Article: C.G. Jung-prophet of the self: a psychologist, a thinker and a visionary, like other mystics, Carl Jung has battled with the demons in the soul's dark abysses. A brief look at his life and work.

Early in the 20th century, Sigmund Freud was dissatisfied with psychoanalysis being rejected by the majority of the medical community, not least because his predominantly Jewish disciples were considered as a Jewish sect. Although he was an agnostic, Freud always affirmed his Jewishness notwithstanding the anti-Semitism prevailing then in Vienna.

Unexpectedly, a chance to "break out of the Jewish ghetto" turned up in the shape of Zurich's famous Burgholzli psychiatric clinic. Its head, Eugen Bleuler, began to use the largely defamed Freudian psychoanalytical methods for the treatment of his patients. So did his assistant, the indefatigable trailblazer Carl Gustav ...

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