View on Nazism

Me during my Rant on Nazis

Many people have asked me of my views on Nazism. Nazism, Nazism… I kept my professional relations with both Jews and Germans, even through the anti-Semitism. I was not very decided if I was to support or to be against Nazism itself. I do understand what they are thinking—but even if I do understand, that does not mean I wholly believe in what they are doing. “... the Aryan bird of prey with his insatiable lust to lord it in every land, even those that concern him not at all.” I used those very words to describe Hitler as I saw him—power-hungry for more land, more superiority, more strength. Many of my works describe my dislike of Nazism, and my opposition to it. In one of my books, I did indeed describe Germany as “infected”, as if with a germ of a man (Hitler). I also helped to analyze the Nazi leaders—in order to support the war against them. Many people believed that I was a Nazi supporter, but most of my works revealed my dislike of them and I do not understand why anyone would think that. My direct quote that I said about the rumors regarding my “sympathies” toward Nazism was:

It must be clear to anyone who has read any of my books that I have never been a Nazi sympathizer and I never have been anti-Semitic, and no amount of misquotation, mistranslation, or rearrangement of what I have written can alter the record of my true point of view. Nearly every one of these passages has been tampered with, either by malice or by ignorance. Furthermore, my friendly relations with a large group of Jewish colleagues and patients over a period of many years in itself disproves the charge of anti-Semitism.

Obviously, I am not a supporter of Nazism. Using my analytical powers of deciphering the human mind, I must say that Nazis are silly, sad-minded, misguided people.

Here is a link to my video on Youtube, if you would like to see me in action!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLJsiQ4h3fY

Friendship with Freud

The book I sent to Sigmund Freud triggered our relationship and we met the year after I sent my book to him. He was intriguing! His theories were interesting and when we first met, we talked for thirteen hours without stopping. Although there was a twenty-year age difference between us, that did not stop us from collaborating intensely and supporting each other when necessary. We were huge influences on each other during the years when we were still talking to each other and even after we stopped talking, there still remained traces of our influences on each other. We traveled with each other often and enjoyed each other’s companies. However, the tension grew between us as we started to disagree and argue more and more over our differing concepts of the unconscious. Although my old friend viewed the unconscious as only a place for repressed memories and desires, I thought differently—I believed in something spiritual that was entangled in the idea of the unconscious. His ideas were unnecessarily negative and moody. However, that disagreement was the separating point of our relationship and caused us to ignore each other and have a bad relationship after the beneficial relationship we had been sharing before the argument. I miss my old friend greatly, but he just won’t admit that he is wrong! I wish he would open his mind up more. Maybe his idea of the unconscious is from his own observations of himself—he is obviously repressing himself from admitting that I am right.

Sigmund Freud on the left; Carl Jung on the right

My Work with Psychology and Political Views

My intense, analytical stare

I love my work. I admit it. Although psychology was not my original goal, after I discovered it, it has pervaded through most of my life. It intrigues me and never fails to interest me. I started a new school on psychotherapy - analytical psychology. some of my concepts were: introversion/extraversion, complexes, the collective unconscious/archetypes, and synchronicity. My attempt at curing the American Rowland Hazard the III of his alcoholism had me nearly giving up, even after working with him extensively. I concluded that his only hope to escape alcoholism was to have a spiritual experience. He took my advice seriously and went off to America and joined a Christian organization. He spread this advice to his colleaguse and soon, my words became fact in the group "Alcoholics Anonymous." I also believe art is a good tool to be used as a type of therapy. It is helpful in recovering from trauma, and even drawing helps. I was rather well known and famous in the world of psychology. It was constantly advancing, and I along with it! I appeared on television once and had many contacts. I also published many books in my lifetime, discussing my experiences, views, and research. Politically, I believed that the individual rights for all people were important to maintain the "individual self." Without them, the state enslaves the public, and the state takes the place of God and makes people worship it. Freedom and morality are obviously suppressed and there is no individualism if people's rights are taken away. For the health of both the state and society, individualism is important.

Here is a video of my work:

 

My Wife and Books

In 1903, I married Emma Rauschenbach, my lovely wife. She was from a wealthy family in Switzerland, and we had five  beautiful children together. She died in 1955 (and it really wasn’t from being married to me!), but I continued to publish books for as long as I could. I even wrote and published a book about UFOs, unidentified Flying Objects, which have been rumored to be “aliens”.

I also analyzed, in the book, the meaning and possible psychological significance of the reported “observations” of UFOs. From my analysis of myself and my patients: I know that life has a spiritual purpose, despite our body’s wants, and it goes beyond all materialistic goals. We are to discover and fulfill our innate potential. I studied many religions and this is at the center of all religions! The aim is to meet yourself and the “Divine”. This is where I differed from my old-friend-turned-enemy, Sigmund Freud.

I know spiritual experience was essential to the well-being of the body. How can this be wrong? There is religion to prove it—many people have relied on religion through the years! That infuriating man Freud! He should just admit that I am right and we should rebuild our old friendship. But I digress. Recently, I’ve started to have short dizzy spells and I’ve also noticed my eyesight is getting worse. Perhaps I am to finally meet my “true self” and the “Divine.” Then, that will prove that old Freud wrong! I really do wonder who does have the most popular opinion, though.

My beautiful wife, Emma. RIP.

Photo courtesy of jungcurrents.com

Early Life

Photo of Yours Truly: Carl Jung

Photo courtesy of Google Images

I was born in Switzerland in Kesswil, the fourth child (although I was the only one to survive) of my parents, Paul Achilles Jung and Emilie Preiswerk. My grandfather was my professor of Hebrew and my father was a pastor in the Swiss Reformed Church, while my mother was from a wealthy family. When I was six months old, my father was appointed to a better job, but the arguments between my parents got worse. I thought my father was a better person because he was more predictable and my mother I didn’t like so much because she was troublesome. At night, my mother changed. She became strange and unpredictable and always said spirits visited her at night! One time, I even saw a strange, glowing figure leave her room in the middle of the night! But when my mother left to the hospital for some injury, I went to live with my aunt. Because of my mother, I was heavily influenced to believe that women were not to be trusted. I had two personalities when I was younger. One was of a typical schoolboy, and the other was an influential man from the past. I remember many things from my childhood that have continued to influence me to this day.

One time, I carved a tiny little mannequin into the end of a wooden ruler and always revisited it with my own memories written on slips of paper in my own language! I was incredible, even as a child. The things I did were similar to some rituals in Australia, and sparked some of my research when I grew up. One time, at school, I was pushed by this other boy (we were just having a puny argument!) so hard that I was knocked unconscious for a second—after that experience, I would always faint whenever I thought of school or academics. It was rather peculiar, and I only recovered once I accidentally overheard my father discussing my “illness” worriedly. It got me thinking, and I realized how important it was that I be brilliant in my academics—my family did not have much money to support me if I did not succeed on my own. After overhearing my father, I went to his study and studied Latin grammar as hard as I could, although I fainted three times, I was brave enough to overcome it!

I hadn’t really planned to study psychiatry, because it was still regarded with contempt back then, but I realized how interesting it was. I was, in part, influenced by my father because of his profession—I knew I wanted to study something both biological and spiritual! I sparked a friendship with Sigmund Freud after sending him a copy of my book, “Studies in Word Associations.” After publishing my next book in 1912, “Psychology of the Unconscious,” we had an argument about our beliefs in the psychological field and broke our friendship. What a depressing thought as it revisits me… People tell me that after I refused to admit that I might be wrong and that he refused to admit that he might be wrong, I fell into a period of depression and “hysteria”, Freud’s term for it. I don’t really remember it all, it is rather hazy and blurry to me, sort of like one would see a dream.