THEORIES OF PERSONALITY

NAME: Villalobos, Rein Carlo V.

SECTION: BS PSY 2104
Biography of Carl Jung And Melanie Klein
-Carl Jung

Carl Gustav Jung was born on July 26, 1875, in Kesswil, a town on Lake Constance in Switzerland. His paternal

grandfather, the elder Carl Gustav Jung, was a prominent physician in Basel and one of the best-known men of that

city. A local rumor suggested that the elder Carl Jung was the illegitimate son of the great German poet Goethe.

Jung eventually realized that he had two distinct personas, which he referred to as his No. 1 and No. 2

personalities. He first considered both identities to be a part of his own universe, but as a teenager, he began to

realize that the No. 2 personality was a mirror of someone else—an elderly guy who had long ago passed away.

While Jung was in his first year of medical school, his father died, leaving him in care of his mother and sister.

Jung spent the last six months in Paris in 1902–1903 studying under Pierre Janet, who succeeded Charcot. In 1903,

upon his return to Switzerland, he wed Emma Rauschenbach, a young, educated, and affluent Swiss woman. Jung,

in Freud opinion, would be the best successor. Jung was not Jewish or a native of Vienna, in contrast to the other

men in Freud circle of acquaintances and adherents. In addition, Freud thought highly of Jung and had a good

personal relationship with him. Jung was chosen by Freud to serve as the first president of the International

Psychoanalytic Association due to these credentials.

Jung began to separate from Freudian theory, rejecting Freud’s emphasis on sex as the sole source of behavior

motivation. It was during this period of intense self-analysis that Jung became increasingly interested in dreams

and symbols, later using what he learned during this time as the basis for his theories of psychology.

Jung became more organized about his theoretical approach, broke from psychodynamic theories, and formed his

own theory called Analytical Psychology.

In 1944, he became professor of medical psychology at the University of Basel, but poor health forced him to

resign his position the following year. After his wife died in 1955, he was mostly alone, the “wise old man of

Küsnacht.” He died on June 6, 1961, in Zürich, a few weeks short of his 86th birthday. At the time of his death,

Jung’s reputation was worldwide, extending beyond psychology to include philosophy, religion, and popular

Culture

Melanie Klein

On March 30, 1882, Melanie Reizes Klein was born in Vienna, Austria. She is the youngest born of Dr. Moriz
Reizes and his second wife, Libussa Deutsch Reizes, Klein believed that her birth was unplanned which, leads to
her own belief and feelings of being rejected by her parents. At the time Melanie Klein was born, her father had
long since rebelled against his early Orthodox Jewish training and had ceased to practice any religion.
Consequently, Klein grew up in a family that was neither pro-religious nor antireligious. She aspired to become a
physician.