Any value in Freud and Jung?

[Ulax]

@StarStruck I think there's value in both.

[Jodistrict]

Look at the group of Freud’s initial followers.   They all broke from him and started their own psychotherapy, e.g.  Adler, Jung, Reich etc., because they realized his theories were flawed and incomplete.  Freud was trying to construct a model of the mind as a biological machine, which is why sex was important to his theory because it reduced everything to one simple drive rooted in biology.  This model was way to limiting for Jung.  If you want to read something useful from this lineage I would suggest Karen Horney. 

As for Jung, he had an opportunity to meet Ramana Maharshi and he turned it down.  

I don’t find the Western approach of analysis and theory building to be that useful.
 

Edited November 20, 2022 by Jodistrict