Disagreements With Freud
Relationship"The relationship between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud began in 1906 when Jung sent Freud a signed copy of his published studies. Unknown to Jung, Freud had already purchased his own copy of the book after hearing how favorably his name figured into the writings. Six months later, Freud sent a collection of his latest published essays to Jung in Zürich. These professional gestures began a series of meetings and correspondences between the two men that lasted for six years. "
―historacle.org Jung and Freud had a relationship that started off as sending each other their signed works. As they became closer, they started to collaborate to create more theories. |
Differing Ideas
"Jung's primary disagreement with Freud stemmed from their differing concepts of the unconscious. Jung saw Freud's theory of the unconscious as incomplete and unnecessarily negative. According to Jung, Freud conceived the unconscious solely as a repository of 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." ―historacle.org
Their relationship started deteriorating when Jung did not agree with Freud's view of the unconscious mind. Freud thinks of the unconscious as a place to store emotional desires, while Jung insists that there is a deeper layer in the unconscious.
Their relationship started deteriorating when Jung did not agree with Freud's view of the unconscious mind. Freud thinks of the unconscious as a place to store emotional desires, while Jung insists that there is a deeper layer in the unconscious.
"Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves." ―Carl Jung
Biggest Conflicts
"One of the biggest areas of conflicts, if not the biggest, between Freud and Jung was their differing views of human motivation. To Freud, repressed and expressed sexuality was everything. He felt it was the biggest motivating force behind behavior...Jung felt that Freud’s attention was too focused upon sex and its impact on behavior. Jung decided that what motivates and influences behavior is a psychic energy or life force, of which sexuality could be only one potential manifestation. " ―harleytherapy.co.uk
"Freud believed the unconscious mind was the epicenter of our repressed thoughts, traumatic memories, and fundamental drives of aggression. He saw it as a storage facility for all hidden sexual desires, resulting in neuroses, or what we would nowadays call mental illness. Jung also divided the human psyche into three parts. But in Jung’s view the unconscious was divided into the ego, the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious. To Jung, the ego is the conscious, the personal unconscious includes memories (both recalled and suppressed) and the collective unconscious holds our experiences as a species or knowledge that we are born with (for example, love at first sight)." ―harleytherapy.co.uk
Freud and Jung had diverging theories on many concepts. Their most pre-eminent conflict dealt with sexuality. Freud believed sexuality was the main factor in human motivation, while Jung conceived sexuality as just an element of the psychic energy that drives people.
"Freud believed the unconscious mind was the epicenter of our repressed thoughts, traumatic memories, and fundamental drives of aggression. He saw it as a storage facility for all hidden sexual desires, resulting in neuroses, or what we would nowadays call mental illness. Jung also divided the human psyche into three parts. But in Jung’s view the unconscious was divided into the ego, the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious. To Jung, the ego is the conscious, the personal unconscious includes memories (both recalled and suppressed) and the collective unconscious holds our experiences as a species or knowledge that we are born with (for example, love at first sight)." ―harleytherapy.co.uk
Freud and Jung had diverging theories on many concepts. Their most pre-eminent conflict dealt with sexuality. Freud believed sexuality was the main factor in human motivation, while Jung conceived sexuality as just an element of the psychic energy that drives people.
"Jung and his early mentor, Sigmund Freud, parted ways when Freud could not value Jung's differing ideas" ―junginoc.org
*Signature of Carl Jung, no date applicable