ABSTRACT
Carl Gustav Jung was bom on July 26, 1875, in Kesswil, a small village in Switzerland. His father was a Protestant country minister who was tormented by a lack of faith, and was unable to answer Jung’s penetrating questions about religion and life. Jung’s skepticism about the Oedipus complex may have been due in part to a mother who was a “kindly, fat old woman” troubled by marital difficulties (Jung, 1961/1965, p. 48), an influence quite different from that of Freud's beautiful, young doting mother. Like Freud, Jung rose from austere middle-class origins to the heights of world fame.
