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Reading Path & a LifeEight books, one timeline
Start with the most readable. Man and His Symbols is Jung's parting gift to the general reader; The Red Book is his most private experiment — between them lies a whole road.
Man and His Symbols
Jung's last book, written for the general reader: dreams, archetypes and the unconscious, fully illustrated, zero prerequisites. Start hereMemories, Dreams, Reflections
Jung's late-life self-portrait: childhood, the break with Freud, the confrontation with the unconscious — how a theory grows out of one fate. Spiritual autobiographyThe Red Book
The facsimile of the 1913–1930 confrontation with the unconscious: blazing paintings and dialogues. You need not finish it; opening it is enough. The primal sourceAnalytical Psychology
Five lectures to a clinical audience, conversational, with Q&A — the best door into Jung's own prose. Easiest of his own worksPsychological Types
The source text of E/I and the four functions; read it to learn what MBTI left out.Jung's Map of the Soul
A systematic tour by a past president of the IAAP: the Collected Works fitted onto one map. Advanced mapThe Middle Passage
A Jungian analyst on the midlife turn: switching tracks from "living successfully" to "living authentically." 35+ essentialFairy Tales and the Japanese Psyche
Japan's first Jungian analyst reads fairy tales as portraits of the unconscious — a demonstration of amplification beloved by Eastern readers.1875 – 1961年表
The Life of C. G. JungA Life of C. G. Jung
Born on Lake Constance
July 26, in Kesswil, Switzerland, into a family steeped in religion; childhood dreams and inner experiences shaped him deeply.
The Burghölzli hospital
Joined Zurich's famous psychiatric clinic under Eugen Bleuler; the word association experiment was born here, and with it the concept of complexes.
Meeting Freud
First met in Vienna, talking for thirteen hours; became a core figure of the psychoanalytic movement and first president of the International Psychoanalytical Association.
The break and the confrontation
Broke with Freud's theory and resigned his offices; in the years that followed he descended into his own unconscious — the confrontation recorded in The Red Book.
Psychological Types
Published introversion/extraversion and the four functions; later adapted by the Myers mother-and-daughter team into MBTI.
The Bollingen Tower
Began building a stone tower by Lake Zurich, where for years he lived in retreat, carving stone and painting — practicing his dialogue with the inner world.
The C. G. Jung Institute
The Jung Institute in Zurich was founded; he had been a professor at ETH Zurich since 1935.
Synchronicity
Published Nature Interpretation and the Psyche with the physicist Wolfgang Pauli, proposing the "acausal connecting principle."
Death in Küsnacht
Died at home on June 6, aged 85; Memories, Dreams, Reflections and Man and His Symbols followed after his death.
The Red Book appears
W. W. Norton published The Red Book in full-size facsimile — Jung's most private experiment finally in daylight.
This site is an educational digest for study and self-exploration, drawing on the IAAP, Encyclopædia Britannica, Jung's Collected Works and letters, and classic Jungian authors. It is not medical or psychotherapeutic advice.