A Life Of Jung Summary

A Life of Jung written by Ronald Hayman published in 2001 is about the life of one of the greatest psychologist in the world Carl Jung. He begins the book with Carl’s family his grandparents and his parents in 1794 then tells about Jung 's life experience and his work life. This book is very well written and made Jung to look like the hero of his own story. Carl Gustav Jung was born in Kesswil Switzerland to parents Emilie Preiswerk and Paul Jung. Paul was appointed chaplain at Friedman mental hospital in 1879 after Carl was born. This book goes through Jung 's life and studies. Hayman writes about Jung’s unusual time with his patients and the experiences he had that brought Carl to his beliefs and studies. He looks to him as a damaged genius. He …show more content…
He was one of the greatest psychologist of all time and to this day is still affecting the world of psychology. His beliefs and theories are still alive even though he is not. He was a strange person but, still loved his family. He has had several books written about his and this one claims to have the most information on him than any other biography ever written. Haymans stories were entertaining but some were hard to follow. He criticized Jung for some of his stuff and made sure the read knew that he was great but could never be as great as Sigmund Freud. Jung was a brilliant but crazy character and this book paints him in this exact way. The names of the chapters were quite comical. I found his life to be interesting and tragic. His dream about God pooping on the church was strange and the way he referred to God was odd to. I do not like he actually ever used God’s name but used other wording for him. Some of it was very interesting but at the same some was hard to keep up with. Finding out that he and Freud was quite interesting. Being in the same room as two of the greatest minds in psychology must have been very