1875 – 1961 · Kesswil · Zurich · Küsnacht · Switzerland

Carl Jung

The sixth master, and the hall's physician of the deep. Carl Jung was Freud's chosen heir — until he broke with his teacher, descended into his own unconscious, and came back carrying a map: the shadow we refuse, the mask we mistake for our face, the dreams that correct us in the night, and individuation, the long work of becoming who we truly are. In this house he is fenced as every master is, and with one fence more, which he would have insisted on himself: here he teaches his ideas. He does not practise analysis.

His books

A psychiatrist's shelf, built over fifty years. Psychological Types (1921) gave the world introversion and extraversion. The essays gathered as The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious laid out the shadow, the persona, and the Self. Aion (1951) and the scandalous, searching Answer to Job (1952) took on the God-image itself. His own descent is recorded in two places: the Red Book, his illuminated journal of the years he confronted his unconscious, published only in 2009 — and Memories, Dreams, Reflections (1962), the autobiography of his inner life. Last came Man and His Symbols (1964), written for ordinary readers after he dreamed that this, and not another treatise, was his task.

His method

The shadow. “Everyone carries a shadow, and the less it is embodied in the individual's conscious life, the blacker and denser it is.” “Psychology and Religion” (1938) What we refuse in ourselves, we meet in other people.

Fate, faced or fled. “When an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate.” Aion (1951) The sentence the world quotes — that what stays unconscious directs your life and you call it fate — is this doctrine in shorter clothes.

The mirror of irritation. “Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.” Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Dreams as messages. “The dream is a little hidden door in the innermost and most secret recesses of the soul.” From his essays on dreams Not a wish in disguise, as Freud taught — a letter from the other side of oneself, read by its images, never by a dictionary.

The meeting. “The meeting of two personalities is like the contact of two chemical substances: if there is any reaction, both are transformed.” Modern Man in Search of a Soul (1933)

His room

His room stands open — his persona bible stands written, anchored to the Collected Works, the memoir, the letters, and the Red Book, with his deflections marked where his record runs out and his one extra fence built in: teacher, not therapist. In this house every master gets a bible before a room. His conversation itself opens below, as it does for the others.