In June 2023, he presented at the Zurich Congress organized by the CG Jung Institute of Zurich (Interdisciplinary Perspectives on Emotions and their Impact) the paper “Freud and Jung. An Unexpected Encounter“.
Introduction:
This article aims to show how, in a clinical case, tools from different psychoanalytic theories can work together, referring mainly to the clinical practice of Freud and Jung.
In a first stage, the patient was treated with an approach based on Jungian analytical psychology and some obstacles arose in the process.
In the second part of the article, a historically contextualized fictional dream is presented, which discusses the real cases of Jung and Freud. Although Freud and Jung followed different paths after 1919, there was a strong common root between them, so they could never move away from each other. The myth built around the conflict, which occurred between them in 1919, exacerbated the differences and the idea that their differences were impossible to overcome.
The third part shows what happens when the case analyst was confronted with a more Freudian clinical approach. What seemed to be stagnant when treated with Jungian tools began to move again and a new perspective opened up.
