“There is no light without shadow and no psychic wholeness without imperfection.  To round itself out, life calls not for perfection but for completeness; and for this the “thorn in the flesh” is needed, the suffering of defects without which there is no progress and no ascent.”

Carl Gustav Jung was born on July 26, 1875, in Kesswil, Switzerland.  He studied medicine in Basel, and worked as a psychiatrist at the Burghölzli mental hospital in Zurich from 1900 to 1909.  He married Emma Rauschenbach in 1903; they had five children.  Jung supported Freud’s psychoanalytical theories until theoretical differences led to a parting of ways in 1912.  Jung went on to found Analytical Psychology, lecturing in Europe and the United States, publishing papers and books, and continuing his private practice as an analyst.  He was a professor at the Confederate Technical College of Zurich from 1935 until 1942; and a Professor of Medical Psychology at the University of Basel in 1944.  In 1948, the C. G. Jung Foundation was established in Zurich.  C. G. Jung died on June 6, 1961.  His memoir, Memories, Dreams, Reflections, was first published in English in 1962.  A partial list of Jung’s voluminous writings follows the article, “Jung’s Contribution to Modern Life.”