PSYCHOLOGIST

Carl Jung

1875 - 1961

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Carl Gustav Jung ( YUUNG; German: [kaʁl ˈjʊŋ]; 26 July 1875 – 6 June 1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist, psychologist and pioneering evolutionary theorist who founded the school of analytical psychology. He was a prolific author, illustrator, and correspondent, and a complex and controversial character, perhaps best known through his "autobiography" Memories, Dreams, Reflections. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology, religious studies and evolutionary theory. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Jung has received more than 14,566,001 page views. His biography is available in 107 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 102 in 2019). Carl Jung is the 2nd most popular psychologist, the 6th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 5th in 2019) and the most popular Swiss Psychologist.

Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist who is most famous for his theory of the collective unconscious.

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  • 107

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 9.86

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.96

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Carl Jung ranks 2 out of 235. Before him are Sigmund Freud. After him are Jean Piaget, Alfred Adler, Abraham Maslow, Erich Fromm, Lev Vygotsky, Wilhelm Wundt, Jacques Lacan, John Dewey, Viktor Frankl, and William James.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Carl Jung ranks 2. Before him is Thomas Mann. After him are Rainer Maria Rilke, Maurice Ravel, Albert Schweitzer, Ibn Saud, Ferdinand Porsche, Mileva Marić, Syngman Rhee, Gerd von Rundstedt, Jeanne Calment, and Albert I of Belgium. Among people deceased in 1961, Carl Jung ranks 2. Before him is Ernest Hemingway. After him are Erwin Schrödinger, Patrice Lumumba, Dag Hammarskjöld, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Emily Greene Balch, Gary Cooper, Percy Williams Bridgman, Jules Bordet, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, and Mohammed V of Morocco.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Carl Jung ranks 6 out of 1,015. Before him are Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712), Leonhard Euler (1707), Le Corbusier (1887), Paracelsus (1493), and Henry Dunant (1828). After him are Jean Piaget (1896), Ferdinand de Saussure (1857), Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746), Sepp Blatter (1936), Huldrych Zwingli (1484), and Jean-Paul Marat (1743).

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS In Switzerland

Among psychologists born in Switzerland, Carl Jung ranks 1. After him are Jean Piaget (1896), Hermann Rorschach (1884), Ludwig Binswanger (1881), Auguste Forel (1848), Édouard Claparède (1873), Edgar Schein (1928), Otto Binswanger (1852), and Théodore Flournoy (1854).

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