A calm, carefully researched bedtime biography of Carl Gustav Jung — the Swiss psychiatrist whose work on dreams, the shadow, psychological types and the development of the self became some of the most influential ideas in modern psychology.
Tonight’s story follows Jung from his unusual childhood beside a Swiss lake and his early fascination with the inner world, through his medical training and work in psychiatry, his intense friendship and eventual break with Sigmund Freud, and the years in which he developed the ideas that would become Analytical Psychology.
Along the way, we explore Jung’s ideas about dreams, the unconscious, the shadow, introversion and extraversion, individuation and the lifelong process of becoming more fully yourself.
We also follow him through the deeply personal years surrounding the Red Book, to the stone tower he built at Bollingen and the quieter final decades of a long, searching life.
Told slowly and gently for sleep, relaxation and quiet late-night listening. There is nothing you need to remember and nowhere you need to get to. Simply close your eyes, settle in, and let the story carry you.
Sleep Stories from the Pioneers is a series of calm, research-led journeys through the lives and ideas of the people who changed how we understand ourselves.
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Stories to fall asleep to. Ideas worth waking up with.
