ABSTRACT
Jung had a decidedly ambivalent relationship towards organizations. At the beginning of his professional career he displayed an extraverted role in the politics of psychoanalysis. His leadership qualities were recognized by many of the early members, and Freud anointed him as the “crown prince” in 1908. He was elected the first president of the newly founded International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) in 1909, a position he held for four years until the breakdown of his relationship with Freud. Freud had Jung removed from the presidency, even though Jung won 60 percent of the delegates’ votes at the psychoanalytic congress in Munich in September 1913. The only other time he became active in professional organizations was during the 1930s, when he reluctantly took on the presidency of the International Medical Society for Psychotherapy. Otherwise, on account of his introverted nature, he avoided organizational matters as much as possible.
