JUNG BIOGRAPHY

1875 C. G. Jung is born on the 26 of July, in Kesswil, Switzerland. His parentes were Reverend Johann Paul Achilles Jung a protestant Pastor and Emilie Preiswerk, daughter of a Pastor from Basel
1879 The family moves to Basel
1884 Sister Gertrud is born
1886 Jung begins his studies of baccalaureate in Basel
1895 He begins Medicine studies at Basel University and joins the Zofingia Society
1896 Death of Jung’s father with whom he maintained a difficult relation
1898 He attends sessions of spiritism with cousin Helene Preiswerk acting as medium
1900 He decides to specialize in psychiatry. At the end of this year is appointed as attending doctor at the Burgölzli Clinic, Zurich, under the direction of Dr. Eugen Bleuler
1901 He begins to be interested in spiritism
1902 He attends the courses of Pierre Janet in the Salpetriere (Paris)
1903 Marriage of Jung to Emma Rauschenbach. Five children were born to the couple. This same year begins the interest of Jung in the work of Freud
1904 Jung takes Sabina Spielrein from Russia as his patient. By the end of this year his daughter Agatha was born
1905 Jung graduates as a Psychiatrist and is appointed at the Burgölzli Clinic. He starts teaching Zurich University.
1906 His second daughter, Anna, was born. He writes his first letter to Freud, a correspondence that will last seven years.
1907 First encounter with Freud in Vienna. Shortly after, Freud designates Jung as his successor and his most capable collaborator within his close group of psychoanalysts. Their correspondence becomes more constant.
1908 First International Congress of Psychoanalysis in Salzburgo, in which Jung makes a presentation and a defense of freudian theory. His son Franz is born.
1909 Jung leaves Burgölzli Clinic to live in Küsnacht, where he starts private practice. At the end of the year he travels with Freud to Clark University in the United States.
1910 Jung is elected as Permanent President during the Second International Congress of Psychoanalysis held in Nuremberg. Birth of his third daughter, Marianne.

 

1912 As a result of the publication of Jung’s work Transformations and Symbols of the Libido, communications with Freud begin to cool off. Later, during a conference at the University of Fordham, New York, he establishes his differences with Freud in relation to psychoanalysis.
1913 The definitive rupture of Jung with Freud takes place, affecting them extremely. Jung retires from teaching at the University of Zurich, and uses the term "Analytical Psychology" for the first time.
1914 Jung resigns to the presidency of the International Congress of Psychoanalysis. The group of Zurich separates from the International Psychoanalytic Association. World War I begins.
1916 The Psychological Club of Zurich is founded. In his writings, Jung uses for the first time the concepts "individuation", "personal unconscious " and "collective unconscious".
1919 Jung uses the concept of "archetype" for the first time.
1920 He travels to Algeria and Tunisia.
1921 He publishes his book Psychological Types.
1923Death of Jung´s mother. He begins to build a house in Bollingen.
1924 He travels to visit the Pueblo Indians in New Mexico, United States.
1925 He travels to London. Later to Kenya, Africa, where he visits the settlers of Monte Egon.
1928 He publishes Relations between Ego and the Unconscious.
1929 He begins to work with Marie-Louise von Franz, who collaborates in his studies on Alchemy.
1930 Jung is elected Vice-president of the General Medical Society of Psychotherapy.
1932 He receives the Zurich Literary Prize.
1933 Meetings of "Eranos" in Ascona, Switzerland, at the house of Olga Froebe-Kaptein.
1934 He is named first president of the General Medical International Society of Psychotherapy.
1935 Attends the "Tavistock Conferences" in London.
1936 Receives the Honoris Cause from Harvard University.
1937 Travels to the United States for the "Terry Conferences" on Psychology and Religion, and then to India.
1938 Oxford University grants him an Honoris Cause degree
1939 World War II begins.
1944 He suffers a heart attack that forces him to leave educational tasks.
1945 Receives the Honoris Cause from Geneva University.
1948 The C. G. Jung Institute of Zurich is founded.

 

1952 He writes on sincronicity.
1953 Beginning of publication of his Complete Work in the Bollingen Series, New York.
1955 Jung writes with W. Pauli, Nobel Prize, on Sincronicity. Emma Jung Dies.
1958 Publication of Dreams, Memories and Thoughts, in collaboration with Aniela Jaffe.
1961 Jung dies on June 6th at his house of Küsnacht