OM DE MULIGE FORBINDELSER MELLEM JUNGS ANALYTISKE PSYKOLOGI OG OBJEKTRELATIONSTEORI

Abstract

Readings in Jung’s Collected Works reveal him as a modern thinker and psychotherapist, who anticipated many of the later developments in psychoanalytic theory, not the least as to object-relations theory. The article points out, that Jung was not a disciple of Freud, but already before their meeting had made his own original work and developed concepts and ideas, which remained central to his later theoretical work. Jung also before meeting Freud expressed his critisism concerning the aetiology of pschyopathology and the concept of libido. Jung’s concepts of Self; archetype; complex and the transcendent function are compared to Winnicott’s Self and Bion’s »O«; Bion’s proto-thoughts and pre-concepts and Klein’s unconscious phantasy; internal objects and object-relations; Winnicott’s transitional objects and potential space. Furthermore, Jung used the concept of containing in 1925 and the concept of »participation mystique« since 1912 to describe the phenomena later to be defined as projective identification. Jung (1926) was a pioneer in the use of the countertransference. In »The psychology of Transference« (1946) he sat up a model for the therapeutic relationship, which anticipates the later concepts of the »analytic third« or the »intersubjective field« in psychoanalysis.