Carl Jung
July 26, 1875: Born in Kesswil, Switzerland to Johann Paul Jung, a reformed Protestant Pastor, and Emilie Preiswerk. Jung was the first surviving child of his parents, who had suffered through two stillbirths and one infant death prior to his birth. He had one younger sister, Johanna “Trudi” Gertrud who was born in 1884.
1878: Moves to Laufen, Switzerland with his family. His mother’s mental and physical health declines after the move and she is hospitalized for several months.
1879: Moves to Kleinhüningen, Switzerland near Basel, where his mother’s family lived, with his parents after his father is appointed to a new parish.
April 18, 1895: Starts school at the University of Basel and studies medicine because of his interest in philosophy that he had developed as a teenager.
1896: His father dies and leaves the family in debt.
1900: Graduates from the University of Basel with a MD and is appointed as an assistant to Eugen Bleuler at the Burghölzli, a psychiatric hospital in Zürich.
1902: Gets his PhD from the University of Zürich with his dissertation “On the Psychology and Pathology of So-Called Occult Phenomena” (published in 1903).
February 14, 1903: Marries Emma Rauschenbach. The couple were married for 52 years until her death in 1955, and had five children (Agathe, Gret, Franz, Karl, Marianne, and Helene) together.
Carl Jung outside of the Burghölzli in 1909.
Carl and Emma Jung with their children in 1917.
1904: Begins treating Sabina Spielrein at the Burghölzli.
1906: Begins written correspondence with Sigmund Freud.
March 3, 1907: First meeting with Freud in Vienna, and the beginning of their close friendship and collaboration.
1909: Resigns from his job at the Burghölzli and travels to the US with Freud. Both men receive honorary doctorate degrees from Clark University in Worcester, MA.
1912: Publishes Psychology of the Unconscious in which he disputes some of Freud’s most famous theories, in particular those about the sexual basis of neuroses.
1914: Resigns from his position as president of the International Psychoanalytic Society of which he had been elected in 1911. Many view this as his final break with Freud. Jung’s mental health suffered as a result of the split.
1921: Publishes Psychological Types which introduced the concept of introverts and extroverts, and named other personality types such as, sensing versus intuition and thinking versus feeling. According to Jung, these traits inform how we interact with the world. This work laid the foundation for the famous Meyers-Briggs personality test.
1932 - 1940: Works as a professor of psychology at the Federal Polytechnical University in Zürich.
1943: Becomes a professor of medical psychology at the University of Basel, but resigns due to a heart attack.
April 24, 1948: Founds the C.G. Jung Institute, a training center for analysts, in Zürich, Switzerland.
June 6, 1961: Dies at his home in Kusnacht, Switzerland at the age of 85.
