Carl Gustav Jung Timeline

Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), was one of the foremost Swiss psychiatrists. He formed analytic psychology. He was a pioneer in the field of individuation ('self-actualization') and dream analysis. The professor's work has influenced psychiatry and studies in many other fields since, including literature analysis.
  - Tormod Kinnes, psychoanalyst

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• Life of Carl Gustav Jung - A Timeline
• Carl G. Jung on Astrology

Carl Gustav Jung: A Timeline

Years	Happenings
1875	Jung is born in in Kesswill, Switzerland, son of a Reformed Protestant pastor, Johann Paul Jung, and Emilie Preiswerk.
1895	Jung enters Basel University to study science and medicine.
1896	Jung's father dies.
1900	Jung graduates with a M.D. from the University of Basel and is appointed assistant at the Burgholzli Psychiatric Hospital, Zurich, under Professor Eugen Bleuler.
1900-1909	Jung works at the Burghoelzli Mental Hospital in Zurich.
1902	Jung gets his Ph.D. at the University of Zurich with a doctoral dissertation 'On the Psychology and Pathology of So-Called Occult Phenomena'.
1903	Jung marries Emma Rauschenberg. The get five children in the course of time.
1905-1913	Jung lectures in psychiatry at the University of Zurich.
1906	Jung initiates letter correspondance with Sigmund Freud and visits him next year in Vienna.
1907	Jung's first meeting with Freud. He writes the work The Psychology of Dementia Praecox.
1909	Jung resigns from Burgholzli. He visits USA with Freud.
1909	Jung also opens his private practice of psychoanalysis in Kuessnacht - he runs it enthusiastically till he dies.
1910	Jung is elected President of International Psychoanalytic Association. He writes Symbols of Transformation. Lectures at Fordham University.
1912	Jung declares he is scientifically independent of Freud and publishes Neue Bahnen der Psychologie.
1913	Jung resigns as President. His final break with Freud.
1916	Jung publishes La structure de l'inconscient.
1917	Jung publishes Die Psychologie der unbewussten Prozesse.
1919	Jung's first use of the term archetype (in Instinct und Unbewusstes).
1921	Jung publishes Psychologische Typen (Psychological Types).
1923	Jung starts the building of his "tower" in Bollingen.
1923	Jung visits Pueblo Indians in North America.
1925	Jung's study trip to the Elgonyi of Mount Elgon in East Africa.
1929	Jung's Commentary on the Taoist text The Secret of the Golden Flower.
1931	Jung publishes Seelenprobleme der Gegenwart.
1932-1940	Jung works as a professor of psychology at the Federal Polytechnical University in Zurich.
1934	Jung publishes Wirklichkeit der Seele. He also begins series of seminars on Nietzsche's Zarathustra. President (until 1939) of International Society for Medical Psychotherapy.
1935	Jung's Tavistock Lectures, London, on "Analytical Psychology".
1937	Jung's Terry Lectures, Yale University, on "Psychology and Religion".
1937	Jung's study trip to India.
1941	Jung publishes Essays on a Science of Mythology with Karl Kerényi.
1944-1945	Jung becomes professor of medical psychology at the University of Basel, and his Psychology and Alchemy is published.
1945	Jung publishes Nach der Katastrofe.
1948	Founding of C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich.
1950	Jung publishes Aion - Fänomenologie des Selbsts.
1951	Jung's lecture "On Synchronicity".
1952	Jung publishes Antwort für Job (Answers to Job).
1955?	His Mysterium Coniunctionis.
1957	Jung publishes Gegenwart und Zukunft.
1961	Jung dies at his home in Kusnacht, near Zurich, at the age of 85, after a short illness.

Carl G. Jung on Astrology

There is really a curious coincidence between astrological and psychological facts, so that one can isolate time from the characteristics of an individual, and also, one can deduce characteristics from a certain time. Therefore we have to conclude that what we call psychological motives are in a way identical with star positions . . . We must form a peculiar hypothesis. This hypothesis says that the dynamics of our psyche is not just identical with the position of the stars . . . better to assume that i is a phenomenon of time - Carl G. Jung in 1929

Obviously astrology has much to offer psychology, but what the latter can offer its elder sister is less evident. So far as I judge, it would seem to me advantageous for astrology to take the existence of psychology into account, above all the psychology of the personality and of the unconscious. - Carl G. Jung

While studying astrology I have applied it to concrete cases many times. ... The experiment is most suggestive to a versatile mind, unreliable in the hands of the unimaginative, and dangerous in the hands of a fool, as those intuitive methods always are. . . . It is an apt tool only when used intelligently. - C. G. Jung: Letters, volume 2, 1951-1961, pages 463-464, letter to Robert L. Kroon, 15 November 1958

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