Journal Entry #7

Hessam

While reading Anthony Stevens book JUNG: A Very Short Introduction, I found some useful and interesting stuff that I could possibly incorporate as a background information for my TED talk.

  • Carl Jung comes from a family of medicine, theology, and spiritualism, which is probably where his interest in theology comes from
  • his father and mother didn't have the greatest marriage
    • Jung slept in a room with his father and his maother was in another room
  • his mother had a breakdown when he was 3 years old and was admitted into a hospital for many months
    • Jung developed a defensive attitude of emotional detachment because of his mother's absense
    • like most children that experience the loss of their mother, Jung became self-absorbed and self-reliant. However, unlike most cases, his independence was to an unusual degree.
    • he recalled being 'deeply troubled' by her absense and suffered nervous eczema and had terrible dreams
      • he was extremely mistrustful of love and often felt that women were unreliable because of his deteriorating relationship with his mother
    • because of his withdrawn and self-reliant behavior, he didn't get along with his classmates because he wasn't exactly friendly
      • he felt as though he didn't belong
      • he isolated himself as much as possible, but he claimed to prefer being alone with his thoughts
      • 'I played alone, daydreamed or strolled in the woods alone, and had a secret world of my own'