# Carl Gustav Jung

- Id: `jung`
- Canonical url: `https://prokopton42.com/en/thinkers/jung/`
- Language: `en`
- Editorial status: `available`
- Content checksum: `12761408808bc81c06a2ef6c80450204690d32d0cb4a3c2084395646ac5dd61a`

## Summary

A Swiss psychiatrist and founder of analytical psychology, Jung examines symbols, dreams, individuation, and the tensions of psychic life.

## Overview

Jung died on 6 June 1961.

## Lifespan

```json
{
    "display": "1875–1961",
    "era": "Early twentieth century",
    "distance": "65–151 years ago",
    "age_at_death": 86
}
```

## Intellectual tradition

```json
{
    "id": "psychology",
    "name": "Psychology and psychoanalysis",
    "detail": "Analytical psychology",
    "labels": [
        "Psychology and psychoanalysis",
        "Analytical psychology"
    ]
}
```

## Historical cutoff

```json
{
    "year": 1961,
    "display": "1961 CE",
    "reason": "Jung died on 6 June 1961."
}
```

## Statistics

```json
{
    "works": 4,
    "passages": 1556,
    "languages": [
        "de",
        "en",
        "fr"
    ],
    "intellectual_exposures": 2,
    "typed_relationships": 0
}
```

## Places

```json
[
    {
        "name": "Kesswil",
        "period": "1875",
        "description": "Birthplace.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://library.ethz.ch/en/locations-and-media/platforms/virtual-exhibitions/c-g-jung.html"
    },
    {
        "name": "Basel",
        "period": "education",
        "description": "Childhood and medical studies.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://library.ethz.ch/en/locations-and-media/platforms/virtual-exhibitions/c-g-jung.html"
    },
    {
        "name": "Zürich",
        "period": "1900 onward",
        "description": "Burghölzli career and analytical psychology.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://library.ethz.ch/en/locations-and-media/platforms/virtual-exhibitions/c-g-jung.html"
    },
    {
        "name": "Worcester, Massachusetts",
        "period": "1909",
        "description": "Clark University lectures with Freud.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://library.ethz.ch/en/locations-and-media/platforms/virtual-exhibitions/c-g-jung.html"
    },
    {
        "name": "East Africa",
        "period": "1925-1926",
        "description": "Psychological expedition through Kenya and Uganda.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://library.ethz.ch/en/locations-and-media/platforms/virtual-exhibitions/c-g-jung.html"
    },
    {
        "name": "India",
        "period": "1937-1938",
        "description": "Extended intellectual journey in India.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://library.ethz.ch/en/locations-and-media/platforms/virtual-exhibitions/c-g-jung.html"
    },
    {
        "name": "Bollingen",
        "period": "from 1923",
        "description": "Tower, retreat and place of sustained creative work.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://library.ethz.ch/en/locations-and-media/platforms/virtual-exhibitions/c-g-jung.html"
    },
    {
        "name": "Küsnacht",
        "period": "1909-1961",
        "description": "Home, practice and documented place of death.",
        "confidence": "A",
        "source_url": "https://library.ethz.ch/en/locations-and-media/platforms/virtual-exhibitions/c-g-jung.html"
    },
    {
        "name": "Taos, New Mexico",
        "period": "1925",
        "description": "The American Southwest journey included encounters around Taos; the record must be read with its colonial mediation in view.",
        "confidence": "B",
        "source_url": "https://www.loc.gov/exhibits/red-book-of-carl-jung/the-red-book-and-beyond.html"
    }
]
```