Freud And Jung Comparison Essay

According to Nikula (n. d.), Freud’s and Jung’s initially very promising co-operation started to show too many cracks, and became its definite end in January, 1913. Before the departure of Jung, they agreed and disagreed with variety of theoretical views, Jung trying to improve Freud’s theory. One of the things that Freud and Jung had disagreements was libido, as Jung didn’t believe that libido is mainly sexual energy as Freud did. Instead, Jung broaden the theory of libido for more generalized and undistinguished life energy as mentioned before in this text. Freud believed that the id is an inherited component of personality, and other parts are learned in early childhood (especially through sexual experiences in psychosexual development stages) that all together determine our adult personality. Jung agreed with Freud that personality could be partly inborn, and partly determined by childhood experiences, but didn’t share Freud’s idea that they completely shape our adult personality. Instead, as stated in Schultz & Schultz (2004), Jung believed that personality is more affected by midlife experiences, around which he developed the theory of midlife crisis that has been supported by extensive research and is seen today as a part of the essential phase of personality development. As …show more content…
After Jung departed, he started to develop his theory more versatile, spiritual, and even mystic, while Freud’s theory remained ordinary and simple. As an overall, I could say that Jung hasn’t been as successful as Freud, as Freud’s psychoanalytic approach has been in wider use than Jung’s analytic psychology approach. Freudian and Jungian theories may attract different type of people that can be derived from the note by Nagari (n. d.) “One may sometimes refer to psychoanalysis as "materialistic" and reductive, while taking Jung to be the "spiritualistic" and holistic”