The Life and Work of C.G. Jung Reconsidered Essay -- C.G. Jung Biograp

The Life and Work of C.G. Jung ReconsideredIn my airplane pilot paper on Carl Gustav Jung, I took a rather skeptical fool of the doctor and his cash in ones chips, for several reasons that I will reiterate. However, after studying however into his work, I realized that these objections all related to his previous(predicate) psychiatric cases, and I found myself to be far more intrigued and impressed by his posterior work and theories. While I had stated in my first setting of Jung that, there is a frustratingly limited, almost biased quality to much of his work, I was pleasantly surprised later on to find that more of his later theories and assumptions were anything but limited. I still believe that in his advance(prenominal) case work he took tremendous risks, both clinically and professionally, even so it is that risk-taking aspect of his personality that ultimately allowed, or rather, propelled him to boldly go away with some of his most groundbreaking and controversia l contributions to the fields of psychology, and philosophy as well. It can even be said, and has been, that Dr. Jung is the father of modern new-age thinking. He in like manner laid the groundwork for those who were inspired by his thoughts, perhaps much in the way that he himself was skipperly inspired by Freud. Once again, speckle my original opinion of Dr. Jung caused me to wonder how much of Jungs work was rightfully visionary, and how much of it benefits from a positive hindsight bias because of the successes he was able to strike in his early casework, I must translate that my current opinion, early casework aside, is that Jung was in fact truly visionary, and was the originator of some of the most ultra conceptual thinking that the human experience has to offer.I will buzz off by giving a short background on Dr. Jungs life, revisiting some of my objections to his early case work, and then move on to the ideas and concepts that caused me to regard his work as a whole . Carl Gustav Jung was born on July 26th, 1875 in Kesswil, Switzerland, the only son of Johannes Paul Achilles Jung, a Swiss Reformed Church evangelistic minister. He was a strange, melancholic child with no brothers or sisters until he was nine years old. The family was steeped in religion, as he had eight uncles in the clergy as well as his maternal grandfather, Samuel Preiswerk, a respected minister of religion in Basel.In school Jung gravitated... ...s experience from the practical to the privateThese theoretical concepts developed by Dr. Jung are what caused the hypothesis and negativity of my original consideration of him to be replaced by a deep respect and, in fact, an almost gleeful fascination with his work. I am discovering that quite a few people find that Jung has a great deal to say to them. This tends to include writers, artists, musicians, film makers, theologians, clergy of all denominations, students of mythology, and of course, and many psychologistsIn conclusi on, my opinion on Carl Gustav Jung has come full circle. In a sense, the very qualities about him that I found troubling initially are the same qualities that allowed him to be stomach enough to defy and question, at first, Freud, and later perhaps the entire psychiatric establishment base, and come up with theories and concepts that are still being built upon. There are elements of his work in the Humanistic approach, Existentialism, and obviously the unhomogeneous Jungians, and neo-Jungians that continue to explore the meaning he was able to give to what previously held little meaning. Dr. Jungs work was visionary, to say the least, visionary indeed.