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In 1915, C. G. Jung and his psychiatrist colleague, Hans Schmid-Guisan, began a correspondence through which they hoped to codify fundamental individual differences of attention and consciousness. Their ambitious dialogue, focused on the opposition of extraversion and introversion, demonstrated the difficulty of reaching a shared awareness of differences even as it introduced concepts that would eventually enable Jung to create his landmark 1921 statement of the theory of psychological types. That theory, the basis of the widely used Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and similar personality assessment tools, continues to inform not only personality psychology but also such diverse fields as marriage and career counseling and human resource management.
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Carl G. Jung, geb. am 26. Juli 1875 in Kesswil in der Schweiz, studierte Medizin und arbeitete von 1900-09 an der psychiatrischen Klinik der Universität Zürich (Burghölzli). 1905-13 war er Dozent an der Universität Zürich, 1933-42 Titularprofessor an der ETH und 1943 Ordentlicher Professor für Psychologie in Basel. Jung gehört mit Sigmund Freud und Alfred Adler zu den drei Wegbereitern der modernen Tiefenpsychologie. Er entwickelte nach der Trennung von Sigmund Freud (1913) die eigene Schule der Analytischen Psychologie. C. G. Jung starb am 6. Juni 1961 in Küsnacht.
Ernst Falzeder ist Lektor an der Universität Innsbruck und wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter der Philemon Foundation zur Herausgabe einer Gesamtedition der Werke C. G. Jungs. Ca. 200 Publikationen zur Theorie, Technik und Geschichte der Psychoanalyse. Er ist Hauptherausgeber der Freud-Ferenczi-Korrespondenz und Herausgeber des »Jahrbuchs der Psychoanalyse«.
Ernst Falzeder ist Lektor an der Universität Innsbruck und wissenschaftlicher Mitarbeiter der Philemon Foundation zur Herausgabe einer Gesamtedition der Werke C. G. Jungs. Ca. 200 Publikationen zur Theorie, Technik und Geschichte der Psychoanalyse. Er ist Hauptherausgeber der Freud-Ferenczi-Korrespondenz und Herausgeber des »Jahrbuchs der Psychoanalyse«.
Summary
The first English translation of correspondence tracing the development of Jung's theory of psychological types
In 1915, C. G. Jung and his psychiatrist colleague, Hans Schmid-Guisan, began a correspondence through which they hoped to codify fundamental individual differences of attention and consciousness. Their ambitious dialogue, focused on the opposition of extraversion and introversion, demonstrated the difficulty of reaching a shared awareness of differences even as it introduced concepts that would eventually enable Jung to create his landmark 1921 statement of the theory of psychological types. That theory, the basis of the widely used Myers-Briggs Type Indicator and similar personality assessment tools, continues to inform not only personality psychology but also such diverse fields as marriage and career counseling and human resource management.
This correspondence reveals Jung fielding keen theoretical challenges from one of his most sensitive and perceptive colleagues, and provides a useful historical grounding for all those who work with, or are interested in, Jungian psychology and psychological typology.
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"The letters themselves have been brilliantly edited with very helpful annotations that provide for the reader some greater insight into the detailed arguments and allusions contained in this correspondence."---Peter Kenney, Journal of Analytical Psychology
