Carl Gustav Jung

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wouldn't make a good living because of his
spells. After Carl found out about his father's concern, the faints
suddenly stopped, and Carl became much more studious.

He had to decide his profession. His choices included archeology,
history, medicine, and philosophy. He decided to go into medicine, partly
because of his grandfather. Carl went to the University of Basel and had
to decide then what field of medicine he was going to go into. After
reading a book on psychiatry, he decided that this was the field for him,
although psychiatry was not a respectable field at the time. Jung became
an assistant at the Burgholzli Mental hospital in Zurich, a famous medical
hospital. He studied under Eugen Bleuler, who was a famous psychiatrist
who defined schizophrenia. Jung was also influenced by Freud with whom he
later became good friends. Freud called him his crown-prince. Their
relationship ended when Jung wrote a book called "Symbols of
Transformation." Jung disagreed with ...

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will make the understanding a bit more clear.

STRUCTURE ---------

Jung said that there are three levels of mind. Conscious, Personal
Subconscious, and Collective Subconscious. The conscious level serves four
functions. The following are the functions of people (not types!):

A. Thinking: connecting ideas in ordered strings. B. Feeling: evaluating
ideas upon feelings about them. C. Sensing: wanting to get experiences. D.
Intuiting: following unfounded ideas.

A & B are called rational, and C & D are called irrational. If they
don't make much sense, they will be explained in more detail after
explaining Types.

There are also 2 classes of conscious behavior:

A. Introverted, ...

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