Analytical psychology, founded by Carl Jung after his 1912 break from Freud, replaces sexual instinct with the collective unconscious as personality's central organizing force. It investigates how archetypal patterns manifest across cultures, drawing on dream material, mythology, symbolism and Jung's concept of synchronicity, and diversified into classical, developmental and archetypal schools of Jungian thought.
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Central QuestionHow do universal unconscious patterns, archetypes, shape human experience across cultures, and how does a person achieve individuation, psychological wholeness? 1 Founded Year Connections
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Jung broke with Freud in 1913 over the nature of the libido, founding analytical psychology as a distinct school rather than a variant of psychoanalysis.
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Jung had already termed his approach analytical psychology (1912)
Introduction
Analytical psychology (German: analytische Psychologie, sometimes translated as analytic psychology; also Jungian analysis) is a term referring to the psychological practices of Carl Jung.
Associated With: Psychoanalysis, The break with Freud section
In particular, tensions manifested between him and Freud because of various disagreements, including those concerning the nature of the libido.
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