THE CONTRIBUTIONS OF JUNG TO PSYCHOANALYSIS

Abstract

At the beginning of its development, philosophy brought together, in its reflective reckoning, a series of other areas of knowledge, which in modern times gradually came to have epistemological autonomy. Psychology is one of those. This article seeks to analyze the relationship of elements present in Jung's theory of the human psyche with theories of philosophers who were contemporary with him. In Kant we will find references to a priori categories, which make up the human psyche and the way it perceives reality. In Nietzsche's work, we will find elements related to a community-based behavioral nature, from which individuals make their choices based on categories present in a given social group. In Darwin, we will find elements that allow us to understand the existence of basic genetic forms, which are not modified by the process of adapting to reality. Finally, in Freud, we will find the elements that support the existence of other structures of the psyche that coexist with consciousness. With these analyzes, we intend to demonstrate that analytical psychology, as Jung's current of psychology became known, was deeply influenced by philosophy.