CHAPTER 4: Analytical Psychology (Carl Jung)

• Carl Gustav Jung

  • heard a woman from within that said his science was art.
  • grandfather of carl jung
• Analytical Psychology

  • the assumption that occult phenomena can and do influence the lives of everyone.
• Carl Jung

  • Found analytical Psychology
• Johann Paul Jung and Emilie Preiswerk Jung

  • Parents of Carl Gustav Jung
• Jung’s mother’s family had a tradition of spiritualism and mysticism, and his maternal grandfather, Samuel Preiswerk, was a believer in the occult and often talked to the dead.
• Jung (1961) described his father as a sentimental idealist with strong doubts about his religious faith.
• Jung identified more with this second side of his mother, which he called her No. 2 or night personality.
• Years later he still associated “woman” with unreliability, whereas the word “father” meant reliable but powerless.
• No.1 Personality

  • Extraverted and in tune with the objective world.
• No.2 Personality

  • Introverted and directed inward toward his subjective world.
• Jung’s first choice of a profession was archeology, but he was also interested in philology, history, philosophy, and the natural sciences. 
• Helene Preiswerk

  • Claimed she could communicate with the dead.
• During 1902–1903, Jung studied for 6 months in Paris with Pierre Janet, successor to Charcot. 
• Collective Unconscious

  • that each of us is motivated not only by repressed experiences but also by certain emotionally toned experiences inherited from our ancestors. 
• Self realization

  • achieved only by attaining a balance between various opposing forces of personality.
• Archaeology

  • First choice of profession of Carl Jung
• International Psychoanalytic Association

  • Freud chose Carl Jung as his successor to this association because he believed that Jung was a man of great intellect.
• G. Stanley Hall invited Carl Jung, Sigmund Freud, and Sandor Ferenczi to deliver a series of lectures at Clark University.
• Sabina Spielrein

  • patient of Carl Jung who he had a relationship with for 5 years within a 7 year marriage.
• Toni Wolff

  • Mistress of Carl Jung.
• Emma Jung

  • Wife of Carl Jung
• Creative illness

  • a trip through the underground of his own unconscious psyche.
• Conscious

  • Mental images that are sensed by the ego and that play a relatively minor role in Jungian theory
• Ego

  • The center of consciousness. In Jungian psychology, it is of lesser importance than the more inclusive self and is limited to consciousness. 
• Personal Unconscious

  • Jung’s term for those repressed experiences that pertain exclusively to one particular individual; opposed to the collective unconscious, which pertains to unconscious experiences that originate with repeated experiences of our ancestors.
• Complexes

  • An emotionally toned conglomeration of ideas that comprise the contents of the personal unconscious. Jung originally used the word association test to uncover this.
• Collective unconscious

  • Jung’s idea of an inherited unconscious, which is responsible for many of our behaviors, ideas, and dream images. This lies beyond our personal experiences and originates with repeated experiences of our ancestors.
• Big Dreams

  • dreams with meaning beyond the individual dreamer and that are filled with significance for people of every time and place.
• Archetypes

  • Jung’s concept that refers to the contents of the collective unconscious. It is also called primordial images or collective symbols, represent psychic patterns of inherited behavior and are thus distinguished from instincts, which are physical impulses toward action. Typical archetypes are the anima, animus, and shadow.
• Instinct

  • An unconscious physical impulse toward action. These are the physical counterpart of archetypes. 
• Persona

  • Jungian archetype that represents the side of personality that one shows to the rest of the world. Also, the mask worn by ancient Roman actors in the Greek theater and thus the root of the word “personality.”
• Continuously strive to know our shadow

  • First test of courage
• Shadow

  • Jungian archetype representing the inferior or dark side of personality.
• Process of gaining acquaintance with their anima

  • Second test of courage.
• Anima

  • Jungian archetype that represents the feminine component in the personality of males and originates from men’s inherited experiences with women.
• Animus

  • Jungian archetype that represents the masculine component in the personality of females and originates from women’s inherited experiences with men
• Great mother archetype

  • Jungian archetype of the opposing forces of fertility and destruction.
• Wise Old man Archetype

  • Jungian archetype of wisdom and meaning.
• Hero archetype

  • A Jungian archetype representing the myth of the godlike man who conquers or vanquishes evil, usually in the form of a monster, dragon, or serpent.
• Self

  • The most comprehensive of all archetypes, this includes the whole of personality, although it is mostly unconscious. This is often symbolized by the mandala motif.