Jung and Freud on the Psychology of Possession

Jung and Freud on the Psychology of Possession: Simply put, for both Freud and Jung, a mentally healthy personality is one that develops through the cultivation of these dialogues. A healthy relationship at the intrapersonal level will lead a person to feel appropriately integrated within his or her environment and to experience positive interpersonal relations, and these in turn will reflect back to the person an affirming acknowledgement of self. By contrast, a mentally unstable personality is one that splits off aspects of the mind and isolates these parts from each other, thereby preventing their creative dialogue and disabling the development of personality as a whole. The disagreement between Freud and Jung concerns the dynamic nature of intrapersonal dialogue, and their respective interpretations of this are themselves informed by their different conceptions of the unconscious.