Humanistic Psychology: The Mind Exposed Carl Jung is said to be one of the most controversial and most eccentric people in Psychology. He is most known in the field of psychology for different works in the field of Humanistic Psychology itself. He is best known for his dream analysis, the study of the human psyche and the collective unconscious. “He is also known for archetypes. The term “archetype” thus applies only indirectly to the “representations collectives”, since it designates only those psychic contents which have not yet been submitted to conscious elaboration and are therefore an immediate datum of psychic experience”( Jung, 1981, p.5). But first to understand his work you first have to understand the life of Carl Gustav Jung. He …show more content…
She leaves home frequently and it did affect Carl as a young boy. Carl Jung often describes himself as a introverted and solitary child; he was happy most of the time he was happy but when he is left alone he was left alone to his own thoughts of the world and they were not happy. As a child he was diagnosed with epilepsy because of fainting spells in school. At the age of 12 to 13 he was pushed by a fellow student and he lost consciousness; later anytime someone brought up school homework he would have fainting spells. Later on in his life he related these fainting spells to neurosis. Also as a child he would take a wooden ruler and carve figures in them. He hid them in his attic at home and later he wrote his own secret language in them. Carl was an interesting young child and I think that it helped shape him into the person that he is …show more content…
Carl sent Freud a copy of his work, Studies in Word Association (1920). They later met up and started to collaborate on different ideas and theories. This soon came to a hault when Carl started to develop his own theories through the fascination of the mind, and brain. Then he started to become interested in the unconscious mind. He separated himself as a whole and he began to disagree with Freud’s theories on sex as motivation on behavior and also on Freud’s theory of the Oedipus complex. I think that Carl’s childhood played a major role in why he disagreed with some of Freud’s theories. For instance Carl’s mother being depressed and absent from home may have been the reason why he disagreed with Freud’s Oedipus complex