Jung

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🗓️ 2 December 2004

⏱️ 28 minutes

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Melvyn Bragg and guests discuss the extraordinary mind of the psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung. In 1907 Sigmund Freud met a young man and fell into a conversation that is reputed to have lasted for 13 hours. That man was the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung. Freud is celebrated as the great pioneer of the 20th century mind, but the idea that personality types can be 'introverted' or 'extroverted', that certain archetypal images and stories repeat themselves constantly across the collective history of mankind, and that personal individuation is the goal of life, all belong to Jung: "Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart... Who looks outside, dreams. Who looks inside, awakens", he declared. And he also said "Show me a sane man and I will cure him for you".Who was Jung? What is the essence and influence of his thought? And how did he become such a controversial and, for many, such a beguiling figure?With Brett Kahr, Senior Clinical Research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health at the Centre for Child Mental Health in London and a practising Freudian; Ronald Hayman, writer and biographer of Jung; Andrew Samuels, Professor of Analytical Psychology at the University of Essex and a Jungian analyst in clinical practice.

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0:00.0	Thanks for downloading the In Our Time podcast. For more details about In Our Time and for our terms of use, please go to BBC.co.uk.
0:09.0	I hope you enjoy the program.
0:11.0	Hello, in 1907, Sigmund Freud met a young man and fell into a conversation that's reputed
0:17.1	to have lasted for 13 hours.
0:19.6	The man was the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung.
0:22.8	Freud is celebrated as a great pioneer of the 20th century mind, but the idea that personality
0:27.5	types can be introverted or extroverted, that certain archetypal images and stories repeat themselves constantly along the collective history and memory of mankind,
0:36.2	and that personal individuation is the goal of life all belong to Jung.
0:40.4	Your vision will become clear only when you look into your heart, he wrote. Who looks outside dreams?
0:46.0	Who looks inside? Awakens, he declared.
0:49.0	And he also said, show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
0:52.0	Who was young? What was the essence and show me a sane man and I will cure him for you.
0:53.0	Who was young?
0:53.8	What was the essence and influence of his thought
0:56.0	and how did he become such a controversial and for many
0:58.6	such a big guiling figure?
1:00.1	With me to discuss Gal Gustav Young is Andrew Samuels, professor of analytical
1:04.8	psychology at the University of Essex and a young analyst in clinical practice, Ronald
1:09.8	Haman, writer and biography of Young, and Brett Carr, senior clinical research Fellow in Psychotherapy and Mental Health
1:15.8	at the Center for Child Mental Health in London and a practicing Freudian.
1:20.1	Brett Carr, it's difficult to talk about Young without bringing in Freud, who had a profound influence on him, on each other in a way.
1:27.0	How did they meet and when did they meet?
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