Unlike Freud, Jung did not believe that a dream is a mask for a meaning already known but deceitfully withheld from the conscious ...mind. In his view, dreams were communication, ideas expressed not always straightforwardly, but in the best way possible within the limits of the medium. Dreaming, in Jung's psychology, is a constructive process.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Freud, Jung thought, had been a great discoverer of facts about the mind, but far too inclined to leave the solid ground of "criti...cal reason and common sense." Freud for his part criticized Jung for being gullible about occult phenomena and infatuated with Oriental religions; he viewed with sardonic and unmitigated skepticism Jung's defense of religious feelings as an integral element in mental health. For Freud, religion was a psychological need projected onto culture, the child's feeling of helplessness surviving in adults, to be analyzed rather than admired.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
... the novel, as a living force, if not as a work of art, owes an incalculable debt to what we call, mistakenly, the new psycholo...gy, to Freud, in his earlier interpretations, and more truly, I think, to Jung.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I suppose I now have the reputation of being an inscrutable dipsomaniac. One woman here originated the rumour that I am extremely ...lazy and will never do or finish anything. (I calculate that I must have spent nearly 20,000 hours in writing Ulysses.) A batch of people in Zurich persuaded themselves that I was gradually going mad and actually endeavoured to induce me to enter a sanatorium where a certain Doctor Jung (the Swiss Tweedledum who is not to be confused with the Viennese Tweedledee, Dr. Freud) amuses himself at the expense (in every sense of the word) of ladies and gentlemen who are troubled with bees in their bonnets.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Like Freud, Jung believes that the human mind contains archaic remnants, residues of the long history and evolution of mankind. In... the unconscious, primordial "universally human images" lie dormant. Those primordial images are the most ancient, universal and "deep" thoughts of mankind. Since they embody feelings as much as thought, they are properly "thought feelings." Where Freud postulates a mass psyche, Jung postulates a collective psyche.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Whereas Freud was for the most part concerned with the morbid effects of unconscious repression, Jung was more interested in the m...anifestations of unconscious expression, first in the dream and eventually in all the more orderly products of religion and art and morals.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
There is a current misconception which sees in Jung an early disciple of Freud who subsequently deserted his master. Nothing could... be more misleading. From the very beginning there were differences of procedure and of outlook that were bound to lead to divergent results. Freud's work is based on a scientific method restricted to the principle of causality: that is to say, it is assumed that everything that happens has an explanation in prior causes, and is merely the result of those causes. The world is a mechanism that can be taken to pieces and we can only understand how it works if we know how to dismantle and reassemble its constituent parts. Jung does not deny this causal principle, but he says it is inadequate to explain all the facts. In his view, we live and work, day by day, according to the principle of directed aim or purpose, as well as by the principle of causality. We are drawn onwards and our actions are significant for a future we cannot foresee, and will only be explicable when the final effect of the impulse becomes evident. In other words, life has a meaning as well as an explanation; a meaning, moreover, that we can never finally discover, for it is being extended all the time by the process of evolution.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
To Freud, the unconscious was primarily regressive; when Jung challenged this view, it seemed to Freud that Jung was in flight fro...m accepting the concept of the unconscious at all. But it could just as well be said that Jung simply had a different conception of the unconscious; Jung had more appreciation of the creative potentials of the unconscious, and saw in the unknown at least as much of life forces as of death forces. The difference in Freud's and Jung's views of the unconscious is reflected in their contrasting attitudes toward fantasy. Freud had felt that he could "lay it down that a happy person never phantasizes, only an unsatisfied one." Jung, on the other hand, wrote: "I have no small opinion of fantasy. To me, it is the maternally creative side of the masculine man ... As Schiller says, man is completely human only when he is at play."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The extrovert and introvert, the realist and idealist, the scientist and philosopher, the man who found himself by refinding his l...ife history and the individual who discovered his being in fantasy, these are the differences between Freud and Jung.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Freud was, in effect, trying to take the mystery out of myth. Once it was decoded as a history of the unconscious, all was explain...ed. As Anthony Storr put it: "he was only happy when he was reducing things to the lowest common factor; and he did regard the unconscious as primarily the repository of bits of oneself that one couldn't accept." A very different way of looking at the psychology of myth was developed by Freud's one-time friend and colleague Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961). The fundamental difference between the two is immediately apparent in Jung's dictum that modern man is faced with "the necessity of rediscovering the life of the spirit." Jung, who was very interested in archaeology and thought of himself as excavating the mind, took myths to represent the inmost thoughts and feelings of the human race, patterns which are the product of inherited brain patterns.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »