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The Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961) was a founder of modern depth psychology.

The son of a country pastor, he studied at Basel (1895–1900) and Zurich (M.D., 1902). After a stint at the University Psychiatric Clinic in Zurich, Jung worked (1902) under Eugen Bleuler at the Burgholzli Clinic. He wrote valuable papers, but more important was his book on the psychology of dementia praecox (1906), which led to a meeting (1907) with Sigmund Freud. Finding that their theoretical positions had much in common, the two formed a close relationship for a number of years: Jung edited the Jahrbuch fur psychologische und psychopathologische Forschungen and was made (1911) president of the International Psychoanalytic Society. However, a formal break with Freud came with the publication of Jung's revolutionary work The Psychology of the Unconscious (1912), which disagreed with the Freudian emphasis on sexual trauma as the basis for all neurosis and with the literal interpretation of the Oedipus complex. The American aviator Amelia Mary Earhart Putnam (1897-1937) remains the world's best-known woman pilot long after her mysterious disappearance during a round-the-world flight in 1937.

She was the first person to fly alone from Honolulu to California (1935). In 1937, she attempted with a copilot, Frederick J. Noonan, to fly around the world, but her plane was lost on the flight between New Guinea and Howland Island. In 1992, a search party reported finding remnants of Earhart's plane on Nikumaroro (formerly Gardner Island), Kiribati, but their claims were disputed by people who worked on Earhart's plane, and her fate remains a mystery. In 1964, Geraldine Mock was the first woman to successfully complete Earhart's round-the-world route. Earhart was married to G. P. Putnam (1887–1950) in 1931. Fidel Castro Ruz (born 1926) was Cuban prime minister and first secretary of the Communist party of Cuba. A lawyer by training, Castro led the Cuban Revolution and transformed the island into the first Communist state in the Western Hemisphere. Although Gene Kelly (1912-1996) established his reputation as an actor and dancer, his contribution to the Hollywood musical also embraces choreography and direction.

Kelly started dancing on Broadway in 1938 and first gained fame in the title role of the Broadway musical Pal Joey (1940). He moved to Hollywood in 1941 and soon starred in his first film, For Me and My Gal (1942). His best-known work was in motion pictures, where he excelled in an inventive combination of camera and dance techniques in such films as On the Town (1949), An American in Paris (1951; Academy Award), Singin' in the Rain (1952)—which contains his single most famous performance—and Invitation to the Dance (1956). Athletically graceful, a skillful and expressive dancer with a joyfully muscular yet lyrical style, he also sang in a thin yet appealing voice. Kelly appeared in such film musicals as Anchors Aweigh (1945), Take Me Out to the Ballgame (1949), Brigadoon (1954), and Les Girls (1957). He also played dramatic film roles, as in Inherit the Wind (1960), and directed several movies, including The Happy Road (1950) and Hello Dolly (1969). Known for playing offbeat characters in movies like The Usual Suspects (1995), for which he won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar, L.A. Confidential (1997), and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil (1997), he began his career on the stage, with the New York Shakespeare Festival, and won a Tony Award for Lost in Yonkers (1991). He worked with Jack Lemmon on stage and television in O'Neill's Long Day's Journey Into Night (1987) and in film in David Mamet's Glengarry Glen Ross (1992). His role in the 1999 film American Beauty earned him a Best Actor Oscar. Other films include Pay It Forward(2000), and The Shipping News (2001). He made his directorial debut in 1996 with Albino Alligator. Matt LeBlanc was born on July 25, 1967 in Newton, Massachusetts. As a kid, he was not very interested in acting. He preferred motorcycling. After receiving his first motorcycle at age 8, LeBlanc started participating in various amateur competitions with hopes of racing professionally. He soon ran into a roadblock: his mother, who forced him to find a different outlet for his talents. LeBlanc trained for a career in carpentry, but aspired to incorporate artistic elements to it.

After graduating from high school, he set his sights on making a life for himself in New York City. By 1987, LeBlanc had obtained parts in national television commercials for such products as Levi's 501 jeans, Coca-Cola, and Doritos. He also appeared in a Heinz catsup spot that won the prestigious Gold Lion Award at the 1987 Cannes Film Festival.

In 1988, LeBlanc started formal acting training. Within a year, he landed a starring role in the television series "TV 101," and moved to Los Angeles. LeBlanc also guest-starred on the cable series "Red Shoe Diaries".

LeBlanc is currently engaged to model Melissa McKnight and is living with his dog, Lady.

Scoring a role on the television series TV 101 found the fresh-faced actor relocating to sunny Los Angeles, and although the show was quickly canceled, LeBlanc continued with appearances in television's Married With Children and in such short-lived series as Top of the Heap and Vinny and Bobby in the early '90s. Following his breakthrough in Friends in 1994, Leblanc gained a reputation as somewhat of a party guy with a penchant for womanizing, though he would later deflect the image as he settled down in his marriage to Meliss McKnight. Numerous disputes over salary also brought the cast of Friends frequently into the public eye, and LeBlanc attempted to solidify a cinematic career with roles in such features as Ed (1996), Lost in Space (1998), and Charlie's Angels (2000). Though hobbies such as parachute jumping and car racing suggest that his thrill-seeking habits didn't die with the end of his motorbike racing aspirations, LeBlanc opted out of performing his own stunts after his double was injured during the filming of All the Queen's Men in 2001 Dark-haired, browned eyed smoldering beauty who began acting at age four in the 1943 movie, Happy Land. Wood acted steadily until her accidental drowning death in 1981. Wood was nominated for three Oscars, but may be best known for her role as Maria in the film version of West Side Story (1961). She earned her first nomination, as best supporting actress, for her portrayal of Judy in the classic Rebel Without a Cause (1955) and followed that with best actress nominations for her role as Wilma Dean Loomis in Splendor in the Grass (1961) and for her role as Angie Rossini in Love with the Perfect Stranger (1963). She married actor Robert Wagner in 1957, divorced in 1962, and remarried him in 1972. The couple had one daughter, Courtney Brooke, in 1974. The work of the Scottish poet Robert Burns (1759-1796) is characterized by realism, intense feeling, and metrical virtuosity. His best work is in Scots, the vernacular of southern Scotland, and he is one of the greatest authors in that language of the last 4 centuries.

Robert Burns was born in Alloway, Ayrshire, on Jan. 25, 1759, in the cottage of hard-working farmer parents. He grew up in the general atmosphere of dour Scottish Calvinism, but his father's moderate religious views helped instill in Burns a spirit of tolerance and of rebellion against the grimmer doctrines of Calvinism. Although Burns's formal schooling was skimpy, he read avidly and for a time had a good tutor in John Murdoch, who gave him a thorough grounding in the 18th-century genteel tradition of English literature.

See his poems (ed. by J. L. Robertson, 1953); letters (ed. by D. Ferguson and G. Ross Roy, 2 vol., 1985); biographies by M. Lindsay (2d ed. 1968) and R. T. Fitzhugh (1970); studies by D. Daiches (1978), H. Hecht (1985), and C. McGuirk (1985). The heavy-lidded, commanding actor is best remembered for his tough-guy roles in Westerns, war films and films noir. Mitchum once said he would play just about any part, and he did, usually to perfection. In the late 1940s, Mitchum was known as a bad boy, having been arrested for“conspiracy to possess marijuana.” His films include The Story of G.I. Joe, Out of the Past, The Night of the Hunter and Cape Fear. When Robert Redford (born 1937) appeared in the 1969 hit motion picture Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, he was already well on his way to becoming an American motion picture icon. Known for his good looks, intelligence and commercial success, Redford's successes in writing, directing and producing motion pictures, as well as his establishment of the Sundance Institute, has made him a household name throughout the world.

His films include Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969), All the President's Men (1976), The Natural (1984), The Horse Whisperer (1998, which he also directed) and Spy Game (2001). Redford runs the Sundance Institute, an organization that promotes and supports independent filmmakers and sponsors the annual Sundance Film Festival.