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In this well-documented paper an account is given of the relationship between Freud and Jung. Both were anxious to conquer the German scientific spirit in favour of psychoanalysis. The ‘love affair’ between the two men lasted for six years; the unresolved mourning process gradually led Jung to reject Freudian theory and eventually scornfully reject it as a ‘Jewish psychology’. The subsequent advent of National Socialism provided a further temptation for Jung to use archetypal theory to underpin Nazi ideology.
The first meeting between the two men led Jung to become extraordinarily active in popularizing psychoanalysis, possibly most spectacularly at the October 1907 congress in Amsterdam. By 1912, nevertheless, the positions of the two had diverged, particularly with regard to the general sexual theory of neurosis, so that Jung came to be excluded by the psychoanalytical committee. The 1906-13 psychoanalytic movement became a bad object for Jung and the jump from here to scientific anti-Semitism is not a long one.
In 1913 Abraham replaced Jung as President of the International Psychoanalytical Society and Jung turned more to England and America where he had experienced so much success. In 1906 there were no German assistants at the Burghölzi, after the war Kate Bügler (1927) and Heyer came to Jung for their analyses. Jung still believed in Freud's prediction: ‘The fate of psychotherapy will be decided in Germany.’ Jung became associated with National Socialism, became Vice-President of the German Medical Society for Psychotherapy in 1928 and described the unconscious as a ‘natural thing’ as opposed to Freud's ‘dangerous monster’.
In 1934 The Truth of the Soul appeared, containing a series of essays written in 1932 and nine papers by Jung and his wife, the other three by German pupils Kranefeldt and Hugo Rosenthal. Freud is discussed in terms of a cultural historical phenomenon or symptom. Kranefeldt even wrote that the days of psychoanalysis were over. This was precis