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...Jung never shrank from death, but with his powerful constitution and ever-young, inquiring mind, he held it long at bay. Last week, in the willow-shaded seclusion of his home at Küsnacht, on Lake Zurich, the long-poised arrow flew to its target. Death came peacefully, just short of his 86th birthday, to Carl Gustav Jung -the last survivor of psychology's Big Three and of the great feuds that raged among them...
Sigmund Freud saw the prime mover of the unconscious as sexual energy or libido; Alfred Adler made it the drive for power to overcome inferiority feelings. In his "analytical psychology," Jung divided the unconscious into two layers. Within one, relatively superficial, he gave libido and the power drive less ambitious roles. In the second and far deeper stratum, he perceived the force of the primeval, collective unconscious of the human race...
...Jung, the systems constructed by his rivals were narrow-gauge, "nothing-but" explanations of human behavior and aspirations, which reduced man's most numinous visions to sordid sex symbols and shrank his soul to the vanishing point. Jung posed bolder concepts-reaching for the ultimate limits of the universe and of man's relationship to his God or gods...
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...