Fred And Jung Comparison

Fred and Jung's Differing Views Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung are two of the founding fathers of psychoanalysis, their contributions are what lead to the modern psychoanalytic movement and popularized the field of psychology. Their friendship started in 1906, Freud was an esteemed colleague and Jung was younger and more of a student or follower to Freud. As time went on their theories began to have some major differences and Jung branched out to form his own views. Major points that these two psychoanalysts disagreed upon was their view of the unconscious mind as well as how they viewed sexuality's role as a driving force behind life. Jung and Freud had a long history of sharing their ideas and theories with one another. In 1906 Jung sent

Jung believed that Freud's view of the unconscious was too limited and Freud felt Jung dismissed some of his fundamental psychoanalytic tenets. Freud "depicted the unconscious as a receptacle underlying the conscious mind, whose task is to contain rejected and un-encountered events, feelings, thoughts and experiences of the resenting conscious mind." While Jung theorized that there is "a personal unconscious, right under the conscious mind, taking in personal psychic contents and down below the collective unconscious, containing the accumulating experience of all humanity." Freud believed that the unconscious contained repressed thoughts, images, experiences, some of which could be traumatic. He believed that repressing these thoughts, images and experiences led to neuroses. By working through what has been repressed into the unconscious he believed that there would be catharsis and a possibility of getting past these neuroses. Freud believed that the human mind had three structures, the id, the ego, and the super-ego. To Freud the Id was related to unconscious drives which to him was mainly sex, the id does not care about morality but just instinctual desires. The ego deals with what is conscious, it is organized and helps us deal with reality. The super-ego in a way controls the Id and controls drives through socially appropriate

Freud was originally raised Jewish, he eventually became an atheist and did not believe religion should be propagated. He referred to religion as opiate for the masses, he believed it was an unscientific false belief. Freud's view of religion was similar to that of Karl Max, he believed that religion was a fallacy and a means to escape reality. Jung was raised in the Swiss Reformed Church and his father was a pastor. Jung saw religion as an important art of individuation and exploring and accepting the different part's of one's self. Jung believed that religion offered a common communication between humans. He was interested in looking at religions through an archetypal