Jung vs Freud: what drives the mind?

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SIGMUND FREUD vs CARL JUNG go head to head — and every jab is rooted in real history.

SIGMUND FREUD

Beneath every dream and slip of the tongue lies desire, Carl—repressed, primal, and usually about what you'd rather not admit.

CARL JUNG

You reduce the whole soul to appetite, Sigmund; but the psyche also reaches upward, toward myth, meaning, and a wisdom older than any childhood.

SIGMUND FREUD

Your 'collective unconscious' is a lovely cathedral built on sand—I offer a method, you offer mysticism dressed as science.

CARL JUNG

Better a cathedral than a couch where every longing is caged as sin; the mind you dissect, I dare to let grow.

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