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Research Paper
Freud vs. Jung
Michael Rodriguez
Professor Antonio Delgado
Human Behavior & Literature PSY521-1
January 3, 2018
Table of Contents
Abstract……………………………………………………………………………………………3
Who was Sigmund Freud? …………...……………………………………………………...……4
Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious Mind……………………………………………………….4
Who was Carl Jung?……………………………...….……………………………………………6
Analytic Psychology and Collective Unconsciousness …………………………………………7
Conclusion ………………...…...…………………………………………………………………8
References ……………………...………………………………………………………………..10
Abstract
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology …show more content…
His parents had a strained relationship due to his mother’s melancholic moods and bouts with mental illness, which caused her to be away from the family for long periods of time. As a child, Jung developed certain tendencies and executed rituals that Freud would consider defense mechanisms to deal with the issues of his childhood. One example is Jung’s predisposition to fainting spells after an encounter with a boy at school at the age of 12. After having been pushed by the boy and losing consciousness, Jung would faint whenever he walked to school or began to work on homework. He continued to have these fainting spells until he overheard his father speaking about his son’s ability to care for himself financially as an adult hat caused him to break through his ‘neurosis’ and concur his difficulties with school and school …show more content…
This method of psycho analysis is distinguished by its focus on the role of symbolic experiences in one’s life. Jung believed that although a person’s life experiences has great significance for understanding one’s current circumstances, current situations also contain the key for future growth and development. Like Freud, Jung recognized the importance of early life experiences, and that a person's development is determined by events in early childhood which are often forgotten. Jung believes that all individuals possess a personal conscious which temporarily forgotten information and repressed memories – which can be good or bad. An important aspect of the personal conscious is the complex: a collection of thoughts, feelings, attitudes and memories that are centralized around a single concept. The personal unconscious can be comprised by various complexes.
Where Jung’s views differ from Freud is that Jung theorizes that individuals are also influenced by unconscious factors that lie outside their personal experience, called collective unconscious. Collective unconscious is expressed through 'archetypes', universal thought-forms or mental images that influence an individual's feelings and actions. Jung’s research suggests that archetypes are innate projections within all of us, without exception to race or nationality since the experience of archetypes do not conform to tradition
Research Paper
Freud vs. Jung
Michael Rodriguez
Professor Antonio Delgado
Human Behavior & Literature PSY521-1
January 3, 2018
Table of Contents
Abstract……………………………………………………………………………………………3
Who was Sigmund Freud? …………...……………………………………………………...……4
Psychoanalysis and the Unconscious Mind……………………………………………………….4
Who was Carl Jung?……………………………...….……………………………………………6
Analytic Psychology and Collective Unconsciousness …………………………………………7
Conclusion ………………...…...…………………………………………………………………8
References ……………………...………………………………………………………………..10
Abstract
Sigmund Freud was an Austrian neurologist and the founder of psychoanalysis, a clinical method for treating psychopathology …show more content…
His parents had a strained relationship due to his mother’s melancholic moods and bouts with mental illness, which caused her to be away from the family for long periods of time. As a child, Jung developed certain tendencies and executed rituals that Freud would consider defense mechanisms to deal with the issues of his childhood. One example is Jung’s predisposition to fainting spells after an encounter with a boy at school at the age of 12. After having been pushed by the boy and losing consciousness, Jung would faint whenever he walked to school or began to work on homework. He continued to have these fainting spells until he overheard his father speaking about his son’s ability to care for himself financially as an adult hat caused him to break through his ‘neurosis’ and concur his difficulties with school and school …show more content…
This method of psycho analysis is distinguished by its focus on the role of symbolic experiences in one’s life. Jung believed that although a person’s life experiences has great significance for understanding one’s current circumstances, current situations also contain the key for future growth and development. Like Freud, Jung recognized the importance of early life experiences, and that a person's development is determined by events in early childhood which are often forgotten. Jung believes that all individuals possess a personal conscious which temporarily forgotten information and repressed memories – which can be good or bad. An important aspect of the personal conscious is the complex: a collection of thoughts, feelings, attitudes and memories that are centralized around a single concept. The personal unconscious can be comprised by various complexes.
Where Jung’s views differ from Freud is that Jung theorizes that individuals are also influenced by unconscious factors that lie outside their personal experience, called collective unconscious. Collective unconscious is expressed through 'archetypes', universal thought-forms or mental images that influence an individual's feelings and actions. Jung’s research suggests that archetypes are innate projections within all of us, without exception to race or nationality since the experience of archetypes do not conform to tradition