ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on Freud's and Jung's variant notions of psychic energy, using Jean Laplanche's reading of Freudian theory to sharpen this focus, and with some digression into other teachings about subtle energies. It aims to present an exploration of the ways in which the differences between Freud and Jung on this issue might be crucially relevant for the understanding of the psyche in these early decades of the twenty-first century. Freud's interest in "free-association", which even to the end of his career he insisted is the sine qua non of his discipline, is precisely with its kinesis. Jung's migration away from somatics toward symbology is most clearly articulated in the writings of the 1930s. The more recently published notes taken from the 1932 seminar on kundalini yoga again focus on the issue of the journey of the soul.
