ABSTRACT
This chapter considers the groups that formed around Freud and Jung from about 1902 and examines how their cultures evolved in relation to the work each group did. Ellenberger characterised the two group cultures as follows: In Vienna, men such as Kraft-Ebing, Weininger, and Schnitzler had conditioned the public to accept Freud's sexual theories. In Zurich, another type of genius loci caused psychoanalysis to be accepted as a key to religious and educational problems, and to the understanding of myths and psychosis. Two group cultures have been described, exhibiting clear differences in organisational dynamics. The first contacts between the two groups began with a correspondence initiated by Jung with Freud in April 1906. In 1910, resulting from the contact between the two groups, the International Psychoanalytic Association (IPA) emerged – mutually created, but based in Vienna. Different cultural attitudes arise partly from divergent working conditions and the nature of the patients each group served.
