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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 and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology. He was a prolific author, illustrator, and correspondent, and a complex and controversial character, presumably best known through his "autobiography" Memories, Dreams, Reflections. Jung's work has been influential in the fields of psychiatry, anthropology, archaeology, literature, philosophy, psychology, and religious studies. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Carl Jung has received more than 13,579,576 page views. His biography is available in 102 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 99 in 2019). Carl Jung is the 2nd most popular psychologist, the 5th most popular biography from Switzerland (down from 4th 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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    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 102

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 11.32

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.39

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among PSYCHOLOGISTS

Among psychologists, Carl Jung ranks 2 out of 183. Before him are Sigmund Freud. After him are Jean Piaget, Abraham Maslow, Alfred Adler, Wilhelm Wundt, Lev Vygotsky, Erich Fromm, John Dewey, Jacques Lacan, William James, and Erik Erikson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1875, Carl Jung ranks 1. After him are Thomas Mann, Maurice Ravel, Rainer Maria Rilke, Albert Schweitzer, Ferdinand Porsche, Jeanne Calment, Gerd von Rundstedt, Ibn Saud, Syngman Rhee, Mileva Marić, and Aleister Crowley. Among people deceased in 1961, Carl Jung ranks 2. Before him is Ernest Hemingway. After him are Erwin Schrödinger, Dag Hammarskjöld, Patrice Lumumba, Gary Cooper, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Emily Greene Balch, Jules Bordet, Zog I of Albania, and Rafael Trujillo.

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In Switzerland

Among people born in Switzerland, Carl Jung ranks 5 out of 876. Before him are Jean-Jacques Rousseau (1712), Leonhard Euler (1707), Le Corbusier (1887), and Paracelsus (1493). After him are Jean Piaget (1896), Henry Dunant (1828), Ferdinand de Saussure (1857), Johann Heinrich Pestalozzi (1746), Jean-Paul Marat (1743), Sepp Blatter (1936), and Paul Klee (1879).

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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), Édouard Claparède (1873), Auguste Forel (1848), and Théodore Flournoy (1854).

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