Jung without Freud?

Essentially what it says on the tin. Carl Jung was a German-speaking Swissman, and Sigmund Freud was a Jewish German born in Moravia. Let's say for whatever reason (Freud dies young, is never born, is never famous, is only famous in a limited area, etc.) that Freud's influence on Jung's work is minimal to none. What would Jung's already IOTL somewhat eccentric and esoteric philosophy and psychology look like?
 
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DISCLAIMER
I'm far from a serious student of psychology or Freud and Jung's works.

Jung owed a lot to Freud coming up with psychoanalytic approach and Freud's theory of neurosis through sexual repression.
However, Jung wanted to explore the irrational side of humanity - the collective unconcscious and mystical impulse among other things.
He wanted to elaborate on that.
Freud considered it both dangerous and off-topic. He felt he'd proven what the unconcscious was and how to deal with it without any need to conjure up ghosts.

IOW, Jung himself would have been a noted theorist, was already a psychiatrist before he started corresponding with Freud. I think that he wouldn't have been as prominent were it not for his association and work with Dr Freud and the connections he made via chairing the Psychoanalytical Society though, that allowed him to step up his game and get his side if things out to a much wider audience. YMMV but that's my take on it.

FWIW, I saw A Dangerous Method a month ago, and it was very good middle-brow fare. Keira Knightley is scrumptious and Vincent Cassel is a scream in the movie. Michael Fassbender's a bit of a stiff as Jung, and Viggo Mortensen smolders well as Freud.
You get the feeling Freud didn't want to let go of psychoanalysis as wholly his idea for all kinds of reasons and bitterly resented Jung seeing it as needing elaboration or modification. All this is lampshaded in the movie with Edwardian gilt and no subtlety whatsoever, but well worth a watch.
 
I have on occasion wondered about the possibility of Carl Jung and Rudolf Steiner collaborating if the former was less tied to Freud and the latter less contaminated by theosophy.
 
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