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C.G. Jung    1875 -1961


". . .the development of consciousness is the burden, the suffering, and the blessing of humankind."  C.G. Jung, 1955


"A dream that is not understood remains a mere occurrence; understood it becomes a living experience." C.G. Jung CW11: 497 


"The goal of the individuation process is the synthesis of the self."   C.G. Jung  CW 9i: 278


"In every adult there lurks a child--an eternal child, something that is always becoming, is never completed, and calls for unceasing care, attention, and education.  That is the part of the personality which wants to develop and become whole."  -C. G. Jung  CW17: 286


Swiss Alps,  Photo by Bryan Gaier




C.G. Jung

Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung [YOONG], developed the field of analytical psychology, a form of depth psychology.  Jung was an early supporter of Sigmund Freud; however, he went on to develop his own ideas about the structure and nature of the psyche.

Jung’s contributions to psychology include:

  • experimentally proving the existence of complexes;
  • introduction of personality typology, which is widely used today; coining the terms, introvert and extravert;
  • discovery of a deeper layer of the psyche, which he called the collective unconscious, and which contains archetypes;
  • the theory of individuation, a process of personality development, which spans one’s whole lifetime.


Jung’s mandala Window on Eternity was drawn in 1927 from his own dream image. He said, “I saw that . . .one could not go beyond the center.  The center is the goal, and everything is directed toward that center. Through this dream I understood that the self is the . . . archetype of orientation and meaning.  Therein lies its healing function.”    C.G. Jung, Word and Image, 91-92