Forever Jung: 2008 marks the 60th anniversary of Kusnacht's C.G. Jung Institute Zurich. Swiss News takes an up close and personal look at a father of psychology who was also a seminal thinker, philosopher and visionary.

Swiss News › Nbr. 2008, April 2008

Author: Mangold-Vine, Gail

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Forever Jung: 2008 marks the 60th anniversary of Kusnacht's C.G. Jung Institute Zurich. Swiss News takes an up close and personal look at a father of psychology who was also a seminal thinker, philosopher and visionary.

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Carl Gustav lung was born on July 26, 1875 on the shores of Lake Constance in the village of Kesswil in Canton Thurgau.

When he was six months old, Jung's impecunious but scholarly father, Reverend Johannes Paul Achilles Jung, was transferred to Laufen, in Basel, and then relocated again to a parish in the city of Basel in 1879.

Jung's mother Emilie was depressive and frequently hospitalised. Her absences and mood swings left him with a deep mistrust of women that he could never shake. Jung remained an only child until age nine, when a sister, Gertrud, came along.

An introvert--a term with which he is credited (alo...

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