Man and His Symbols
This book contains illustrations throughout the book and is the first
and only works in which the famous Swiss psychologist explains in simple
terms his influential theory of symbolism revealed during dreaming. |
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July 26, 1875 – June 6, 1961
Carl was born to Paul and Emily and was the only surviving child of
four. His father was a pastor at a Swiss Reformed Church. Not long after
Carl was born his mother started to suffer from depression and soon
needed to be hospitalized.
Carl was known to be a very introverted child often spending time by
himself and even resorted to carving out figurines he could communicate
with in secret. As a child he was convinced that he had two
personalities, one of these personalities was your typical schoolboy
while the second personality was authoritative and influential, a man
from the past.
In 1903 Karl married Emma Rauschenbach she was from one of the richest
families in Switzerland.
In 1906 he published a book titled, Studies in Word Association, he soon
sent a copy to Sigmund Freud in which a
special friendship developed lasting six years. The friendship ended
upon the publication of a book known as The Psychology of the
Unconscious. The book contained information that Freud disagreed with
and neither could admit they could each possibly have been wrong.
Carl had five children and Emma died in 1955.
During his work on himself and his patients he soon became convinced
that life had a spiritual purpose that was beyond material objects. He
believed the main purpose was to fulfill our deepest potential and he
gave a description as such, The acorn contains the potential to become a
mighty oak tree.
Carl studied Christianity, Hinduism, Buddhism, Gnosticism, Taoism and
other religions and came to a conclusion that your spiritual experience
was the essential to your well being.
He died in 1961 after a short illness.
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