Freud Vs Jung

There are many differences between the work of Mr. Sigmund Freud and the work of Carl Jung. Freud’s ideas focused heavily on sexual tendencies and dysfunctions and Jung did not (Benjamin, 124) For instance, their disagreements on matter started with the ideas of the unconscious. Freud thought the unconscious mind was centered on sexuality. He viewed it as a file-cabinet for all hidden sexual desires and tendencies that would began right after birth. Freud thought when an individual did not appropriately express sexual desires and tendencies; one would develop neuroses, which in today’s society would be mental illness (Benjamin, 124) He coined the idea that the mind primarily centers around three structures being the id, ego, and the super ego (Benjamin, 123). The id begins at birth and operates according to the pleasure principle – the here and now
It develops with experience and teachings from parents and other influential sources (Benjamin, 123). Carl Jung, however, had different thoughts about the unconscious. Unlike Freud who split the human psyche into the id, ego and superego, Jung devised the psyche into the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious (Benjamin, 125). The personal unconscious included repressed wished, experiences and motives. The collective unconscious is a term that encompasses all ones experiences and contained what Jung called archetypes. Jung believed archetypes to be behavioral tendencies that are inherited and believed people to be predisposed to such behaviors (Benjamin, 135).

A second difference between Freud and Jung was sexuality. Sexuality was one of the biggest areas of conflict between the two. Freud believed that repressed and expressed sexual desires were the root to everything. He thought the repressed desires were the biggest motivating force behind all behaviors (Benjamin, 124). Freud believe that peoples anxiety were in direct