HISTORY This Week Freud & Jung: The Original Dream Team
Mar 3, 2025
In this engaging discussion, guests Satya Doyle Byock, a Jungian psychotherapist and author, and George Makari, a psychiatrist and historian, delve into the complex relationship between Freud and Jung. They explore their groundbreaking meeting in 1907, revealing how their theories about the unconscious shaped modern psychology. The conversation highlights the tensions that emerged over differing views on dreams and the collective unconscious, illuminating how their once strong friendship crumbled under philosophical disagreements.
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First Meeting
- Freud and Jung first met in 1907, spending 13 hours discussing psychology.
- Jung, initially impressed, felt Freud dismissed his dissenting views.
Early Psychiatry
- Psychiatry emerged in the late 1800s, initially focusing on physical brain problems.
- Freud's early work followed this anatomical approach, dissecting animal neurons.
Psychoanalysis
- Freud, inspired by hypnosis in Paris, developed psychoanalysis, the "talking cure."
- His method involved patients lying on a couch, using free association to reveal unconscious thoughts.
