The breakup of Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud
Humans are very complex and every individual born with unique characters and traits. Understanding human nature and how they react is important. Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung contribute a lot in the field of psychology and both are considered as the “founders of the modern psychoanalytic movement".
Sigmund Freud
Sigmund Freud (1856–1939) was the “founding father of psychoanalysis”. He born in Moravia in 1856, at an early stage, Freud and his family moved to Australia. Freud worked a lot on human thoughts and behaviors and emphasize the importance of the unconscious mind. He focused on the formative development of the sexual drive. He is famous for developing “techniques of psychoanalysis”.
Carl Jung
Carl Jung (1875–1961) was the Swiss psychologist and the “founder of analytic psychology” which is opposite to the Freudian concept. During his childhood, he used to be alone and play by himself. He was particularly knowledgeable in the symbolism connected to different traditions. He was the first who explores the religious perspective behind human psychology.
The first meeting of Freud and Jung.
Carl Jung met Freud in 1907. Their first meeting lasted 13 hours straight. Jung was thoroughly impressed by the person. And Freud became a father figure to Jung. This was the beginning of a 5-year friendship that ended bitterly with the publication of Jung’s book “Psychology of the Unconscious”.
Confliction between Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung
Jung saw Freud’s theory of the unconscious as “incomplete and unnecessarily negative”. According to Jung, Freud conceived the unconscious just as repressed emotions and desires. Jung agreed with Freud’s model of the unconscious, as Jung called the “personal unconscious”, but he also proposed the existence of a second, far deeper form of the unconscious, which underlies the personal one. This was the “collective unconscious”, where the archetypes themselves resided. Freud saw sex everywhere and Jung thought that this was bit much.
Freud did not agree with Jung's concept of collective unconscious and religion and stated that it’s “unscientific”. Freud thought that Jung betrayed psychoanalysis by becoming a mystic. There was actually an intellectual disagreement. At last, Freud ended it in a letter from 1913.
According to my perspective, I support the Jung concept of the collective unconscious. For instance, I agree that there is some sexual basis but not the only one, our personality also governed by cultural and racial influences.
It’s my opinion, which idea you will support!
