Memories, Dreams, Reflections is a partially autobiographical book by Swiss psychologist Carl Jung and an associate, Aniela Jaffé. His work has been influential not only in psychiatry but also in anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, and religious studies. JungĬarl Gustav Jung (26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. His influence on popular psychology, the 'psychologization of religion', spirituality and the New Age movement has been immense.Įrinnerungen, Träume, Gedanken = Memories, Dreams, Reflections, C.G. Jung's interest in philosophy and the occult led many to view him as a mystic, although his ambition was to be seen as a man of science. Though he was a practising clinician and considered himself to be a scientist, much of his life's work was spent exploring tangential areas such as Eastern and Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology, and sociology, as well as literature and the arts. The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI), a popular psychometric instrument, has been developed from Jung's theory of psychological types.

Jung created some of the best known psychological concepts, including the archetype, the collective unconscious, the complex, and synchronicity.

Jung considered individuation to be the central process of human development. The central concept of analytical psychology is individuation-the psychological process of integrating the opposites, including the conscious with the unconscious, while still maintaining their relative autonomy. He was a prolific writer, many of whose works were not published until after his death. His work has been influential in psychiatry and in the study of religion, philosophy, archeology, anthropology, literature, and related fields. Jung proposed and developed the concepts of extraversion and introversion archetypes, and the collective unconscious. Jung, was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. Carl Gustav Jung (/jʊŋ/ German: ), often referred to as C.

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