Carl
Jung was a well known psychiatrist, who founded analytical psychology.
He
related a person's mental and emotional disturbances with his/her
personal and
spiritual wholeness.
He
was born in 1875 in Switzerland. His father was a clergyman. His
childhood was
lonely and thus he developed a habit of dreaming and fantasizing. He
studied in
Germany with elite class of students, although he was poor. One day,
his
companions at school knocked him down in the street. His head hit a
stone and
he fainted. Whenever he attended school, he became prone of fainting.
This behavior
continued until his father understood the seriousness of the problem
and
arranged for his medical aid.
When
Carl became a grown-up person,
he realized the inconvenience caused to everyone due to him. He
repented for it
and become inspired to know what neurosis is and how human behavior is
related
with psychology.
In
1902, he became graduate in
medicine and joined Psychiatric Hospital at Zurich. There he practiced
the
method of free association with his mental patients that lent him an
insight
into the repressed complexes of the person. These studies brought him
fame and
there was no looking back at the troubled past. Jung wrote a book,
'Psychology
of the Unconscious' on the basis of his own observation.
Later
on Jung started practicing at
his home village on the shore of the Lake of Zurich and received
patients from
all over the world. He wrote about thirty books on the unconscious
mind. He
also analyzed dreams and interpreted the working of the unconscious
mind.
Dreams symbolized ignored or rejected aspects of our own personality,
as well
as some hidden truth. He also observed that dreams tried to convey some
important messages to their people. So people must learn to interpret
their
dreams. When Jung was in his 86th year of his life, he dreamt of a
second home,
bathed in radiant light. Then he heard a voice telling him that it was
now
finished and the time had come for him to get ready.
At
the same time he saw a mother wolf teaching her pup to swim. Jung woke
up and
interpreted that it was a clear message to prepare him for death. Carl
Jung
threw light on unconscious mind and meanings of dreams. He died in
1961,
leaving behind rich explorations of mind and books.