In what ways did Jung’s life experiences influence his analytical psychology?
Carl Jung was once declared as the successor of Freud; however, their friendship soon disintegrated, and Carl Jung developed his own theory of analytical psychology. Jung was brought up in the northern Switzerland. He described his childhood as lonely, unhappy and isolated. His father was a cleric and had evidently lost his belief; hence, was always moody and annoying.
His father would often become very angry and this impacted Carl and his mother very badly. Because of the unbefitting behavior of his father, his mother suffered from emotional disorders. Just in a while, she would turn from a cheerful housewife to an unintelligible, mumbling demon. Later, Jung learned not to believe his parents and the other people in the world.
As a result, he isolated himself from the real world and began digging in the world of fantasies and illusions, that is, his world of unconscious. He totally depended upon his dreams in order to perform any tasks. When he had to choose his subjects for college studies, he said that he had a dream of unearthing the bones of the dead animals.
Hence, he must study science and nature. Later Jung was appointed a s professor of psychiatry in Zurich university. Jung, unlike Freud never asked his patients to lie, instead he would make his patients comfortable; sometimes he would become rude purposely. Later Jung became familiar with Freud’s work.
However, he was not able to stand his dominance because of pat experiences with the father-like figure. Later he became the president of the Psychoanalytic association. At the age of 38 he became emotionally distressed and was unable to carry on the intellectual work. He resolved these disorders by facing his own unconscious thoughts.