Word: jung
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Romantic Wallowing. "Sigi" Jung (nicknamed from the Schwyzerdütsch pronunciation of his initials), only son of a Reformed Church pastor, had a lonely, bookish boyhood in Basel. His father began teaching him Latin at six. In adolescence he wallowed in the German romantics. He read Greek and Sanskrit and steeped himself in philosophy. He thought of becoming an archaeologist. To please his father he took up medicine-and began digging into the minds of patients...
Teaching and practicing in Zurich, young Dr. Jung was fired by Freud's descriptions of psychoanalysis. In 1907 he made a pilgrimage to Vienna and was confirmed in the Freudian faith. In the tall Teuton, Freud saw his heir apparent...
...Jung persisted in his own digging. He began to unearth "archetypes"-patterns of experience and feeling that have reappeared down the ages in dream symbols, as collective myths, or in the arts. Among the most significant: the "old wise man" and the "earth mother...
Break with Freud. Jung classified basic personality types as extraverts or introverts, then added a breakdown by function: "With perception, you know something is there. Thinking tells you what it is. Feeling tells you what it is worth to you or to others. And intuition tells what the damn thing comes from or goes to." Finally, in the persistence of religious movements throughout history, Jung saw an archetypal need for a religious attitude. A religion did not need to be formalized, he insisted; but to be emotionally healthy, a man must have made his peace with the unseen and perhaps...
...silent, standing tribute to "this great man who has now gone from us," 2,800 doctors attending the Third World Congress of Psychiatry in Montreal last week paid honor to Carl Gustav Jung. Among them were doctors from 60 nations -most interestingly, ten psychiatrists from Russia. Soviet psychiatry thus for the first time got into substantial personal contact with Western psychiatry, and so eager were the Russians to meet their Western colleagues that-having been refused travel funds by their employer, the government-they scraped up the fare out of their own pockets...