Carl Jung, Alfred Adler and Sigmund Freud Are Psychologist

Carl Jung, Alfred Adler and Sigmund Freud are Psychologist who have their own views and theories. These theories can be compared and contrasted and some may not believe in what the men have concluded in their theories.

Carl Jung

Jung's human personality theory was based on his belief that the human brain has an undeniable religious nature (Malamud, 1923). He believed that dreams contained important insight into people's mind and theorized that for people to become whole, they must be taught to integrate the unconscious with the conscious mind in a process he called individuation (Malamud, 1923). This process was at the center of his analytical psychology (Malamud, 1923).

Alfred Adler

Alder's Individual Psychology thought that the basic psychological element of neurosis was a sense of inferiority and that individuals suffering with symptoms of this phenomenon spent their lives trying to overcome the feelings without ever being in touch with reality (White, 1917). He believed that if neurotic symptoms began in childhood, some of the adult behavior would continue to reflect the age at which the individual stopped developing (White, 1917).

Sigmund Freud

Sigmund Freud beliefs were argued at times and were considered shocking. Sigmund Freud viewed the entire human psyche from a sexual perspective (Freud, 1911). He theorized that the human mind had three basic components: the id, the ego, and the superego, and these individual parts often conflict, shaping personality and if not treated, causing neurosis (Putnam, 1917). He believed there were two basic conflicting drives in a person, the life drive and the death drive (Putnam, 1917). The life drive supports survival by avoiding uncomfortable and life-threatening situations while the death drive exists simultaneously with a penchant toward extreme pleasure that Freud thought lead to death (Putnam, 1917).

Comparing and Contrast

Now that these theories are explained you can compare and contrast them. Jung's differed from Freud's in that he believed that dreams can disclose other messages besides aggression and sexuality. Jung believed dreams also revealed archetypical material, creativity and a drive toward individualization. Freud and Jung believed that dreams had a meaning; Alder believed that dreams told how a person was living. Dreams reveal material from either the personal unconscious or the collective unconscious, the source of archetypes. Jung's approach to dream interpretation involved amplification, the process of asking the dreamer to focus on various symbols in the dream and provide as many associations as possible about the particular symbol; whereas Freud used free association to have the dreamer create a chain of associations, beginning with the dream symbol. Dream symbols could represent an actual person in the dreamer's life or a part of his or her mind. Amplification includes exploration of feelings connected to dream images, cultural meanings of dream images, and possible archetypal meanings of the dream images such as the mandala representing the archetype of the self. Jung also encouraged the dreamer to use active imagination, reliving the dream and allowing it to continue in conscious imagination.

Agreeable and Disagreeable

There are also things that are agreeable and disagreeable in my eyes. I feel that there is power in the dreams that people have. Sometimes a dream can be about something that you saw or heard. In that case I do not feel that the dream is a message. I feel it has something to do with how you feel about what you