Carl Jung's Major Accomplishments

Born in Kesswil, Switzerland; Died in Kusnacht, Switzerland, these cities are only 88 kilometers apart so it seems this man didn’t travel very far but the contributions he made to the field of psychology and psychiatry have made sure that this man’s legend is known in every corner of the world, this man is Carl Jung.

Carl Jung was born in 1875, the only child of a protestant pastor, growing up as an only child it was a surprise to no one that the young Carl was quite lonely and spent much time retreated into himself, in consequence of this he had a very vivid information and also spent many hours observing his parents and teachers trying his best with his childish mind to solve the issues that plagued them. Jung’s father was a pastor who as

Eugene Bleuler at the Burgholzli Asylum, Dr. Bleuler was an early psychologist who laid the groundwork for the studies of mental illness. In his time at the asylum Jung would spend many hours observing the mentally ill patients, he saw how different words and phrases elicited emotional responses from patients. This led him to believe that these responses represented subconscious associations around sexual or immoral content, all of these observations led Carl to develop a term known as “complex” to describe these conditions. All the things Jung did during his time working on his graduate studies led him to be respected by his peers for his creativity even as he was known to be quite arrogant, more importantly in 1902 he finally completed his dissertation “On the Psychology and Pathology of So-Called Occult Phenomena”, and met a woman named Emma Rauschenbach who he would marry a year later. For the next few years Jung would toil away as the senior physician at the Burgholzli Asylum and lectured at his alma mater the University of Zurich, this all changed in 1905 when he sent copies of his word association studies to Sigmund Freud who was already one of the most well known psychologists on the planet, Freud found merit in Jung’s ideas and the two corresponded back and forth for a couple of years before finally meeting in 1907, they immediately hit it off and the older Freud believed he had found a worthy