Carl Jung was born on July 26, 1875, in Kesswil, Switzerland. He died June 6, 1961, in Küsnacht, Switzerland at the age of 85. His father was a philologist, a person who studies language, and a pastor. He and his father could not really understand each other as they had opposing views on religion. He was pretty lonely as a child, but he had an amazing imagination and observed the behavior of adults around him. As a boy, Jung also had remarkably striking dreams and powerful fantasies that had developed with unusual intensity. There were many clergymen in Jung’s family, so it seemed like he would turn out to be one as well. While in his teenage years, Jung discovered philosophy and read extensively, this led him to study medicine and psychiatry. He studied at the universities of Basel, from 1895 to 1900,  and Zurich for his M.D., in 1902. He joined the staff at the Burgholzli Asylum at the University of Zurich when it was under the direction of Eugen Blueler, who conducted what we consider today some classical experiments on mental illness. From 1907 to 1912, about 5 years, Jung worked as Freud’s closest collaborator. Sadly, they ended their professional and personal relationship due to differences of opinion and were never able to mend it. Jung was elected president of the International Psychoanalytic Society in 1911 and resigned in 1914. Carl was also a very active member of the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society. In later years he became a professor of psychology at the Federal Polytechnical University in Zürich and professor of medical psychology at the University of Basel. You might have heard that Carl Jung is a Nazi supporter. Well, the truth is, Jung, delivered many speeches where he stated his belief that Germany held a special position in Europe, so he got mislabeled.