Sigmund Freud, known for his controversial views in the field of psychology, had many other psychologists wanting to follow in his footsteps. One of these eager beings was Carl Jung. Carl Jung (1875-1961) was a Swiss psychiatrist and colleague of Sigmund Freud's. The two worked together for many years, even maintained a friendship, but when Jung's revolutionary work on the subject of the unconscious disagreed with the Freudian emphasis on sexual trauma, the two separated and went their own ways. Sigmund Freud was Carl Jung's greatest influence. Despite the fact that he came to part company with Freud in later years, Freud had a distinct and profound influence on Carl Jung's psychoanalytic perspectives, as well as many others.Carl Jung is one of the most respected and recognized psychologists of all time. His emphasis in the field in psychology had to do with dreams. When it came to the study of dreams, Freud and Jung had some different ideas. Freud had ideas saying that dreams were all about sex. No matter what the dream was, he could relate it to a sexual feeling or fantasy. Jung had other ideas; he looked past the idea of sex controlling our lives, and believed that dreams were a tool to help us grow, not just to release extreme sexual desires. Jung felt that dreams were more than about sex, they were about life. Jung said that sexual drive doesn't even motivate us as much as the fear of death. Carl Jung was a great psychologist and psychiatrist that changed the ways of psychology today.Jungian psychology is based on psychic totality and psychic energism; he postulated two dimensions in the unconscious--the personal and the archetypes of a collective unconscious. He developed the concepts of extroversion and introversion for the study of personality types. He is also accredited for the theory of synchronicity, the coincidence of causally unrelated events having identical or similar meaning. To Jung, the most important and lifelong task imposed upon any person is fulfillment through the process of individuation, achievement of harmony of conscious and unconscious, which makes a person one and whole.Jung was an inspiration to all in the psychology field. His theories are instrumental in psychology and psychiatry fields today. He was a brilliant man not afraid to stand on his own for what he believed in.
