Carl Jung was very educated and for a while believed in many of Freud's theories about the unconscious. He tended to have lucid dreams and thought he was connected with humanity as a whole although he didn't know why. Through all his dreams he came up with a theory called collective unconscious. This theory was that the unconscious was all of the dead, not just ourselves. All of the contents in the collective unconscious are called archetypes. An archetype is an unlearned tendency to experience something in a certain way. Jung's theory of archetypes is similar to Freud's theory of instinct.
Alfred Adler believed that every child experiences the feeling of inferiority by being around more capable adults. The child is drived growing up by the original feeling of inferiority and strives for power and recognition. If a child fails to do this they then develop an inferiority complex, or a pattern of always feeling inferior and different from others.
Karen Horney disagreed with Freud's theory of penis envy. She proposed the idea of womb envy, saying that men have feelings of inferiority because they cannot give birth to children. This theory created more interest in the psychology of women.
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