Jung’s personal life paved the way for the expansion of his theoretical notions.
His loneliness as a child is reflected in his personality theory, which focuses on the inner world of the individual.
Jung’s emotional distance from his parents contributed to his feeling of being cut off from the external world of conscious reality.
Jung had a difficult and unhappy childhood marked by deaths, funerals, neurotic parents in a failing marriage, religious doubts and conflicts, and bizarre dreams and visions.
Largely as a way of escaping the difficulties of his childhood and the marital tensions between his parents, Jung turned inward and became preoccupied with pursuing his unconscious experiences as reflected in his dreams, visions, and fantasies.
This preoccupation with his inner subjective world guided Jung throughout his life and influenced the development of his theory of personality (Schultz & Schultz, 2009).