"I have not chosen my life; She has come to me with a strength that is not mine."

Carl Gustav Jung (1875/1961) is the most interesting and puzzling of the "fathers" of psychoanalysis. As a young psychiatrist, he met Freud in Vienna in 1907. It was a reciprocal intellectual crush. Three years later, Freud, who had just founded psychoanalysis, officially designated him his heir. But the two fell out in 1912, until their final break, in 1914.

Jung then founded his own school of depth psychology. According to him, sexuality is not the only thing that governs human behavior and rejects Freud's materialistic and atheistic vision. A free and curious spirit, Jung lived spiritual experiences that would change him profoundly, and that served as the basis for his ideas about the "archetypes", the "shadow" or the "collective unconscious".

Thanks to Jung's most secret correspondence and the testimonies of those close to him, Jean-Jacques Antier illuminates the complexity of this genius in its intellectual, spiritual and scientific diversity, and explores the complex relationship that Jung maintained throughout his life with the religious phenomenon and spirituality. With a pleasant and fluid style, avoiding the specialized language that usually characterizes this genre, the author tells the fascinating biography of one of the most important thinkers and therapists of the twentieth century.