Both Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung are credited with the discovery of the unconscious.

Initially, it was Freud who first spied the unconscious at work in dreams and mistakes in memory, actions and speech (aka ‘Freudian slips’).

Later, Jung confirmed Freud’s theory with the hard evidence of his word association experiments.

Given their common interest, Freud and Jung, as well as Alfred Adler, entered into an extensive collaboration, before parting ways due to the differences of their respective psychological models.

For Freud, the critical force at play within the psyche was the sex drive. Adler could not agree on this point and left the group so that he could focus on his 'power drive' instead.

Freud’s understanding of the unconscious was that it was an offshoot of consciousness. The unconscious was comprised of that which had been rejected from consciousness.

Jung, however, the unconscious was not a waste bin of consciousness but a creative matrix from which a new consciousness would emerge. Given this crucial difference, Jung also left Freud's Viennese circle.

In this class, we will contrast the various psychological models of Freud, Adler and Jung.

Topics will include:

• Freud’s concepts of the ego, unconscious, and the superego,
• Adler's power drive and inferiority complex
• Jung’s concepts of the Self, the shadow and typology.