ATTITUDES TOWARD THE UNCONSCIOUS - RESPONSE

This paper briefly describes the history of the professional interacti on between psychoanalysts and analytical psychologists in the United S tates. There has been little public contact between the two groups sin ce the personal feud between Freud and Jung has been carried forth to the present generation of analysts. The relationship between Otto Rank and Freud and his circle demonstrated many of the same dynamics that were activated between Freud and Jung, who had broken off their relati onship ten years earlier; this paper highlights the similarities betwe en Jung's, then Rank's, exile from the psychoanalytic group. Jung's in terest in spiritual matters, including his interest in the nature of r eligious experience, and his questionable dealing with the Nazis durin g the 1930s have been the stated reason for the taboo set against Jung 's writings. Presently there seems to be a growing realization that th ere are large areas of mutual interest, and both the similarities and differences between the schools need further exploration.