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This paper presents an attempt to discover some possible unconscious motives in Jung's initiation and pursuit of his personal relationship with Freud. The major source of material for analytic consideration is a dream of Jung's from the year 1905 which he published anonymously in his book The Psychology of Dementia Praecox. Its exploration leads to the conclusion that Jung was troubled at the time by anxiety over a threatened loss of ego control. The immediate cause seemed to be the turmoil generated by his emotional involvement with his patient Sabina Spielrein. The imagery of the dream points to Jung's identification with Nietzsche and the reactivation
of a long-standing fear that he might share Nietzsche's fate of a mental breakdown. Therefore, the idea that Jung, at least unconsciously, reached out to Freud for psychoanalytic help becomes plausible. It is also suggested that the identification with Nietzsche and his two passionate relationships with Lou Salomé and Richard Wagner may have been re-enacted in Jung's encounters with Spielrein and Freud.