PSY 035 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Carl Jung, Libido, Personal Unconscious
16 Jun 2017
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Carl jung became a physician and immediately focused on the new, growing field of psychology. He knew of freud and became interested in him after reading his famous book about interpreting dreams. They even met in person periodically and helped to analyze each other"s dreams. Jung had a different approach to freud in a lot of aspects of his personality theory. Freud saw the libido as mainly sexual driven energy. Jung saw libido as a creative life force that could contribute to the psychological growth of a person. As a young child, libido would be focused on physical needs, but as an adult aged it could be used to focus on spiritual and philosophical needs and questions. Jung thought the libido was the driving source for personality, which he referred to as the psyche. Jung believed that only a certain amount of libido energy was available and therefore could only be stretched so far.
