Thursday, August 11, 2011
Freud and Jung
I have a book here entitled "Freud and Jung: Years of Friendship, Years of Loss" which grew out of a graduate student's paper at NYU. Freud desperately wanted his methods to live on after him. Freud realized the antiSemitic climate of Europe and hoped that Jung would make a good gentile successor to carry on. Jung and Freud sharply disagreed on a few things. Freud was an atheist who married an observant Orthodox Jewess and then forbade her to practice (this is my understanding.) Jung said something SO PROFOUND - Jung said (paraphrasing from memory) that "If a person does not solve the issues of spirituality by midlife then severe psychopathology is inevitable."