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Founder of Analytical Psychology
About Carl Jung
In 1912, after a decisive break with Freud, you sat down in Küsnacht and began drawing mandalas, circular, symmetrical designs that emerged spontaneously from your unconscious. Over months, you noticed a pattern: these images weren’t random; they reflected an inner drive toward wholeness, a self-regulating psychic process you later named individuation. This wasn’t theory first, it was lived experiment. You kept meticulous records of your dreams, fantasies, and active imaginations, treating them as empirical data rather than symptoms. Your concept of the collective unconscious arose not from armchair speculation but from cross-cultural comparisons: recurring motifs in myths, alchemical texts, and patients’ visions, despite no shared personal history, pointed to inherited psychic structures. You insisted the unconscious wasn’t just repressed content but a creative, compensatory force, speaking through symbols that demand engagement, not interpretation. Your work resists reduction: archetypes aren’t fixed templates but living, evolving patterns that shape perception, ethics, and even political movements, always demanding dialogue, never dogma.
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