Freud vs Jung: is the mind ruled by desire or myth?

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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 one engine, Carl - repressed desire, mostly of the appetite you dare not name.

CARL JUNG

You reduce the whole soul to a nursery quarrel, Sigmund; the psyche is far older than your childhood, threaded with symbols shared by all mankind.

SIGMUND FREUD

Your 'collective unconscious' is mysticism in a lab coat - I hunt the patient's buried wound, not the ghosts of ancestors.

CARL JUNG

And I heal the whole person, while you leave him lying on your couch, forever blaming his mother.

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