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Jung was a gifted man who not only found contemporary views limiting but had come to distrust the schooling establishment. In his autobiography, Jung relates the story of an assignment on psychology that he and his classmates had to submit. The professor read all the papers to the class in the order of their merit, but did not read Jung's at all. The professor then told the class that there was one paper that was by far the best, but that it was obviously a forgery. He went on to say that if he could find the book that it was copied from, he would have Jung expelled. This came as a severe blow to Jung - he had worked extremely hard on the paper, and every bit was his own work.

Freud was an encouraging teacher, however, and Jung soon became his prize pupil. They would work closely together for years, but their relationship was destined to end when their differences in opinion could no longer be reconciled.

Jung eventually saw the need to modify certain principles of Psychoanalysis and the two men parted ways, much to the disappointment of Jung.

Their disagreement arose principally over the concept of libido. Freud saw the unconscious as the home of sexual and pleasure impulses that have been repressed since childhood, therefore having nothing to do with the problems of present reality; Jung, however, viewed libido (or impulses) arising from the unconscious as having relevance to both the present and the past.

Jung noted that not all libido is sexual or pleasure orientated in origin; the hunger drive, for example, expresses itself all throughout our lives, and it seems more appropriate to say that it is a survival instinct rather than one devoted to the pursuit of pleasure.

Jung also identified drives in the unconscious that appeared to be pushing us forward to higher levels of consciousness. That an inner force compels us towards completion, or wholeness, Jung found undoubtable. Furthermore, he was convinced that these drives enter our consciousness intermittently to call for change or, more precisely, the continuation of mental evolution.

So, in short, here lies the basic difference between Freud and Jung : one considered the unconscious to be the rubbish-bin of the human mind, with the emerging psychic messages reminding that it has to be emptied once in a while; the other agreed that this is most often the case, but also argued that the unconscious has another side to it that thrusts us forward. From this, Jung came to see the unconscious as our spring of creativity, but Freud would have none of it.

Jung broke from the Psychoanalytical school, though taking many of Freud's ideas and terms with him, to establish what he termed Analytical Psychology, and set to work modifying and expanding the concepts of his former mentor. Today, many wonder how Freud could have remained so dogmatic in the light of what Jung was discovering in his studies. Some of the latter's conclusions are nowadays seen as natural progressions and expansions on Freud's basic concepts. Whatever the reasons, we still have to thank Freud for his immense contribution to medical science. Those who see Freud as a blindman in comparison to Jung should remember that the latter owed much to his mentor.