Comparing Sigmund Freud And Jung's Self

Sigmund Freud a person with many titles under his belt focused mainly on an individual’s unconscious state of mind. Freud was a psychologist, physiologist and medical doctor. He created and lived by psychoanalysis. He believed people live the events of their unconscious on a daily basis. Carl Jung the founder of analytical psychology, which is the study of psychoanalytic and individual psyche; similarly to Freud, Jung studies mainly focuses on the unconscious. Their beliefs and ideas of what someone’s unconscious consist of overlap. In the article entitled Freud’s id and Jung’s self as aids in self-analysis the two men theories are compared specifically Jung’s theory of the self in comparison with Freud self analysis. Although Freud was well known for …show more content…
Slowly but surely as elaborated in the article, when trying to recall a dream the longer you have been awake the less likely you are to vividly recall the events. It is also mentioned, pieces of the dream that you try to put together during recall is a representation of the thoughts and the reality of the ego. This stage is considered to be a creative process. Another concept this article covers is concentrated reflection and collection of material objects in retrospect to the nature of our memory. The author wondered what affect those two systems have on our memory. The article suggests that we live between perceiving, recollecting, forgetting, finding along with losing. The author expresses, even when we think we have suppressed our deepest darkest unpleasant memories, they still dwell in the unconscious or the id and can creep into our waking life (the conscious or ego) during certain phases of our lives. Additionally, while continuing to address the thoughts and emotions behind the conscious and unconscious the author introduces another term Freud created called the