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The subject of this paper is the self—the central concept of Jung's psychology which formed in Jung's mind as the result of a serious psychic crisis he suffered for several years after the break with Freud in 1913. The paper mentions that Ellenberger interpreted these years as Jung's creative illness and saw them as a parallel to Freud's crisis during the time of his self analysis.
Jung himself described that period as a confrontation with the unconscious from which emerged all further aspects of his psychology, leading to his definition of ego