Carl Jung
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Carl Gustav Jung (July 26, 1875 – June 6, 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and writer. He created many theories and ideas that are still used in psychology today. Psychology is the science of how people think and feel. His kind of psychology was called analytical psychology or Jungian Analysis.
Jung worked for years with Sigmund Freud, but they stopped working together. This was because they had some arguments about what was more important in psychology.
Jung is famous for many things that he did for psychology. The work he did was important for measuring what kind of personality people have. The test called the Myers-Briggs Personality Inventory is based on his ideas. He is also famous because of his ideas about the ancients - people from many years ago.
Jung liked to study strange books and sciences. He thought he could learn important things about psychology from them. For example, he liked to study alchemy. Alchemy was an old science that tried to create gold. This is very hard to do. Sometimes alchemy was less science and more magic. Jung did not believe that alchemy was a good science. He was interested in how alchemy was like normal human life.
He wrote in academic German, for doctors and psychologists. This means he can be hard to understand. Most people who study Jung start with his book Man and His Symbols. Jung wrote this book so that most people could understand him.
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- He is one of the famous people who appears on the cover of The Beatles' Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band album.
