Besides providing a wealth of material about both the theoretical and the institutional developments of early
psychoanalysis, the correspondence also charts the intense relationship between Freud and Jung during the period in question. Where Jung wrote of his "unconditional veneration" for Freud, the latter in turn claimed that "Your person has filled with confidence in the future." What has been seen as a mixture of
narcissistic idealisation and
grandiosity on the part of both men, combined with the persisting theoretical differences of substance over the
libido theory in particular, led ultimately to the break-up of the relationshipgiving the shape of the correspondence something of the appearance of a classic
tragedy. ==See also==