Carl jung books archive

Who was C. G. Jung? Jung was born in Kesswil, on Lake Constance, in 1875.

His family moved to Laufen by the Rhine Falls when he was six months old. He was the oldest child and had one sister. His father was a pastor in the Swiss Reformed Church. Toward the end of his life, Jung wrote a memoir entitled "From the Earliest Experiences of My Life," which was subsequently included in Memories, Dreams, Rifl'ections in a heavily edited form.6 Jung narrated the significant events that led to his psychological vocation.

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The memoir, with its focus on significant childhood dreams, visions, and fantasies, can be viewed as an introduction to Liber Novus. In the first dream, he found himself in a meadow with a stone-lined hole in the ground. Finding some stairs, he descended into it, and found himself in a chamber.

Here there was a golden throne with what appeared to be a tree trunk of skin and fl