Carl Jung (1875-1961)
- Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist who emphasized the importance of looking to abstract subjects such as dreams, art, mythology, world religion and philosophy in order to help define certain psychological processes.
- In addition to founding Analytical Psychology, he also introduced and defined several new concepts into the field such as the Collective Unconscious, the Archetype, the complex, and his theory of Synchronicity.
- Jung was also an amateur astrologer, and although he did not write any works specifically directed towards the subject, aside from his write-up of an astrological experiment that he conducted, the concepts that he introduced into the filed of psychology were picked up and expounded upon by astrologers towards the end of the 20th century, and they changed the way that astrologers viewed and described the concepts that they work with.
- His greatest impact upon the field of astrology was arguably through his theory of synchronicity, because it provided astrologers with a type of consistent theoretical framework with which to explain how astrology worked, which is something that had been missing, or not explicitly stated and agreed upon by the astrological community for centuries.
Further reading
- Roderick Main, Jung on Synchronicity and the Paranormal, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1997, ISBN 0691058377
- Carl Gustav Jung, The Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Vol. 8: Synchronicity, Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ, 1973
