Carl Jung: The Fainting Schoolboy, Freud's Crown Prince and the Red Book

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At 12, Carl Jung was knocked down by a classmate and began fainting whenever he tried to study, staying home for six months until he overheard his father worrying about money and forced himself through a Latin grammar until the spells stopped. Born in 1875 to a Swiss Reformed pastor he saw as spiritually hollow and a mother who said spirits visited her at night, Jung felt split into personality number one, an ordinary schoolboy, and number two, a dignified man from the 18th century. He hid a carved mannequin in his pencil case in the attic, a ritual he later matched to soul stones and churingas.

At the Burghölzli hospital in Zurich under Eugen Bleuler, his timed word association tests revealed what he called complexes. His 1903 marriage to Emma Rauschenbach, heiress to the IWC watch company, gave him financial freedom. After a 13 hour first meeting in 1907, Sigmund Freud named him his crown prince and first president of the International Psychoanalytical Association, but they split by 1913 over the libido and the collective unconscious. Jung then recorded his visions in the Red Book, built a stone tower at Bollingen, and developed introversion, extroversion, the persona, the shadow, and the anima and animus.

Why Freud wanted a Swiss Christian to protect psychoanalysis from being called a Jewish science
The Kreuzlingen snub and Freud fainting during a meeting in Munich
Synchronicity, which Jung kept teaching though his statistical experiments failed
His advice to an alcoholic American businessman that helped inspire Alcoholics Anonymous
The duality of man line in Stanley Kubrick's Full Metal Jacket

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