Running head: Theory of Analytical Psychology

Research Paper
PSYC 341 Carl Jung’s Theory of Analytical Psychology

Psychology of Personality
By
A. M. Barnett

January 17, 2006

Abstract
Carl Gustav Jung was bone July 26, 1875 (Feist and Feist, 2002). He was blessed to be surrounded by an educated family, including clergymen. Carl Jung as a young man was a colleague of Freud. His life’s work was exploring the unconscious. Freud’s theory of the unconscious made the unconscious sound unpleasant. It involved crazy desires, incestuous cravings, and frightening experiences that would come back to haunt a person. Based on Freud’s theory, one would understandably be terrified of making the unconscious conscious. Jung, …show more content…

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