Carl Gustav Jung

Carl Gustav Jung (1875–1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. The Undiscovered Self considers how an individual can preserve psychological responsibility under the pressure of mass society and ideology. Analytical Psychology provides a broader route through the unconscious, archetypes, persona, shadow, and individuation. The Theory of Psychoanalysis records Jung’s early effort to distinguish his developing views from established psychoanalytic doctrine, while Psychology of the Unconscious shows that transition in a more extended study of symbols and psychic transformation. The Undiscovered Self is a concise first encounter with Jung’s public argument. Readers seeking the conceptual system can turn to Analytical Psychology. Psychology of the Unconscious is better approached afterward, when the historical development of his ideas can be read beside the later framework.