Jung
Biography
Born in Switzerland in 1875 to a family of modest means (his father was a minister in a small rural community), Jung has become one of the most significant thinkers of our time. His pioneering work deeply affected many aspects of our contemporary culture, including medicine, religion, philosophy, and psychoanalysis. It was through his work that many of the terms that we now consider to be generally accepted were introduced into culture, such as archetype, introvert and extrovert, collective unconscious, anima and animus, persona, synchronicity, shadow, etc.
Jung was a contemporary of Theodor Flourny and William James, and during the heyday of psychoanalysis was a close colleague of Sigmund Freud. In 1910 he became the first president of the International Psychoanalytic Association. However, in 1914 he abandoned Freud's theory and founded his own approach to psychoanalysis and psychology.
Jung's exploration of the human psyche included many areas, including mythology, alchemy, fairy tales, modern physics, the Yijing, and Eastern religions.
Jung's understanding of dream interpretation, the structure of the psyche, the unconscious, and personality dynamics continues to attract scientific research and influence collective thought today.
My life is a story of self-realization of the unconscious! Everything that is in the unconscious strives for realization, and human a person, feeling himself a single whole, wants to develop from his unconscious sources.
Tracing this for myself, I can't use the language of science because I don't see myself as a scientific problem.
What we appear to our inner eye, and what is man sub specie aeternitatis (from the point of view of eternity - lat.), can be expressed only through myth. The myth is more individual and reflects life more accurate than science. She works with ideas too general to correspond to the subjective set of events of one single life.
Now, at eighty-three, I am attempting objectively consider my life. In this way I create a personal myth. All I can to do is to assert something, "to tell stories." Am I telling the truth orno, it doesn't matter. What matters is that this is my story, my truth.