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William Todd Schultz is Professor of Psychology at Pacific University in Oregon and edited the Handbook of Psychobiography (Oxford University Press 2005). See full bio

May 21, 2009, Personality

Comments on "Why Freud and Jung Broke Up: Part II"

Why Freud and Jung Broke Up: Part II

By William Todd Schultz on May 21, 2009 in Genius and Madness

Fellow blogger Dr. Stephen A. Diamond objects to my recent post titled "Why Freud and Jung Broke Up," calling it "an overly simplistic and fundamentally flawed Freudian interpretation" revolving around "repressed" homosexuality. That's a pretty thorough indictment, to say the least! Read More

Response to Professor Schultz

Submitted by Dr. Stephen A. Diamond, Ph.D. on May 21, 2009 - 9:28am.

Please don't take my posting as an "indictment" of yours, or even an "objection," but rather as my offering a different opinion about and interpretation of the available information. And as an effort to help our readers get more involved intellectually with psychotherapy and the fascinating daimonic genius of its two greatest founders.

Thanks, ditto

Submitted by William Todd Schultz on May 21, 2009 - 9:34am.

I don't. Thank you. My goal is the same: just to engage what I consider an extremely interesting discussion about these two giant figures in the history of psychology... And I found your initial reply to my post to be an enormously helpful and carefully thought-through addition to what I had to say. Hopefully readers will be moved to explore the topic in more detail. A good place to begin would probably be the Freud/Jung Letters...

Thank you both for your

Submitted by Jonathan Horn on May 21, 2009 - 11:14am.

Thank you both for your observations about the matter. You both presented facets of the Freud/Jungian relationship that I had previously been unaware of, and you have both given me much to think about as I start exploring the work of both thinkers in more depth. Please keep up the excellent posts.