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Carl Gustav Carus

Born

Leipzig, Germany

Genre

Philosophy, Psychology

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Carl Gustav Carus (3 January 1789 – 28 July 1869) was a German physiologist and painter, born in Leipzig, who played various roles during the Romantic era. A friend of the writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, he was a many-sided man: a doctor, a naturalist, a scientist, a psychologist, and a landscape painter who studied under Caspar David Friedrich.

Carl Jung credited Carus with pointing to the unconscious as the essential basis of the psyche.

Although various philosophers, among them Leibniz, Kant, and Schelling, had already pointed very clearly to the problem of the dark side of the psyche, it was a physician who felt impelled, from his scientific and medical experience, to point to the unconscious as the essential basis of the psyche. Thi ...more

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Average rating: 3.82 · 34 ratings · 4 reviews · 128 distinct works

	Psyche: On the Development of the Soul, Part One: The Unconscious by Carl Gustav Carus, James Hillman (Introduction), Murray Stein (Précis) 3.82 avg rating — 17 ratings — published 1846 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Nine Letters on Landscape Painting: Written in the Years 1815-1824, with a Letter from Goethe by way of Introduction by Carl Gustav Carus, David Britt (Translator), Oskar Batschmann (Introduction) 3.90 avg rating — 10 ratings — published 1932 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Viaje a la Isla de Rügen, tras las huellas de Caspar David Friedrich really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 4 ratings — published 2008 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Goethe zu dessen näherem Verständnis it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011 — 15 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Psique: Sobre a história do desenvolvimento da alma by Carl Gustav Carus, Sidnei Vilmar Noé (Translator) really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 1846 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Grundzüge allgemeiner Naturbetrachtung did not like it 1.00 avg rating — 1 rating — published 2011	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The King of Saxony's journey through England and Scotland in the year 1844 [electronic resource] 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2013 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	De la peinture de paysage dans l'Allemagne romantique by Carl Gustav Carus, Caspar David Friedrich 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2003	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mnemosyne Blätter aus Gedenk und Tagebüchern 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2014 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Vergleichende Psychologie: Oder Geschichte der Seele in der Reihenfolge der Thierwelt (Classic Reprint) 0.00 avg rating — 0 ratings — published 2015 — 19 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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