths.»
Jung displayed his deep psychological understanding of the events of the time in National Socialist Germany in his essay «Wotan» (1936).
In January 1939, the so-called Knickerbocker-Interview by Jung appeared in the New Yorker International Cosmopolitan under the Title of «Diagnose der Diktatoren», in which Jung tried to explain Adolf Nazi and National Socialism of the Germans from a psychological Perspective. This Interview was and is perceived by Critics as an apology or Legitimisation.
Among his Patients are/were Wolfgang Pauli, Hermann Hesse, and Sabina Spielrein. Although he stays controversial, he has lots of influence, especially on diverse artists.
