ABSTRACT
The predominance of psychoanalysis and behaviorist thinking in psychology for most of the twentieth century consigned Jung’s theories to the fringes of psychology. Though often seen, inaccurately, as a disciple of Freud, Jung was well on the way to developing his own psychology of the unconscious before meeting Freud in 1907, a psychology that Jung continued to refine for nearly fifty years following his formal break with Freud in 1912. The concept responsible in part for their break-Jung’s notion of a collective unconscious, common to all human beings, organized into typical patterns of psychological experience that he called archetypes-remains his best-known theoretical contribution, and Jung consistently refused to place sexuality at the center of psychological development, insisting on psychological growth as a life-long process, not one ending with childhood.
