Carl Jung (World Philosophers and Their Works)
Early Life
Carl Gustav Jung was descended from a long line of physicians and theologians. His father, Johann Paul Achilles Jung, was a pastor of the Swiss Reformed Church, as were eight of his uncles. His mother, Emilie Preiswerk, suffered from a nervous disorder that often made her remote and uncommunicative; his father was reportedly irritable and argumentative. Because his parents were of little comfort or support to him as a child, and because his sister, Johanna Gertrud, was born nine years after he was, Jung spent much of his childhood alone. Jung’s adolescence was a...
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