Sigmund Freud Jung Research Paper

In 1909, the friendship began to rupture, as Jung was developing his own ideas, he started to disagree with several of Freud’s theories. The main disagreement however, was the emphasis on libido and sexual repression. According to Freud, the human psyche is divided into three different parts; the id, ego, and the superego. Each one of these personalities are developed throughout the years, and are influenced heavily by our childhood. The id is responsible for our repressed memories and sexual fantasies, the ego is the moral part that allow us to behave normally and according to our society, it also serves as a mediator between the id and the superego. The superego is the overly moral part of ourselves, it is the part that shames us whenever

According to Jung in his book “The Collective Unconscious and its Archetypes”, the ego is the conscious part of the human psyche, and it mostly identifies with one’s individual experience. The unconscious or the personal unconscious is the part of the human psyche that holds the repressed memories, fantasies, and experiences from the conscious mind. (Jung, 1969). Those repressed memories and fantasies are called “complexes” or patterns of connected ideas and emotions that are hidden away into the unconsciousness (Encyclopedia of Philosophy, 2006). Not only does the personal unconscious holds the repressed memories but it also holds the aspects of one’s personality that were rejected by the individual (Jung, 1969). The collective unconscious is what Jung has been most known for; Jung claims that the collective unconscious is that “the contents of the collective unconscious have never been in consciousness…” (Jung, 1969). In other words, the collective unconscious is not consisted of memories or fantasies that once had happened and one decided to repress them, it is not about one’s experience the collective unconscious contains universal “inherited