Even today Jung remains a relatively neglected figure, both for intellectual historians and among practicing clinicians. For all those who have identified with Freud's side in the multiple controversies with which his name is associated, no figure is as odious as Carl G. Jung. This rancor can only partly be explained by the fact that Freud, in his “On the History of the Psycho-analytic Movement” (1914), chose early on to put his special version of events into the history books. Jung, who like Alfred Adler had also been attacked by Freud, did not reply at the time, and the relative silence of both men about what had gone wrong with Freud left the battlefield to a foe who was a superb polemicist.

There is plenty of evidence about how Freud in 1913 had mourned the loss of Jung and even indications that Freud later understood how he himself partly shared the responsibility for