CG Jung was born on July 26 1875, in Kesswil, Switzerland, as one of two surviving children of Paul Achilles Jung, and Emilie Preswick. He remained an only child until the age of nine when his sister, Johanna was born. Growing up, Jung was an introverted child, without many friends, and believed he had two different personalities, one the introverted Swiss school boy, and the other an old, respected, extraverted French gentleman from the last century. This may in part be due to exposure from his mother’s depression, and schizoid like tendencies. She claimed she was possessed by spirits by night, and had many different personalities. Jung often claimed his mother’s depression, and frequent absences were what gave him a patriarchal view of women.
