I've always preferred Jung.

I did too.

I think the brutality of Freuds pessimistic atheist attitude is liberating.

Initially there is the sting of despair ... I'm just an animal ? with this symbolic consciousness ?

But it is that horrific realism that can set you free .

Becker analyses Freud via Otto Rank and Kierkegaard (?) . K is the God believing existentialist and Freud is the atheist.

It is this divide I think which is the huge shift .

I am not a Freud scholar so I cannot answer your question ... It is the the de-mystification of the human experience , the curtailing of superstition.

There may be something mystical we are enmeshed in ... but Freud leveled it right down to material stuff.

Which allows room for further discoveries but attacks dangerous , damaging superstitions .

I am coming at this from the perspective that all human culture is toxically divisive ...

By the way , I tried to find a collapse board here ... for when the reddit gets collapsed ") ... I couldn't find one or make one ...