top #5 - jung: analytical psychology

• What is interpersonal psychology?

  A field studying interactions between individuals
• Name three concepts of interpersonal psychology.

  Self-concept, social perception, communication
• What are the levels of cognition?

  Conscious, personal unconscious, collective unconscious
• What is analytical psychology?

  • Theory of personality emphasizing wholeness
  • Importance of early experiences in personality development
  • Role of cultural shifts and archetypes
  • Relationship between individual and collective unconscious
• Who developed analytical psychology?

  Carl Gustav Jung
• When was Carl Jung born?

  July 26, 1875
• How did Jung describe his father?

  As a sentimental idealist with doubts
• What was significant about Jung's childhood?

  It was lonely and marked by loss
• What profession did Jung initially plan to pursue?

  Medicine, specializing in surgery
• What influenced Jung to study psychiatry?

  A textbook by Krafft-Ebing on subjective psychiatry
• Where did Jung have his first professional appointment?

  As an assistant in a mental hospital in Zurich
• What did Jung develop to study emotional reactions?

  A word association test
• Who did Jung marry?

  Emma Rauschenbach
• What was the nature of Jung's relationship with Freud?

  Initially a follower, later a critic
• What did Jung explore in depth after breaking with Freud?

  The collective unconscious
• What influenced Jung's unique theories?

  Eastern religions, mythology, and alchemy
• When did Carl Jung die?

  1961
• What are the levels of the psyche according to Jung?

  1. Conscious: Ego and identity
  2. Personal Unconscious: Forgotten or suppressed material
  3. Collective Unconscious: Inherited experiences of humanity
• What is the role of the ego in Jung's theory?

  It selects perceptions and maintains identity
• What does the personal unconscious contain?

  Forgotten memories and repressed impulses
• What are complexes in Jung's theory?

  Contents of the personal unconscious
• What is the collective unconscious?

  The deepest level of the psyche with inherited experiences
• What are archetypes?

  Universal images in the collective unconscious
• How do archetypes express themselves?

  Through dreams, fantasies, and delusions
• What does the persona represent?

  The public face or role presented to others
• What does the shadow archetype contain?

  Primitive instincts and hidden qualities
• What is the anima?

  The feminine archetype in men
• What does the animus represent?

  The unconscious masculine side of a woman
• What does the Great Mother archetype symbolize?

  Fertility and destruction forces
• What does the Wise Old Man archetype represent?

  Wisdom and understanding of life's mysteries
• What does the hero archetype represent?

  A powerful figure conquering evil
• What does the self archetype symbolize?

  Growth, perfection, and wholeness
• What are the dynamics of personality according to Jung?

  • Causality: Present events originate from past experiences
  • Teleology: Present events motivated by future goals
  • Progression: Forward flow of energy for self-realization
  • Regression: Backward flow of energy for inner adaptation
• What is the difference between progression and regression?

  Progression moves forward; regression looks inward
• What are the eight personality types according to Jung?

  1. Introverted Thinking
  2. Introverted Feeling
  3. Introverted Sensing
  4. Introverted Intuition
  5. Extraverted Thinking
  6. Extraverted Feeling
  7. Extraverted Sensing
  8. Extraverted Intuition
• What characterizes introversion?

  Orientation toward one's own thoughts and feelings
• What characterizes extraversion?

  Orientation toward the external world and others
• What do introverted thinking types tend to do?

  Live according to fixed rules and repress feelings
• What do extraverted feeling types tend to do?

  Use objective data for evaluations
• What do introverted sensing types focus on?

  Subjective sensations rather than objective reality