This essay is about the similarities and differences between the philosophies of the two principle fathers of Western philosophy, Plato [Socrates], Aristotle and contemporary psychology. It is very evident that Depth-psychology, particularly Jungian but also Freudian, mainly follow on the line of Plato. Both Freud and Plato esteem reason as a way to come to terms with the unruly energies contained in what Freud referred to as the id and Plato, the wild beast in our nature. Plato also saw the need for laws to help contain humankind’s wildness, while Freud, coming out of a repressed Victorian age, saw the need for reason to mediate between the id and the overly repressive ideals and morality of the superego.
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