c/carl-jung
Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist, psychotherapist, and psychologist who founded the school of analytical psychology.
Karl Gustav Jung, born in 1875 with Freud, One of the founding fathers of modern psychology, still working at 84. He is the most honored living psychiatrist and history will record him as one of the greatest physicians of all time. Professor Jung how many…
…was just as if suddenly two streams were joining. And how long was it after you took that decision that you first came in contact with Freud? Oh you know that was at the end of my studies and then it took quite a while until I met Freud. You see I…
…in contact with Freud? Oh you know that was at the end of my studies and then it took quite a while until I met Freud. You see I finished my studies in 1900 and I met Freud only very much later. In 1900 I already read his three minute interpretation…
…studies and then it took quite a while until I met Freud. You see I finished my studies in 1900 and I met Freud only very much later. In 1900 I already read his three minute interpretation and Freud's studies about hysteria, but that was merely…
…penetrating conversation was followed by personal friendship. Oh yes, it soon developed into a personal friendship. And what sort of man was Freud? Well he was a complicated nature you know, I liked him very much but I soon discovered that when he had…
…he had no philosophical education particularly. You see I was studying Kant and I was steeped in it and that was far from Freud. So from the very beginning there was a discrepancy. Did you in fact grow apart later, partly because of a difference in…
…doing it in this way and other people are doing it in other typical way, and there were such differences between myself and Freud too. Do you consider that Freud's Standard of proof and experimentation was less high than your own? Well you see that is…
…I am not my own history or my historiographer. In reference to certain results, I think my method has its merits. Tell tell me, did Freud himself ever analyze you? Oh yes I had submitted quite a lot of my dreams to him and so did he and he to you.…
…then which perhaps is also indiscreet: is it true that you have a very large number of letters which you exchanged with Freud which are still unpublished? Yes when are they going to be published? Well not during my lifetime. You would have no objection…
…but I wouldn't care to publish them. Well now can we move on to the time when you did eventually part company with Freud? It was partly I think with the publication of your book the psychology of the unconscious is that correct? That was the real…
…an immense age. Was it not partly your observation, your clinical observation of psychotic cases which led you to differ from Freud on this? It was partially my experience with schizophrenic patients that led me to the idea of certain general historical…
…a result of some particular clinical experience? Less so it was a very personal reason namely to do justice to the psychology of Freud, also to that of Adler, and to find my own bearings. That helped me to understand why Freud developed such a theory or…
…to the psychology of Freud, also to that of Adler, and to find my own bearings. That helped me to understand why Freud developed such a theory or why Adler developed his theory, his power principle. Have you concluded what psychological type you are…