Jung

[ yoong ]

/ yʊŋ /

noun

Carl Gus·tav

[kahrl -goos-tahf], /kɑrl ˈgʊs tɑf/, 1875–1961, Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist.

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Example sentences from the Web for Jung

Jung says that we lose our vitality in playing the role if we identify with it.
Joseph Campbell on the Roots of Halloween|Joseph Campbell|October 31, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Jung, not Freud, liked fairy tales for what they tell us about human nature.
Only Six Books: Excerpt From Jeanette Winterson’s New Memoir|Jeanette Winterson|March 7, 2012|DAILY BEAST
The tryst causes a professional fissure between Jung and his psychiatrist mentor, Sigmund Freud, played by Viggo Mortensen.
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“Jung wrote down what they were—her tics, spasms, laughing spells, body deformations, and distortions,” says Cronenberg.
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This then forms a rift between Jung and his mentor, renowned psychiatrist Sigmund Freud, played by Viggo Mortensen.
David Cronenberg on 'A Dangerous Method,' Robert Pattinson's Acting, and S&M With Keira Knightley|Marlow Stern|November 20, 2011|DAILY BEAST
In England Jung had seen brass guns cast by the score during his short visit to the foundry.
A Journey to Katmandu|Laurence Oliphant
Jung follows Freud in pointing out as a classic example of the compensation in dreams, that of Nebuchadnezzar, in the Bible.
The Behavior of Crowds|Everett Dean Martin
I believe he was going to say that he would see about confirming our appointments when old Jung interrupted.
The Disputed V.C.|Frederick P. Gibbon
Jung Sin, the little red worms of madness crawling in his brain, paused for a final taunt.
When the Sleepers Woke|Arthur Leo Zagat
But it is not with the peasantry alone that Jung is so deservedly a favourite.
A Journey to Katmandu|Laurence Oliphant

British Dictionary definitions for Jung

Jung

/ (jʊŋ) /

noun

Carl Gustav (karl ˈɡʊstaf). 1875–1961, Swiss psychologist. His criticism of Freud's emphasis on the sexual instinct ended their early collaboration. He went on to found analytical psychology, developing the concepts of the collective unconscious and its archetypes and of the extrovert and introvert as the two main psychological types

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Jung

[ yung ]

Carl Gustav 1875-1961

Swiss psychiatrist who founded analytical psychology and came up with the concepts of extraversion and introversion and the notion of the collective unconscious.

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