Carl Jung was very interested in the psychic component of the personality and developed the theories of the collective unconscious, anima/animus, archetypes and synchronicity. His doctoral thesis was "The Psychology and Pathology of So-Called Occult Phenomena." It was based on a young female medium who was his cousin.
Jung's mother and grandmother were "ghost seers." His mother kept a journal of psychic experiences. His mother had a talent for PK, psychokinesis, the ability of the mind to affect matter. When he was young, her talent split a bread knife into four pieces. Jung had the pieces photographed and sent a copy of the picture to J. B. Rhine, one of the founders of modern parapsychology, at Duke University.
During Jung's first meeting with Freud, March 5th 1909, he displayed his own psychokinetic ability by making various items in the room rattle on the furniture.
It was the second demonstration in 1912 that caused the rift. Freud accused Jung of being to preoccupied with the "occult," as psychic phenomena was also mistakenly referred as to then. Jung felt heat build up in is diaphragm, then a loud report was heard from the bookcase. Freud tuned pale. Jung said that this would happen again and it did.
Freud accused Jung of having a death wish against him. This ended the relationship between the two men.
Jung developed a Judas complex and, later, wrote "Seven Sermons to the Dead." He believed that Philemon and other spirits visited him and that the dead had to learn things from the living. There were other phenomena that appeared at the time including poltergeist activity, déjà vu, precognitive dreams, clairvoyance, telepathy and spiritual emergence.
Jung also began to experiment with Rudi Schneider and Oscar Schlag, two famous mediums of that time. Jung believed he had seen parapsychological phenomena which included materialization and telekinesis, the ability to affect matter from a distance.
Sandor Ferenczi, then, became Freud's favorite disciple. He was an M.D. who became interested in psychic phenomena. What led to this was that he had visited with Dr. Emil Felletar, a professor at the university he attended and was invited to a séance in Buda, now, part of Budapest. By this time, Ferenczi had decided to specialize in psychiatry.
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