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*Great is the power of Thy truth, and it shall prevail!Great is the power of Thy truth, and it shall prevail!Great is the power of Thy truth, and it shall prevail!Great is the power of Thy truth, and it shall prevail!
Recent publication of their correspondence (McGuire, 1974) may illuminate the reasons for the personal break between Sigmund Freud and Carl Gustav Jung, an event that has remained inexplicable on the basis of the participants' former statements on the matter (Freud, 1914; Jung, 1963; see also Jones, 1955).
In Freud's (1914) rationalist view, Jung's creation of “a new religio-ethical system” was less significant than was the divergent school of Alfred Adler—probably because he had found Jung's latest writings to be “obscure, unintelligible and confused” (p. 60). Although the future may yet prove Freud to have been right on this score, cotemporary historians (cf. Ellenberger, 1970) seem to look upon Jung as much the more influential of the two early dissidents.
Freud's initial estimate of the individual worth of his followers had also favored Jung. In the very midst of Adler's impending defection from