During Jung’s early childhood he did not always have the best of relationships with his parents. In addition to being a pastor at two churches during Jung’s childhood, Johann Jung was the pastor at Friedmatt, the insane asylum in Basel. Jung’s father, Johann Jung was a scholar of Oriental languages, studied Arabic, and was ordained a minister.
It can be helpful to view these concepts from an Eastern perspective, and it is interesting to note that “self-realization” was used in the name of the first Yoga society established in America (in 1920 by Paramahansa Yogananda). Thus, our true personality arises from within as our collective unconscious comes forth into our personal unconscious and then our consciousness. A Brief Biography of Carl JungĪt the beginning of his autobiography, entitled Memories, Dreams, Reflections, Jung (1961) described his life as “a story of the self-realization of the unconscious.” Jung believed that our personality begins with a collective unconscious, developed within our species throughout time, and that we have only limited ability to control the psychic process that is our own personality. Who was this man who inspired such profound confidence from Sigmund Freud, only to later inspire such contempt? And were his theories that difficult for the psychodynamic community, or psychology in general, to accept? Hopefully, this chapter will begin to answer those questions. Later Freud would turn against Jung, saying his ideas were unorthodox and incorrect. …I have already acknowledged…above all that your person has filled me with trust in the future, that I now know that I am dispensable like everyone else, and that I wish for no one other or better than you to continue and complete my work. In 1907, Freud wrote a letter to Jung in which Freud offered high praise: Perhaps no one was more upset than Freud, whose attitude toward Jung changed dramatically over just a few years. His blending of psychology and religion, as well as his openness to different religious and spiritual philosophies, was not easy to accept for many psychiatrists and psychologists trying to pursue a purely scientific explanation of personality and mental illness. Jung has always been controversial and confusing. In his most unique contribution, at least from a Western perspective, Jung proposed that the human psyche contains within itself psychological constructs developed throughout the evolution of the human species. Jung also introduced the concept of personality types, and began to address personality development throughout the lifespan. Subsequently, Jung developed his own theory, which applied concepts from natural laws (primarily in physics) to psychological functioning.
An early associate and follower of Freud, Jung eventually disagreed with Freud on too many aspects of personality theory to remain within a strictly Freudian perspective. Carl Jung brought an almost mystical approach to psychodynamic theory.
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