ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author shows some of the reasons that had impelled her at the time to choose the Jungian school. Looking at the developments that have taken place in the Freudian and Jungian schools brings to mind a quotation from Sigmund Freud picked up by Mircea Eliade: that Carl Gustav Jung started out as a brilliant scholar, and finished up as a prophet. It is quite clear that the concept of the unconscious, which Jung, originally inspired by Freud, had formulated and developed, was a result of his work with psychotic patients. Jung paid much attention to the study of the positive effects of the relationship between the conscious and the unconscious. Melanie Klein put forward the hypothesis that there are ‘unconscious phantasies’, that they existed from the very beginning of life, and that each instinct is associated with a specific unconscious phantasy which represents the goal of that instinct.
