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Carl Jung

1875 - 1961

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Carl Gustav Jung ( YUUNG; Swiss Standard German: [karl jʊŋ]; 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and psychologist who founded the school of analytical psychology. A prolific author of over twenty books, illustrator, and correspondent, Jung was a complex and convoluted academic, best known for his concept of archetypes. Alongside contemporaries Sigmund Freud and Alfred Adler, Jung became one of the most influential psychologists of the early 20th century and has fostered not only scholarship, but also popular interest. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology, and religious studies. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Carl Jung is the 2nd most popular psychologist, the 4th most popular biography from Switzerland (up from 6th in 2019) and the most popular Swiss Psychologist.

Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist who is most famous for his theory of the collective unconscious.

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Carl Jung ranks 2 out of 235. Before him are Sigmund Freud. After him are Jean Piaget, Erich Fromm, Alfred Adler, Abraham Maslow, Wilhelm Wundt, Lev Vygotsky, Jacques Lacan, Viktor Frankl, Erik Erikson, and John Dewey.

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Among people born in 1875, Carl Jung ranks 1. After him are Thomas Mann, Maurice Ravel, Aleister Crowley, Vallabhbhai Patel, Syngman Rhee, Rainer Maria Rilke, Albert Schweitzer, D. W. Griffith, Ibn Saud, Ferdinand Porsche, and Jeanne Calment. Among people deceased in 1961, Carl Jung ranks 1. After him are Ernest Hemingway, Erwin Schrödinger, Zog I of Albania, Dag Hammarskjöld, Patrice Lumumba, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Emily Greene Balch, Lee de Forest, Jules Bordet, Gary Cooper, and Percy Williams Bridgman.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Carl Jung ranks 4 out of 1,015. Before him are Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712), Leonhard Euler (1707), and Le Corbusier (1887). After him are Paracelsus (1493), Henry Dunant (1828), Jean Piaget (1896), Ferdinand de Saussure (1857), Jacob Bernoulli (1654), Huldrych Zwingli (1484), Sepp Blatter (1936), and Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Switzerland

Among psychologists born in Switzerland, Carl Jung ranks 1. After him are Jean Piaget (1896), Hermann Rorschach (1884), Ludwig Binswanger (1881), Auguste Forel (1848), Édouard Claparède (1873), Edgar Schein (1928), Otto Binswanger (1852), and Théodore Flournoy (1854).

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