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Though
Jung's analytical psychology derives from Freud's psychoanalysis,
there was strife, disagreement and disappointment shared between
these two great thinkers, resulting in a rift between once great
friends. Some key differences are presented below:
| 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. |
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JUNG
postulated two layers of the unconscious - 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. |
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to FREUD
the force
of life is driven by sexuality and the underlying unconscious
contains nothing but feelings, thoughts experience and frustrations
of resulting unfulfilled sexual desires; hence the unconscious
is a bag full of pathology and in fact, so is life in general. |
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There
is much more to life than sexuality, which is but a part of
a greater wholeness, which underlies the process of
Individuation and constant search for meaning,
according to JUNG. The
unconscious has a compensatory regulating function, aiming
at healing, growth and individuation. |
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| For
FREUD,
a disturbance to the psychic balance is a pathology
stemming from an unresolved sexual conflict, a complex
surrounding the person's sexual energy (libido). |
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For
JUNG it is not necessarily
a pathology, but rather a compensatory and regulatory
inclination of the unconscious to strive and resolve the unbalanced
equilibrium of the psyche as a whole. |
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Although
there is much divergence between the Master (Freud) and his
ex-devotee (Jung), there is much in common too. One may sometimes
refer to psychoanalysis as "materialistic" and reductive,
while taking Jung to be the "spiritualistic" and holistic.
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