Jung vs Freud: what lies at the bottom of the mind?

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

CARL JUNG

Beneath your private repressions, Sigmund, lies a deeper sea we all share - myths, symbols, the collective inheritance of the whole human race.

SIGMUND FREUD

Poetry, Carl. Look closer and every myth resolves into what it always was: a child's desire, a father's shadow, a wish dressed in costume.

CARL JUNG

You reduce the soul to a single appetite - but the dream is not only a hidden wish, it is a compass pointing toward who a man must still become.

SIGMUND FREUD

A compass invented by the dreamer to avoid the truth; I never claimed the mind was pretty, Carl - only that it is honest once you stop flattering it.

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