Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud

Carl Jung (1875 – 1961) was a one time friend and colleague of Sigmund Freud, who initially held similar views to Freud. He started to feel dissatisfied with Freud’s ideas though and broke away from that school of thought in 1913. Jung also had a great interest in mystical and magical subjects, Buddhism and Hinduism, which influenced Jung’s own ideas on a theory of personality. He too, suggested there were 3 parts; the conscious mind (or ego), the personal unconscious, and the collective unconscious. ‘The main point of difference between the two men (Jung and Freud) was Freud’s definition of sexuality and libido. Although Jung conceded the importance of the

Before going over the differences between the two psychologist, Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud, covering the similarities between them is just as important in the world of psychology. Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud both subscribe to the idea that there is a conscious mind and an unconscious mind. Our unconscious mind is basically where we store all of our repressed traits and that they kind of agreed on even though Jung believed that we also store ancestral memory, but we will go into that difference later. They both believed that the unconscious is basically where we kept everything that we were not having in our conscious mind, and whenever we dream that is when these symbols can come out in order for us to realize them in a context like

It is generally accepted that the human existence is not merely encompassed in terms of isolated instincts or purposive mechanisms such as hunger, power, sex, survival, perpetuation of the species and so on (M.-L. von Franz 202). Men have always seeked a state of self-awareness -- a more spiritual type fulfillment that is attained by coming to terms with one’s role and purpose in the world. While this psychological phenomenon has been known intuitively by civilisations across time, it has been the aim of modern psychology dissect and explain it. Psychoanalyst Carl C. Jung in particular has made it a cornerstone of his career to study this human endeavour which he eventually coined individuation - “the process by which the conscious and unconscious within an individual learn to know, respect and accommodate one another.” (Freeman 14) His research proposes that individuation follows a universal pattern whereby one must encounter and assimilate a series of

In Jungian analysis, Jung believed that the unconscious is revealed through dreams and that there is collective unconscious in the human race. In the book Dune, the collective unconscious is shown in Paul and the Bene Gesserit.

An example of the innate need to question and change the way that psychologists think about a particular subject is when Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) first defined the unconscious as a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories, many psychologists agreed with Freud’s thinking; however, Carl Jung (1875-1961), believed that the unconscious was more than what Freud described. Jung believed that the unconscious has two layers: a collective unconscious- containing the shared memories of the common human past, which he named archetypes- and the

Carl Jung was a Swiss psychologist who had many theories that still influence the scientific field today. One of his more famous theories deals

    The great psychologist-philosopher Carl Jung was briefly a student of Freud. Because Jung felt that Freud's approach to psychoanalysis was by far too narrow, he broke off from his teachings, and made significant contributions to mythological criticism. Jung's greatest contribution was his theory of archetypes. His proposal of archetypes argues that there is one original pattern or model of all things of the same type. According to Jung, beneath the personal unconscious is a collective unconscious that is in the psychic inheritance of all humans. Jung thought of the collective unconscious as a sort of memory bank that stores images and ideas that humans have accumulated over the course

The purpose of this paper is to look into the life and accomplishments of a well-known psychoanalyst, Carl Gustav Jung. Jung’s work brought forth several new concepts in psychology. While alive, his work influenced colleagues and continued to influence the future of psychology after his death.

Carl Gustav Jung is a Swiss psychiatrist and the successor of psychoanalysis with important intellectual movements of the twentieth century. In his early career, Jung was influenced by the theory of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis (Breger 2000, p. 217). However, they came into disagreement in notions which then broke their relationship. It was because Freud’s view of myth was based on reality, which there was no religion involved, whereas Jung though that myth was based on both reality and religion. Consequently, Jung’s notions were commonly accepted by society because of the wider context. Then, through his research and clinical findings, he developed some concepts like archetypes, collective unconscious, shadow, extrovert and introvert and persona (Carter 2011 p. 442). These concepts help Jung to deepen the explanation about myth. For Jung, myth is a projection of archetypes and collective unconscious. Their form are universal and identical with every society back into history. Myth can be identical because the original form, the archetypes, is configured to be the same among human's unconscious globally where people's psychic realm encounters certain motifs and typical figures that built into the structure of man’s unconsciousness (Jung Myth Ex. 3-4). According to Edward Tylor and James Frazer, myth and science were contradict where science was factual and myth was not (Segal 2003, p. 48). Therefore, myth has an important role in human nature and modern

“But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we’ll not fail.”-Lady Macbeth (Shakespeare 17).In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth Lady Macbeth was the dominate partner in her marriage. Carl Gustav Jung was the most famous student of Sigmund Freud. Jung was Freud’s favorite son and his successor (Bressler 149). With all successors they move on and Jung became “one of the leading forces in the psychoanalytic movement” (Bressler 149). With him creating his own form of the human psyche which consist of three parts: the personal conscious, personal unconscious, and the collective unconscious. The other part of Jung’s human psyche is the archetype, which is a repetition of human experiences. This also includes the animus, which is the masculine

C.G. (1964). Approaching the unconscious. In C.G. Jung (Eds.), Man and his symbols (pp. 3-94). USA: Dell Publishing.

Carl Gustav Jung II was a psychiatrist whose theories of the mind challenged the existing dogma. His works with human cognition, the basic structure of the psyche, and association experiments are widely known today in the form of the concepts of the introvert and the extrovert, psychological archetypes, and basic tests of word association. Although many basic principles of psychology today are based upon his original discoveries and theories, they were not conceived without external insight. Social, economic, and cultural influences upon Carl Jung greatly affected his lifetime achievements and provided inspiration for many of his theories.

Jung who actually broke away from Freud’s beliefs because they did not fully agree with his own. Ellwood specifically states that, “Jung taught that life is a quest for individuation, that is, for unifying the various constituents of ones mind into harmonious pattern”, individuation particularly pertains to a process of transformation through dreams and imagination. Jung and his followers see traditional religious myth and ritual as a treasure that represents these religious representations. I find Jung’s’ thoughts and opinions to be much more meaningful than the thoughts of Freud, and his ideas for why people lean towards

Jung diverged from Freud because his perception that the unconscious mainly contains repressed memories. Freud had his understanding of these instinctual behaviors, but mostly dismissed the concept as insignificant. Although, Freud did not particularly accept the collective unconscious, Jung developed his theories despite disapproval. Jung explains

This is a structural part of the unconscious that is similar among all people. This similar patterns are grouped and labeled as different archetypes. These archetypes are things like mother, god, artist, child etc. These common ideals make of the lower level of the unconscious. So, overall Jung’s unconscious model starts with the ego and the conscious thoughts and then leads into the unconscious which is the personal and then the collective. But there is another subset of Jung's ideas that influences the unconscious; the