A Perspective on the Life and Ideas of Carl G. Jung However, just before this falling out occurred, Jung was appointed as the President of the International Psychoanalytic Association in 1911, which infuriated the other members, who were part of the movement longer than Jung, and predominantly Jewish. They felt that he only got the position because he was Freud 's favorite, and that Jung himself might have had an anti-Semitic viewpoint. Officially, Jung had been appointed over the more senior members because of Freud 's fears that if the president was Jewish the movement would be hindered by anti-Semitism. Of course, not long after Freud and Jung were no longer friends, and by 1914 Jung had handed in his resignation.
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Introversion and extraversion are concepts which focused on the libido, that is, the life energy of a person (Schultz & Schultz, 2012). Extraverts focus this energy externally, focusing more on events and other people than the self. They are generally characterized as being self-confident and sociable. Adversely, introverts focus their life energy towards themselves, and are characterized as being far less comfortable in interacting with different people and strange situations. Of course, Jung held that no person was completely one or the other, and were in fact either depending on the circumstances at any given …show more content…
His main basis for his theories was himself, and as he held a distaste for the scientific method which has scared off many experimental psychologists (Schultz & Schultz, 2012). Many psychologists have found that Jung 's theories were too heavily based in religion to appeal to them, and most feel that he relied too much on interpretation and observation rather than actual laboratory investigations. That said, there are still parts of Jung 's work which have had an effect on psychology. For example, early in his psychological career, Jung invented the word-association test which is still in use today, and is in fact, a standard laboratory tool. Further, his eight personality types sparked a large quantity of research, and lead to the eventual creation of a widely used personality test, as well as a test to measure introversion and extraversion. Still, the vast majority of his work has fallen by the wayside in psychology, though Carl Jung has been able to influence religion, literature, and
Of course, by that …show more content…
Introversion and extraversion are concepts which focused on the libido, that is, the life energy of a person (Schultz & Schultz, 2012). Extraverts focus this energy externally, focusing more on events and other people than the self. They are generally characterized as being self-confident and sociable. Adversely, introverts focus their life energy towards themselves, and are characterized as being far less comfortable in interacting with different people and strange situations. Of course, Jung held that no person was completely one or the other, and were in fact either depending on the circumstances at any given …show more content…
His main basis for his theories was himself, and as he held a distaste for the scientific method which has scared off many experimental psychologists (Schultz & Schultz, 2012). Many psychologists have found that Jung 's theories were too heavily based in religion to appeal to them, and most feel that he relied too much on interpretation and observation rather than actual laboratory investigations. That said, there are still parts of Jung 's work which have had an effect on psychology. For example, early in his psychological career, Jung invented the word-association test which is still in use today, and is in fact, a standard laboratory tool. Further, his eight personality types sparked a large quantity of research, and lead to the eventual creation of a widely used personality test, as well as a test to measure introversion and extraversion. Still, the vast majority of his work has fallen by the wayside in psychology, though Carl Jung has been able to influence religion, literature, and