Carl Jung was one the most important theorists of the Classical period during the growth and proliferation of dynamic theories of personality (Taylor 2009). Theway the psychoanalytic historians tell it, however, and according to Freud’s official biographer, Ernest Jones, as well as even the most contemporary article in the encyclopedias, is that Jung was astudent and disciple of Freud. Nothing could be further from the truth. Jung himself had said that his Complex Psychology had been in place long before he met Freud (Jung 2009, p. 196). Jung did acknowledge his debt to Freud for introducing him to the symbolism of the hysteric, but Freud was only interested in the content of the image and how that can be traced back to early childhood sexual memories, while Jung wanted to know what function it served in the larger psycho-spiritual life of the person.
In this quest Jung had already gained important clues during the years of his scientific study of the word association test, which he...
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Taylor, E.I. (2012). Analytic Psychology of CarlJung. In: Rieber, R.W. (eds) Encyclopedia of the History of Psychological Theories. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0463-8_17
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