ABSTRACT
Perhaps precisely the fact that their influence in the natural sciences is on the wane, while their influence in general culture is still very high, is one reason for the ongoing controversies. While ‘science’ wants to show that Freud and Jung are outdated and essentially unscientific, people continue to be stubbornly interested in, and fascinated by, their views. Their terms and concepts have become part of our everyday language and have become entries in dictionaries, if often in garbled or misunderstood form. The most devastating criticism voiced against Jung from the Freudians, from the beginning, was probably not that he did not accept the theory of the sexual etiology of the neuroses or the drive theory in general. There are some parallels between Jung’s criticism and that of the so-called neo-psychoanalysts, such as Harry St. Sullivan, Erich Fromm, Karen Horney, Clara Thompson, or Frieda Fromm-Reichmann, who, like Jung, acknowledged the importance of these mechanisms, but dismissed the drive theory.
