Freud

Such designations were for Freud too close to the occult for comfort. To him they represented a regression from the science of psychoanalysis back to what had already been known by Janet, Charcot and the early Mesmerists

Kalsched argues that Freud's scientific commitments led him to reject the mythic and occult dimensions of severe trauma that Jung would later embrace, marking the theoretical fault-line that produced their irrevocable split.

Kalsched, Donald, The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defences of the Personal Spirit, 1996thesis

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Jung was not a pupil of Freud's who defected, as has often been erroneously reported, but that he had already developed the basic features of his own life-work before his meeting with Freud.

Von Franz insists that Jung's independent theoretical foundations predate his Freudian alliance, contesting the standard narrative of discipleship and deviation.

von Franz, Marie-Louise, C.G. Jung: His Myth in Our Time, 1975thesis

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His brilliant ideas were usually based on only a single case, like illuminations as it were, which dazzled and amazed... it was only adoration and not independent judgment that made me follow him.

Ferenczi's diary enacts the painful dissolution of filial idealization, exposing the authoritarian dynamics embedded in Freud's theoretical and interpersonal style.

Ferenczi, Sándor, The Clinical Diary of Sándor Ferenczi, 1932thesis

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Freud postulated the latent wish fulfillment function of dreams, formulated the distinction between primary and secondary mental processes, and developed his views on the sexual etiology of neurosis, the existence of infantile eroticism

Tarnas charts the concentrated burst of Freud's foundational theoretical innovations in the mid-1890s, contextualizing them within an astrological framework of Promethean intellectual awakening.

Richard Tarnas, Prometheus the Awakener: An Essay on the Archetypal Meaning of the Planet Uranus, 1995thesis

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Jung, however, differs from Freud and Bleuler. For them, rational, reifying, or thing-oriented language, even if a derivative and secondary process, was still the preferable 'way of truth.'

Hillman locates the core epistemological divergence between Jung and Freud in their respective valuations of rational versus mythic language as vehicles of psychological truth.

Hillman, James, The Myth of Analysis: Three Essays in Archetypal Psychology, 1972thesis

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The death instinct he saw as the need for all living organisms actively to seek their own extinction: this was perhaps the one important idea of Freud's that met with definite resistance from the majority of other analysts.

The biographical appreciation traces Freud's postulation of the death instinct (Thanatos) as the culminating and most contested theoretical move of his mature metapsychology.

Freud, Sigmund, Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, 1917thesis

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The spontaneous ideas, feelings, and memories that emerge during free association are, Freud claims, the essential clues to the underlying meaning of the dream.

Bulkeley expounds Freud's method of free association as the technical foundation of dream interpretation, demonstrating its continuing centrality to the field he inaugurated.

Bulkeley, Kelly, An Introduction to the Psychology of Dreaming, 2017thesis

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virtually all modern dream psychologists have derived their basic principles and techniques from Freud's revolutionary work.

Bulkeley affirms Freud's foundational status for the entire discipline of dream psychology, even while acknowledging contemporary critiques of his methods.

Bulkeley, Kelly, An Introduction to the Psychology of Dreaming, 2017supporting

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split with Freud, xi, xv, xvi-xvii, xix, xxiv, xxv, 3–4n3, 160, 186–187n4, 212, 219; research, xii, xix; as patient of Freud, xiii, xxii, xxiii

The Clinical Diary's index systematically maps the intimacy and rupture of Ferenczi's relationship with Freud, documenting it as simultaneously personal, clinical, and theoretical.

Ferenczi, Sándor, The Clinical Diary of Sándor Ferenczi, 1932supporting

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Freud's dream psychology has been immensely important to the painters, in that it has shown that marvels of creativity go on inside ordinary brains every night.

An appreciative commentator traces the cultural reach of Freud's dream psychology into visual art and literature, particularly through the principles of condensation and displacement.

Freud, Sigmund, Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, 1917supporting

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Specific to our theme is Freud's main evidence for female inferiority, which, like Galen's, is argued in terms of comparative anatomy.

Hillman submits Freud's theory of female psychology to feminist critique, identifying its anatomical premise as a rationalization of imaginal bias rather than genuine observation.

Hillman, James, The Myth of Analysis: Three Essays in Archetypal Psychology, 1972supporting

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Despite his willingness, Freud himself would not be able to see through to completion the extraordinarily ambitious work he had begun. Instead he would have to depend on the 'children'

Beebe reads one of Freud's own dreams as a prophetic acknowledgment that the psychoanalytic project would require successor figures to complete what he began.

Beebe, John, Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type: The Reservoir of Consciousness, 2017supporting

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AP as a deviation and resemination of Jung and Freud... JH's oedipal rejection of Jung compared to Jung's of Freud

Russell presents Hillman's relationship to both Freud and Jung as structurally oedipal, with archetypal psychology defined through repeated acts of creative departure from founding authorities.

Russell, Dick, Life and Ideas of James Hillman, 2023supporting

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Freud believed Schliemann's happiness, many years later, upon actually discovering the site of Troy, was based on the fulfillment of a childhood wish, and he was in a similar exuberant state at the time of this dream

Beebe illuminates Freud's self-identification with Schliemann as an archaeologist of the psyche, revealing the wish-fulfillment logic that animated Freud's own relationship to his theoretical discoveries.

Beebe, John, Energies and Patterns in Psychological Type: The Reservoir of Consciousness, 2017supporting

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Freud sought throughout his life and work for a way of integrating his own need for speculative thinking into an acceptable scientific framework. Hence the fascination of Fliess

The appreciation identifies Freud's friendship with Fliess as symptomatic of a constitutive tension in his character between speculative imagination and the legitimating need for scientific respectability.

Freud, Sigmund, Introductory Lectures on Psycho-Analysis, 1917supporting

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Freud 'rejected this entire complex of questions as nonsensical,' and there then occurred a 'catalytic exteriorization phenomenon' which Jung predicted would be repeated the next moment—and it was.

Jung's letters document the parapsychological confrontation with Freud that crystallized the depth of their divergence over the boundaries of legitimate psychological science.

Jung, C. G., Letters Volume 2, 1951-1961, 1975supporting

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Freud's Psycho-Analytic Procedure," 14n; The Future of an Illusion, 335; The Interpretation of Dreams, 14, 17; 25ff, 34, 58

Jung's Psychiatric Studies index catalogues the range of Freudian texts he engaged, demonstrating the systematic breadth of his early scholarly encounter with the Freudian corpus.

Jung, C. G., Collected Works Volume 1: Psychiatric Studies, 1902supporting

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where Freudian psychology begins, his ap[preciation stops]

Jung's review literature records the recurring pattern of German psychiatric resistance that ended precisely at the threshold of Freudian interpretation, marking a disciplinary boundary.

Jung, C.G., Collected Works Volume 18: The Symbolic Life, 1976supporting

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Jung and Adler later left the Association after disagreeing with Freud's theory of the sexual origin of psychological phenomena.

The publisher's biographical preface frames the defection of Jung and Adler as the defining schism in early psychoanalytic history, centered on the sexual etiology thesis.

Freud, Sigmund, The Ego and the Id, 1923aside

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Freud, S. (1955). Beyond the pleasure principle... Freud, S. (1957). On narcissism: An introduction... Freud, S. (1957). The unconscious.

Schore's reference list demonstrates the range of Freudian metapsychological texts — narcissism, the pleasure principle, the unconscious — that neurobiological affect theory continues to engage and reformulate.

Schore, Allan N., Affect Regulation and the Origin of the Self: The Neurobiology of Emotional Development, 1994aside

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Carhart-Harris, R. and free-energy: L., and Friston, a neurobiological K. J. (2010). The account of default-mode, ego-functions Freudian ideas.

Carhart-Harris cites a collaborative paper proposing neurobiological accounts of default-mode ego functions grounded in Freudian concepts, indicating Freud's continuing relevance to neuroscience.

Carhart-Harris, Robin, The Entropic Brain: A Theory of Conscious States Informed by Neuroimaging Research with Psychedelic Drugs, 2014aside

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