Coming up on Word Matters, the story of three psychologists, one dictionary, and a complicated word.
I'm Emily Brewster,
and Word Matters is produced by Merriam-Webster in collaboration with New England Public Media.
On this special episode,
Peter Sokolowski and I are joined by Johanna Mayer and Chris Agusa from the Science Diction podcast to tell the story of the word introvert.
The word introvert, as we know it today,
was born out of the troubled relationship between two pillars of modern thought,
Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung.
We'll begin our exploration with Johanna Mayer and Chris Agusa telling the story of Freud and Jung in a segment from the Science Diction episode,
Introvert the Invention of a Type.
Here's Johanna and Chris.
In February of 1907, two men met in a richly decorated apartment in Vienna,
both giants of the psychology world, Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud.
At that point, Freud was well known as the founder of psychoanalysis,
intensely ambitious and often controversial.
He introduced the world to ideas like repressed trauma and the ego,
but he had yet to find a contemporary who he felt was at his level.
Enter Carl Jung.
Nearly 20 years younger than Freud, Jung was obsessed with dreams and spirituality.
When they met that first time in Vienna,