o quell this secret unrest.
When it seems you are helpless in the face of problems, it should be remembered that this deeper mind carries the totality of human experience, a vast store of objective wisdom and perfect solutions. It only has to be recognized and accessed.
“Whether he understands them or not, man must remain conscious of the world of the archetypes, because in it he is still a part of Nature and is connected with his own roots. A view of the world or a social order that cuts him off from the primordial images of life not only is no culture at all but, in increasing degree, is a prison or a stable.”
Carl Gustav Jung was born in Kesswil, Switzerland in 1875, the son of a Protestant minister.
In 1895 he enrolled at the University of Basel to study medicine, and when his father died the following year had to borrow money to remain a student. He began to specialize in psychiatry, and from 1900 worked at the Burghölzli clinic in Zurich under the pioneering psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler. In 1903 he married Emma Rauschenbach, a wealthy Swiss heiress. Under Swiss law Jung had access to her fortune, and they built a large house in Kusnacht for their young family.
In 1905 Jung became lecturer in psychiatry at the University of Zurich, and in subsequent years developed a successful private practice. In 1912 he broke with Freud, and two years later resigned from the International Psychoanalytic Society. Freud had considered Jung his heir in psychoanalytical theory, so the split was a major event in the history of psychology. The split enabled Jung to branch out and explore concepts such as synchronicity, individuation and the theory of psychological types (see Isabel Briggs Myers).
Other books include The Psychology of the Unconscious (1911-12), Symbols of Transformation (1912),
Psychological Types (1921), Psychology and Religion (1937), Psychology and Alchemy(1944), and The Undiscovered Self (1957). The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious is actually Part I of the ninth volume of Jung's Collected Works.
After World War Two he was accused of having Nazi sympathies, but there was no conclusive evidence. He spent time with native peoples in American and Africa, and had a strong interest in ethnology and anthropology. Jung died in 1961 in Switzerland.
Source: 50 Psychology Classics: Your shortcut to the most important ideas on the mind, personality, and human nature by Tom Butler-Bowdon (London & Boston: Nicholas Brealey)