A Lecture given by Angela Maffeo before the Boston Chapter of Psychological Type
The College Club, 44 Commonwealth Avenue, Boston, Massachusetts
My first reaction after I agreed to research and present this program was "what fun." I knew instantly that it would be an intellectual banquet for me and I would love the process, and, I did. I spent an entire year reading endlessly about both Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung and I can assure you it was a joy to be in their company for an entire year.
It probably won't surprise you to know that I have revised this intial reaction often during this past month.
I took a class at Harvard called the History and Idea of Harvard back in 1994. It was taught by the Reverance Peter Gomes - a renowned orator. In that class he advised his students to "...always say alot about a little." Unfortunately, as I prepared this lecture I found it impossible to follow his adivce. Instead, tonite, I am going to say a little about a lot -- and it has been quite a challenge.
As I prepared this lecture I felt it would necessary to tell some parts of Freud's and Jung's story. I've concentrated on Freud's discovery period and on Jung's childhood because those times seemed to shed the most light on their personalities.
A word about the title: Freud and Jung Differing. It was inspired from a quote used by Isabel Briggs Myers in the opening pages of her book Gifts Differing. It felt so appropriate. After all Jung's reason for writing Psychological Types was to explain what he viewed were the gifts differing between himself, Sigmund Freud, and Alfred Adler. The quote reads:
For as we have many members in one body,
and all members have not the same office:
So we, being many, are one body...
and every one members one of another.
Having then gifts differing...
Romans 12:4-8
Finally, I'd like to add that the genesis of this program sprung from a conversation I had in Boston during the winter of 1997 with Lisle Baker, a professor from Suffolk Law School. Lisle wanted the Boston Chapter for Psychological Type to offer a program that addressed the reasons behind the disparate academic standings of Freud and Jung. Since I had personally experienced this phenomenon up close and very personal while studying at Harvard University, just a few years back, I agreed to do this program. 
