Carl Jung

Imagine your mind as a huge, mysterious castle with secret rooms filled with hidden feelings and symbols. Did you know that a scientist named Carl Jung spent his life exploring these hidden rooms? He was like a detective of the invisible parts of our thoughts!

Carl Jung was born in Switzerland in 1875 and lived into the mid-1900s. He worked as a psychiatrist—a doctor for the mind. At first, he teamed up with Sigmund Freud, but soon they disagreed. Jung’s big focus was on understanding the hidden part of our minds—something he called the unconscious.

One of Jung’s most famous ideas is that we have not just a personal unconscious—our own forgotten memories and feelings—but also a collective unconscious. This collective unconscious is like a giant library in our minds that holds stories, symbols, and dreams shared by everyone, like dragons, heroes, and magical forests that show up in tales all over the world.

Thanks to Carl Jung, people like psychologists, artists, and storytellers use his ideas to understand dreams, myths, and symbols. By exploring the secret rooms of your mind, just like Jung did, you can learn more about yourself, discover creative ideas, and find the courage to be uniquely you.