13 Hours Talk?!

Sigmund Freud, the Father of Modern Psychology, the blueprint of psychoanalysis, and the person telling us that people are driven by their sex drives, which he refers to as our libido. The psychosexual theory caused significant turmoil, especially for casual readers, due to its explicit viewpoint towards psychology. On a brighter scale, Freud’s theory became so falsifiable that it caused a positive and negative stir among early psychologists. As a result, it gave birth to a lot of psychological theories that helped the field to widen the perspective of the ever-changing society. And even some became his fans and admirers.

To name one of his followers, he is no ordinary person, for he is the founder of analytical psychology, Carl Gustav Jung. In his early life, Jung was exposed to Christianity because his father was a pastor. But despite that, he views his father as weak and powerless, so he failed to be the strong authority figure little Carl Jung needed.

Just like a fan meeting his idol, Carl Jung also got a chance to meet Sigmund Freud in Vienna in 1907. This is also where the 13-hour talk between Jung and Freud happened. It became a laughing stock and became a meme-worthy of content for most, if not all, people who knew about it. For a simple reason, who would talk for 13 hours straight, and no one in this world knows what topics both of them talked about? Some of the psychology majors ship both of them for fun, given that Jung has “Daddy Issues” and Freud is the perfect person to satisfy those “Daddy Issues” by leaning more on his masculinity.

“But we were something, don't you think so?” Just like what is written here in the lyrics of Taylor Swift’s song, The One, after the ever-famous 13 hours of talk, they become something. An intense 5 years of friendship blossomed between Jung and Freud in the aftermath. Now, who would have ever thought that despite their repelling personalities, it became a driving force in becoming one of the most talked about events in the history of psychology?

Every relationship has its own breaking point. “But the greatest love of all time is over now” (The One, Taylor Swift); everything is temporary in this ever-changing world. Sigmund Freud became unhappy with Carl Gustav Jung’s disagreement on some of the key concepts and ideas of his psychoanalytic theory, mainly about sexuality being the key motivating behavioral force.