Carl Jung and Analytical Psychology
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Freud's theory of unconscious motivation, sent a letter to Freud, initiating a 7 ... implicit and explicit theories of personality can be classified into ...
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Carl Jung and Analytical Psychology 3 Carl Jung and Analytical Psychology In 1906 a Swiss psychiatrist by the name of Carl Jung, intrigued with Sigmund Freuds theory of unconscious motivation, sent a letter to Freud, initiating a 7-year correspondence. Jungs own research on the word association test had garnered support for some of Freuds fundamental postulates about the unconscious and Freud invited Jung and his wife to visit him in Vienna. In their initial meeting Freud and Jung met for 13 straight hours. Freud considered Jung, who was 19 years his junior, the son who would succeed him as leader of the psychoanalytic movement and nominated him for the inaugural presidency of the International Psychoanalytic Association. Jung, for his part, perceived Freud as the powerful father figure he never had. Even before Jung assumed his duties as head of the international association, it was apparent that he and Freud held disparate views on the unconscious. B oth men tried to overlook their differences, but the chasm that formed between them soon grew too wide to ignore. The irreconcilable breach that would eventually bring an end to their personal and professional relationship freed Jung to pursue and cultivate his own theory of personality. JUNG, TH E PERSO N Carl Gustav Jung was born in Kesswil, Switzerland, a small village on the shores of Lake Constance, on July 26, 1875. His father, Paul Jung, was a Protestant minister, and his mother, Emilie, was a rather large boned, generally bossy woman who would mumble to herself and act in a manner indicative, at least to Jung, of someone in touch with the spirit world. It should be noted that Jungs older brother, who was born two years before him, died after only a few days; an event that may have made Jungs parents more protective of him than they would have otherwise been had his brother survived. Because Jungs only other sibling, his sister Gertrude, with whom he never formed a close bond, was not born until 1884, he was an only child for the first 9 years of his life. Jung perceived that his parents marriage was unsatisfying to both parties, which both confused and frightened him. W hen he was only 3 years old Jungs mother was hospitalized for depression and 60 Personality Theory in Context he apparently developed a strong attachment to the dark-haired, olive-complected maid who cared for him during his mothers absence. In his autobiography Jung states that this type of girl later became a component of my anima (Jung, 1961, p. 8). After several months in the hospital his mother returned home but Jung never forgave her for what he construed as her willful abandonment of him. Fear of abandonment was a theme that played out repeatedly in Jungs life from childhood to death, leading him to construct a view of women as unreliable. B y all accounts, Jung was a shy and frightened child who harbored ambivalent feelings toward both parents. He viewed his mother as powerful but unreliable and his father as ...
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