Jung’s emphasis on archetypes represents his most radical departure from Freud. Jung has the idea that there is another force, perhaps a third force, apart from parental authority, that can shape a child’s development. In a way he reifies the childish imagination and refers to the dialectical process between imagination and concrete being in terms of archetypes. This makes Jung’s approach much closer to shamanism than Freud’s. Whereas Jung has at least three dimensions to his thinking, Freud’s seems to have only two. Whereas Jung sees the third force in terms of mystical experience, Freud’s theoretical position would seem to default to pathology.
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