FREUD AND JUNGCOMING TOGETHER AND COMING APART1906 - 1913 This was compiled by Angela Maffeo for a lecture at the Boston Chapter for Psychological Type delivered on on February 28, 1988Freud and Jung came together because Freud was doing pioneering work on both unconscious repression and dreams -- work that also intrigued Jung.Jung's work also evidenced data that informed these same ideas so he sent Freud two of his works, in 1906, which supported Freud's theories: the first was Jung's important work on Association Studies that produced empirical evidence on Freud's theory of repression.Jung intuited that Psychoanalysis could be a powerful force for social change because it promised a better existence for those would could be successfully analyzed.Jung recognized that Freud's theory shifted emphasis from hereditary biological causes of mental illness to psychodynamic ones.They met for the first time in 1907. Jung talked in a torrent of words for the first three hours while Freud listened. Then Freud suggested they organize their conversation into a list of topics they wanted to cover. They then proceeded to talk non-stop for the next ten hours.When they met, Freud was fifty-one years old. He had founded Psychoanalysis when he was forty years old. Jung was thirty-two at their first meeting.Jung was said to have had a father complex. His own father died when he was only twenty. Jung viewed his father as having failed in both his personal and professional life.Freud was the opposite of Jung's father.They would have an intensely close relationship until they broke in 1913.Parting would be an intense heartbreak for both men.The break in their relationship caused Jung to have a breakdown that would eventually lead to his self-analysis. He was thirty-eight when they ended their relationship.Freud had his own archetypal self-analysis at forty, when his father died.Jung's loss of Freud was like the loss of a father.Freud had a long history of intense relationships with at least two other men. It was said about Freud that he always needed a male muse with whom he could share his emotional and intellectual experiences. There had been a succession of intense friendships that followed the pattern of first, burning brightly, then dwindling, and finally, just as they were about to die, turning to enmity.Freud claimed that the source of these experiences was his young nepthew and playmate -- a constant playmate until the end of his third year. He was a year older than Freud. They had been inseparable and loved and fought each other intensely. Freud said: "This childish relationship has determined all my later feelings in my interecourse with eprsons of my own age."Jung's relationship would be the strongest and the one with the greatest libidinal overtones.It was thought that transference based on a rather complex combination of factors was certaintly involved in Freud's feeling for Jung. He was at one point emotionally so involved that he came very close to turning over the entire psychoanalytic movement over to Jung's guardianship.In terms of Jung's personality, some have theorized that Jung became an ardent Freudian and his No. personality (persona) deferred to Freud, the father-like authority, who appeared to know the "truth." 