Using this Guardian piece as a brief reference...
The Influence Of Freud On Movies
(The actual title of the article is so awful, I went with the one that came up on the google page linking to the article.)
Anyone who has seen an average number of films from the 1950s up to about the early 70s can probably attest to what the article is talking about. Sometimes, the psychoanalytic motifs were confined to simply having a stereotypical psychoanalyst on hand as a character, but often they more explicitly employed
actual psychoanalytical ideas.
More often than not, the motifs were Freudian, as in the Oedipal theme utilized in Strangers On A Train(at the link). I'm guessing that Freud's emphasis on sex might have made his ideas more alluring to writers and audiences. But I'm wondering if there's a way that Jung, instead of Freud, could have been the go-to shrink for Hollywood screenwriters in that era. I'm mostly thinking of his theory of archetypes, along with the attendant fascination with religion, mythology, and fairy-tales that went along with it.
And what effect would this have on various genres? Horror and science-fiction might be obvious(we could possibly just extrapolate backwards from George Lucas' 1980s infatuation with Joseph Campbell), but I'm also wondering about the other genres that IOTL were heavily impacted by Freudianism. (Which is actually quite a few, from mystery/mystery to romantic comedy).
Or did Jung have his head too full of esoteric mysticism to be accessible to the average filmgoer?