![]() ![]() He kept an empty chair for the ghost of his first wife and had regular and hithnate conversations with her. Jung's mother's family had a tradition of spiritualism and mysticism, and his maternal grandfather, Samuel Preiswerk, was a believer in the occult and often talked to the dead. In fact, eight of Jung's maternal uncles and two of his paternal uncles were pastors, so both religion and medicine were prevalent in his family. Jung's father, Johann Paul Jung, was a minister in the Swiss Reformed Church, and his mother, Emilie Preiswerk Jung, was the daughter of a theologian. Although the elder Jung never acknowledged the rumor, the younger Jung, at least sometimes, believed himself to be the great-grandson of Goethe (Ellen-berger, 1970).īoth of Jung's parents were the youngest of 13 children, a situation that may have contributed to some of the difficulties they had hi their marriage. A local rumor suggested that the elder Carl Jung was the illegitimate son of the great German poet Goethe. His paternal grandfather, the elder Carl Gustav Jung, was a prominent physician hi Basel and one of the best-known men of that city. ![]() ![]() Carl Gustav Jung was born on July 26, 1875, hi Kesswil, a town on Lake Constance in Switzerland. ![]()
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