Carl Jung was a well-known and influential psychologist of the 20th century. He founded many psychological ideas such as extroverted and introverted personalities, archetypes, and the collective unconscious. Jung's main focus in his studies was psychology, but he also incorporated other subjects such as religion, mythology, and alchemy. He developed a rapid interest in alchemy late in life, after having a vivid dream about a library of archaic books. He eventually came to have a library like this as his own. After intense research, Carl Jung adapted the idea that alchemy was a metaphor for psychological processes rather than an actual alchemical experiment. Some of his developed ideas included the thought that the contents of the alchemists' psyches were unconsciously projected onto the materials. Jung was able to align alchemical symbols with his theories in psychology, creating further and profound ideas. He also believed that alchemical language, used during experiments or afterwards to describe them, was an expression of psychological processes. Formulating his own perspective on the ideas of alchemy was the turning point in Carl Jung's career, leading to a substantial change in his approach to psychology as he was able to match alchemical symbols with his theory of individuation. Carl Jung was born in 1875 in the country of Switzerland and later passed away in 1961. He was a very influential psychologist who founded the habits of analytical psychology in response to Freud's psychoanalytic theory. He had many discoveries and research that still influence psychology today. As a child, Jung spent most of his time alone and, therefore, had a rather disappointing childhood. He felt happiest when...... middle of paper ......one of Carl Jung's ideas about alchemy that relates to psychology is the belief that, during experiments, the psyche of alchemists was unconsciously projected onto the materials and outcome of the experiment. He says that alchemists would unconsciously put their own thoughts and psyche into their experiments making them think they are doing experiments chemically, but instead you see their unconscious. The true nature of the matter was truly unknown to the alchemists, in Jung's mind; they only knew clues about what might happen. They try to explore it and supposedly put their unconscious into the darkness to further illuminate the alchemical experience. In reality, one's own psychic background is projected and this is what is explained in the meetings. Overall, Carl Jung's exploration of alchemy only made his theories stronger and more successful.