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...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...
Died. Carl Gustav Jung, 85, last of the founding trinity of modern psychiatry: in Zurich (see MEDICINE...
...placed where he belongs, with the first wave of what might be called the Counter-Industrial Revolution. His obsession with myths, magic and symbols was a poet's way of fighting the machine. In a poet's intuitive fashion, he was plumbing the "collective unconscious" before Jung labeled it, celebrating the irrational before Freud discovered its starring role. Far from having the gift of self-analysis, Yeats possessed instead a talent for endless self-dramatization. There are extended comments in the essays on Shakespeare, Shelley, Blake, William Morris and Balzac, but one quickly discovers that these are pseudonyms...