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Personality Preferences
Margarita Rodriguez
Millers College of Nursing

Carl Jung
Carl Jung whom was born in Kesswil, Switzerland on July 26, 1875 became a famous psychiatrist that founded the school of analytical psychology. Analyzing his introverted and extroverted personality helped him developed the two personality concepts including archetypes and collective unconsciousness. While analyzing the different personalities he began to study integration and wholeness characteristics. His work is well-recognized in psychology, religion, and literature (Cowgil, 1997). Carl Jung was an assistant physician at Burgholzli Psychiaric clinic and eventually received his MD from the University of Zurich. He wrote a thesis titled ?On the Psychology and Pathology of So-Called Occult Phenomena? (Cowgil, 1997). During this work, word association in patients became a concern where he later created the word ?complex?(Cowgil, 1997). All of his work and study ended up relating him to Sigmund Freud between 1907 and 1912. Their differences about sexuality in human life ended up breaking their relationship especially when Jung wrote a book called ?Psychology and the Unconscious? which contradicted Freud?s ideas (Cowgil, 1997). ?Symbols and Transformations of the Libido? was published in 1912, he wanted to find the meaning of the word unconscious (Cowgil, 1997). Jung wanted to distinguish personal psychology and

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