The great history of sleep part 5: The activation of sleep

When the theory of dreams got corrected until sleep became an industry

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1963

Carl Gustav Jung, one of the students of Sigmund Freud.

Theorized that dreams are not so much the result of repression but a manifestation of and a pathway to the collective unconscious shared by all people.

First published in 1963, his autobiographical:

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Personally, When i first started to know the Junglian model i was instantly hooked. The way Carl Jung approaches dreams seemed for me a more logical route to take. The work Freud did is not to be underestimated and served as great importance for later science. Although Freud liked to be very involved himself, possibly too much involved, where Carl and Freud’s opinions diverged.

Following Jung, scientists began pulling back the curtain on sleep and slowly disproving the idea that sleep is simply a time of inactivity.

1965: Obstructive sleep apnea

Discovered in Europe by two separate groups, Gastant et al and Jung and Kuhlo.