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CaSfVAD MMC1.1
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Title: Collection on C.G. Jung
Dates: 1909-1992 inclusive, 1920-1990 bulk
Collection Number: CaSfVAD MMC1.1
Creator/Collector:
Carl Gustav Jung
C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco
Extent: 3 linear feet (3 document boxes, 1 portfolio, 1 album)
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Repository:
C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco
San Francisco, California 94109
Abstract: This collection contains materials related to the life and work of Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychologist who founded the
field of analytical psychology. Materials include correspondence, photographs, articles, obituaries, clippings, speeches,
magazines, and pamphlets created and/or published between 1909 and1992. The bulk of the materials date from the 1920s to the
early 1990s.
Language of Material: English
Access is available by appointment and advance notice is required. Contact the C.G. Jung Institute to get more information
or to set-up an appointment.
Publication rights vary within this collection. Copyright in the letters to C.G. Jung from others which are in the possession
of the C.G. Jung Institute archive may be held either by the C.G. Jung Institute archive (if gifted to us) or by the correspondent
or his/her heirs. Consequently, the letters may be made available for reading and note-taking upon signing of the Archive
user Registration form, unless the correspondent has expressly restricted such access in writing. They must not, however,
be copied, quoted, published, or reprinted without the written permission of the correspondent, or the correspondent’s heirs,
or the C.G. Jung Institute archive.
Letters by C.G. Jung to others are held in copyright by the heirs of Jung. They may be made available for reading and note-taking
upon the signing of the Archive User Registration form. Unpublished letters by Jung must not, however, be copied, quoted,
published or reprinted without the written permission of the Jung heirs.
For more specific information, please consult the container lists.
Collection on C.G. Jung. C.G. Jung Institute of San Francisco
This collection was compiled by the C.G. Jung Institute from materials donated by Institute members and friends from 1971
to 2001. Little is known about how or when the materials came to the Institute, but some donor information is included with
the descriptions of individual items.
Biography/Administrative History
Carl Gustav Jung was born on July 26, 1875 in Kesswil, Switzerland to parents Paul and Emilie. He attended the University
of Basel from 1895 to 1900 and received his M.D. from the University of Zurich in 1902. He married Emma Rauschenbach in 1903
and together they raised five children. He joined the staff at Burgholzli Asylum shortly after completing his M.D. and began
to develop the idea of “complexes” to explain patients’ emotionally-charged responses to certain stimulus words. It was during
this time that he also began to study Freud’s work and became a close colleague of the elder psychologist. This collaboration
and friendship lasted five years (1907-1912), but eventually ended because of temperamental differences but also fundamental
differences in theory and viewpoint.
Free to distinguish himself from Freud, Jung developed some of his best known work during the period between 1914 and 1940.
In 1921 he published Psychological Types in which he discussed his concept of introversion and extroversion as a way to classify
people who exhibit either outward-looking or inward-looking characteristics. He also developed the idea of the “collective
unconscious” and proposed that certain universal symbols which appear across cultures and throughout history are drawn from
this collective reservoir of the psyche and expressed through symbolic means such as dance, art, dreams, etc.
During the 1930s-1950s Jung traveled widely and studied cultures across the globe. His travels informed many of his publications,
including Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933) and The Undiscovered Self (1957), in addition to many others. During this
time he also taught psychology at the Federal Polytechnical University in Zurich (1933-1941) and medical psychology at the
University of Basel (1943). He continued to write and see patients well into his seventies. Over the span of his life, Jung
contributed many key theories and ideas which continue to inform psychoanalytic theory and practice today including complex,
archetype, shadow, individuation, and personality typology, to name just a few. Jung died in his home in Zurich on June 6,
1961.
Scope and Content of Collection
This collection contains materials related to the life and work of Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychologist who founded the
field of analytical psychology. This collection documents Jung’s personal and professional life, his wide network of friends
and colleagues, and his lifelong scholarly interests and pursuits. Materials include correspondence, photographs, articles,
obituaries, clippings, speeches, magazines, and pamphlets created and/or published between 1909 and 1992. The bulk of the
materials date from the 1920s to the early 1990s.
In addition to the main collection, the Archive also maintains a C.G. Jung Reference Collection (Box 5). The Reference Collection
contains general materials related to Jung’s life and work, compiled by the Archive. Materials are added regularly.
Jung, C.G. (Carl Gustav), 1875-1961
Jung, Emma
Wolff, Toni
Goodrich, Chauncey Shafter, 1920-
Kroeber, A.L. (Alfred Louis), 1876-1960
Harding, M. Esther (Mary Esther), 1888-1971
Freud, Sigmund, 1856-1939
Kusnacht (Switzerland)