Five Fascinating Facts About Carl Jung
He thought he was two people (sort of) and more things you didn’t know about the pioneering psychologist
Jung's interest in the subconscious was a driving force in his work. (Wikimedia Commons)
By Kat Eschner
smithsonian.com
July 26, 2017
Carl Jung was born on this day in 1875 in Thurgau, Switzerland. Some years later, he became the world-renowned founder of analytical psychology, a branch of the discipline that focuses on a person’s inner life to help understand how they think and any problems they may be facing.
It should come as no surprise, then, that Jung himself was quite a complicated person. Learn more about his quests for knowledge and self with these five lesser-known facts:
Jung coined “introvert” and “extrovert”
The terms “introverted” and “extraverted” (Jung spelled the latter with an a, though the dominant spelling in the U.S. now uses an o) first appear in Psychological Types, a book which Jung published in German in 1921. “In his model, differences between the personalities basically boil down to energy,” writes Joseph Bennington-Castro for io9.
Introverts, as Jung wrote, get their energy from their own self-dialogue and defend themselves “against external claims” on their energy with shyness or other means. Extroverts, on the other hand, are “friendly and accessible characters” who are constantly looking outward for their energy.
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