Carl Gustav JungCarl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was born on July 26 in the small village of Kesswil on Lake Constance. He was named after his grandfather, a professor of medicine at the University of Basel. He was the eldest son and only surviving son of a Swiss Reformed pastor. Carl attended the University of Basel and decided to pursue psychiatry after reading a book that caught his interest. Jung became an assistant at the Burgholzli Psychiatric Hospital, a famous medical hospital in Zurich. He studied and was influenced by Eugen Bleuler, a famous psychiatrist who defined schizophrenia. Jung was also influenced by Freud, with whom he later became good friends. Their relationship ended when Jung wrote a book called "Symbols of Transformation." Jung disagreed with Freud's fundamental idea that a symbol is a disguised representation of a repressed desire (Heaney, 1994). After the break with Freud, Jung had a 2-year period of non-productivity, but then came out with his "Psychological Types", a famous work. He made several trips to learn about primitive societies and archetypes. His explorations included travel to Africa, New Mexico to study the Pueblo Indians, and to India and Ceylon to study Eastern philosophy. He studied religious and occult beliefs such as the I Ching, a Chinese method of fortune-telling. Alchemy became one of his interests during his travels. His book "Psychology and Alchemy", published in 1944, is among his most important writings. In this study, he talked about the human mind. One of his methods was word association. This is when a person is given a series of words and asked to respond to them. An abnormal response or hesitation may mean that the person has a complex about that word. His basic belief was in complex or analytical psychology. The goal is psychosynthesis, or the unification and differentiation of the psyche (mind). He believed that the mind was born as a whole and should remain so. This answered structural, dynamic and developmental questions. Jung is best known for his theory of the "three levels of the mind" (Aurelio, 1995). Discussion The three levels of theory of mind include the ego (conscious), the personal unconscious, and the collective unconscious. The conscious level performs four functions. It is the part of the personality that carries out normal daily activities: thinking, feeling, perceiving, and... middle of paper... a destruction of the personality (Heaney, 1994). I decided to do my research on Carl Jung because he isn't talked about much in textbooks. I find his theory of the conscious and the unconscious very interesting. I definitely believe in the thoughts of the person and the ego. When one's ego is knocked down, a person may tend to develop a complex about it. I also agree that people tend to have a different personality based on where they are and how they are expected to behave around certain people. Works Cited: Aurelio, Jeanne M. (1995). Use Jungian archetypes to explore deeper levels of organizational culture. Journal of Management Inquiry, 4, 347-369.Heaney, Liam F. (1994). Freud, Jung and Joyce: conscious connections. Contemporary Review, 265, 28-32.Yurkevich, Gayana. (1991). Unamuno's intrahistoria and Jung's collective unconscious: parallels, convergences and commonalities. Comparative Literature, 43, 43-60. Kremer, Jurgen W. (1999). Facing the collective shadow. Review, 22, 2-5. Mannis, Robert F. (1997). Jung and his shadow. Utne Reader, 84, 91-94.Neher, Andrew. (1996). Jung's theory of archetypes: a critique. Journal of Humanistic Psychology, 36, 61-92.