About the author …

C. G. Jung (1875-1961) was reared in a clergy family; an intensive linguistic education together with long periods spent alone impressed the early years. In spite of his abiding interest in archeology, he studied medicine at the University of Basel while developing a fascination with psychiatry. After a close association with Freud, at a time when Freud was in disfavor, he soon found Freud's medical model, which presupposed sexual trauma to be the source of all neurosis, too restrictive and indelicate. Jung is, of course, is the founder of analytical psychology and is justly noted for his personality theory, including the dimensions of extroversion and introversion, the collective unconscious, including archetypes and cultural universals, and the theory of synchronicity, the postulation of significant coincidence of events. The heart of his psychology is his description of the person's fulfillment of meaning in life through the process of individuation.