Jung and the Wilderness July 17, 2008
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Most people have heard of Sigmund Freud, who is valued as the father of modern psychology. Although Victorian in his outlook (he claimed that human behavior could be explained by repressed sexuality) his major contribution was to bring the idea of the unconscious mind in the mainstream. Freud’s work attracted much attention in its time and provided a foundation for the furtherance of the science.
One of Freud’s friends, Carl Jung, has had an even greater impact of the life of the modern. The Swiss psychologist took the idea of the unconscious mind further and said that the libido (in the true sense of the word i.e. life force) lived therein. He believed that if modern man was to retrieve his sense of meaning it was his task to bring aspects of the unconscious to light, as best as he was able.
