Two Essays on Analytical Psychology

This book forms the link between the two crowning achievements of Jung's middle period, The Psychology of the Unconscious and Psychological Types.

"In The Psychology of the Unconscious Jung clarifies his disagreement with Freud and Adler. He agrees with Freud that dream analysis is the via regia to the Unconscious, but he interprets dreams differently. Where Freud finds inversion and displacement in dreams, Jung holds that 'the dream is what it pretends to be, neither more nor less'. Against Freud's belief that all neuroses originate in sexuality, and Adler's belief that all neuroses originate in the will to power, Jung argues that some cases originate in the one, and some in the other, and many in neither. His distinctive discovery (or invention) is the collective Unconscious. While he agrees that psychological health is a matter of harmony between the Conscious and the Unconscious within an individual, Jung maintains that a man's Unconscious is not entirely his own, but also contains impersonal, collective components in the form of inherited 'categories' or 'archetypes'. These 'archetypes' embody the primordial images which have dwelt in the minds of men since the beginnings of history."