Freudian or Jungian, what’s the difference

Despite having worked closely together for several years, Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud developed their ideas independently. The major distinction between the two approaches is a fundamentally different view of the nature of the unconscious.

While Freud and his followers saw the unconscious as a result of repression or dissociation, framing it in the patient's life, Jung stated that the unconscious extends far beyond personal contents, uniting the experience of many generations as well as living people, each of whose individual psyche emerges from a single unconscious field. Based on his own study and understanding of the symbol, Jung developed a prospective approach to unconscious contents that contemporary Jungian analysts use in their practical work, alongside Freud's reductive approach. 

As a result, during certain stages of analysis, a Jungian analyst works similarly to a Freudian, drawing on Freudian school theories in his work. At other phases—and this shift can occur during a single session—he engages with unconscious material from the standpoint of Jung.