Educated in medicine at the University of Basel, Jung graduated in 1900 and married in 1903. His wife, Emma Rauschenbach, came from one of the wealthiest families in Switzerland. Jung became interested in psychiatry and worked at a psychiatric clinic in Zurich. In 1906, he published Studies in Word Association which brought him to the attention of Sigmund Freud, with whom he developed a close friendship. Together with Freud, Adler and others, he helped to establish the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society and later was named president for life of the International Psychoanalytic Society. In 1913, he published The Psychology of the Unconscious, which differed from Freudian concepts and caused a break in their friendship and collaboration. Following the First World War,Jung traveled extensively in Africa, America, India and other areas lecturing on psychoanalysis and Eastern philosophy. His interest in Indian religion greatly affected his later work which became more spiritual and mystical. During the rise of Nazism in Germany in the 1930's, Jung was often accused of being a Nazi sympathizer, serving as the president of the International General Medical Society for psychotherapy, a Nazi-dominated organization. However, he did his utmost to help Jewish doctors in the Society and later assisted the OSS in analyzing Nazi leaders. Among Jung's many publications are The Psychology of Dementia Praecox (1907), The Theory of Psychoanalysis (1915), Instinct and the Unconscious (1919), Psychological Types (1921), Psychology and Alchemy (1944), Answer to Job (1952) and Mysterium Conjunctionis (1956). |
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