On the Conflicts of the Child's Soul

Carl Jung

Newcomb Livraria Press

About this ebook

 "On the Conflicts of the Child's Soul" (original title "Über Konflikte der kindlichen Seele") was first published inside the Jahrbuch fur psychoanalytische und psychopathologische foschungen which included essays by Bleuler and Freud. It illustrates his further departure from the Freudian school of thought and his exploration into the deeper and broader aspects of the human psyche. Jung believed that children naturally gravitate towards certain symbols and myths as part of their psychological development, a perspective he would elaborate on more in his later works on the collective unconscious and archetypes. Unlike Freud, who emphasized childhood experiences and especially early sexual experiences as the dominant forces shaping the personality, Jung introduced the notion that children also possess innate ideas – precursors to his later, more refined concept of archetypes. He suggests that these are universally present and influence the child's experience of the world.

This edition is a new 2023 translation with an Afterword by the Translator, a philosophic index of Jung's terminology and a timeline of his life and works.

About the author

A massively influential Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, Jung founded the field of analytical psychology and built the modern concepts of Therapy. His concepts of the collective unconscious and archetypes were influential in understanding human psychology. Jung’s theories on personality, including the notions of introversion and extraversion, have left a lasting mark on psychology and psychotherapy to this day.