Years |
Happenings |
1875 |
Jung is born in in Kesswill, Switzerland, son of a Reformed Protestant pastor, Johann
Paul Jung, and Emilie Preiswerk. |
1895 |
Jung enters Basel University to study science and medicine. |
1896 |
Jung's father dies. |
1900 |
Jung graduates with a M.D. from the University of Basel and is appointed assistant at
the Burgholzli Psychiatric Hospital, Zurich, under Professor Eugen Bleuler. |
1900- 1909 |
Jung works at the Burghoelzli Mental Hospital in Zurich. |
1902 |
Jung gets his Ph.D. at the University of Zurich with a doctoral dissertation 'On the
Psychology and Pathology of So-Called Occult Phenomena'. |
1903 |
Jung marries Emma Rauschenberg. The get five children in the course of time. |
1905- 1913 |
Jung lectures in psychiatry at the University of Zurich. |
1906 |
Jung initiates letter correspondance with Sigmund Freud and visits him next year in
Vienna. |
1907 |
Jung's first meeting with Freud. He writes the work The Psychology of Dementia Praecox
. |
1909 |
Jung resigns from Burgholzli. He visits USA with Freud. |
1909 |
Jung also opens his private practice of psychoanalysis in Kuessnacht - he runs it
enthusiastically till he dies. |
1910 |
Jung is elected President of International Psychoanalytic Association. He writes
Symbols of Transformation. Lectures at Fordham University. |
1912 |
Jung declares he is scientifically independent of Freud and publishes
Neue Bahnen der Psychologie. |
1913 |
Jung resigns as President. His final break with Freud. |
1916 |
Jung publishes La structure de l'inconscient. |
1917 |
Jung publishes Die Psychologie der unbewussten Prozesse. |
1919 |
Jung's first use of the term archetype (in Instinct und Unbewusstes). |
1921 |
Jung publishes Psychologische Typen (Psychological Types). |
1923 |
Jung starts the building of his "tower" in Bollingen. |
1923 |
Jung visits Pueblo Indians in North America. |
1925 |
Jung's study trip to the Elgonyi of Mount Elgon in East Africa. |
1929 |
Jung's Commentary on the Taoist text The Secret of the Golden Flower. |
1931 |
Jung publishes Seelenprobleme der Gegenwart. |
1932- 1940 |
Jung works as a professor of psychology at the Federal Polytechnical University in
Zurich. |
1934 |
Jung publishes Wirklichkeit der Seele. He also begins series of seminars on
Nietzsche's Zarathustra. President (until 1939) of International Society for Medical Psychotherapy. |
1935 |
Jung's Tavistock Lectures, London, on "Analytical Psychology". |
1937 |
Jung's Terry Lectures, Yale University, on "Psychology and Religion". |
1937 |
Jung's study trip to India. |
1941 |
Jung publishes Essays on a Science of Mythology with Karl Kerényi. |
1944- 1945 |
Jung becomes professor of medical psychology at the University of Basel, and his
Psychology and Alchemy is published. |
1945 |
Jung publishes Nach der Katastrofe. |
1948 |
Founding of C.G. Jung Institute, Zurich. |
1950 |
Jung publishes Aion - Fänomenologie des Selbsts. |
1951 |
Jung's lecture "On Synchronicity". |
1952 |
Jung publishes Antwort für Job (Answers to Job). |
1955 ? |
His Mysterium Coniunctionis. |
1957 |
Jung publishes Gegenwart und Zukunft. |
1961 |
Jung dies at his home in Kusnacht, near Zurich, at the age of 85, after a short illness.
|