Lesson 4

• Carl Gustav Jung broke from orthodox psychoanalysis to establish a separate theory of personality called analytical psychology.
• Jung believed that each of us is motivated not only by repressed experiences but also by certain emotionally toned experiences inherited from our ancestors, these inherited images make up what Jung called the collective unconscious.
• Carl Jung was born on July 26, 1875 in Lake Constance in Switzerland.
• There’s a rumor that Carl Jung was the illegitimate son of the great German poet Goethe.
• Jung’s father, Johann Paul Jung, was a minister in the Swiss Reformed Church.
• Jung’s mother, Emilie Preiswerk Jung, was the daughter of a theologian.
• Both religion and medicine was prevalent in Jung’s family.
• The mother of Jung had a tradition of spiritualism and mysticism.
• Jung’s maternal grandfather, Samuel Preiswerk, believed about the occult and often talked to the dead.
• Jung’s parents had three children, a son who lived for 3 days and a daughter younger than Carl.
• Jung described his father as sentimental idealist.
• Jung saw his mother with two separate dispositions, one realistic, practical, warmhearted and the other unstable, mystical, clairvoyant, archaic and ruthless.
• The collective unconscious has roots in the ancestral past of the entire species, represents Jung’s most controversial, and most distinctive concept, and is responsible for people’s many myths, legends, and religious beliefs.
• The personal unconscious embraces all repressed, forgotten, or subliminally perceived experiences of one particular individual, and contains repressed infantile memories and impulses, forgotten events, and experiences originally perceived below the threshold of our consciousness.
• According to Jung, people have as many of these inherited tendencies as they have typical situations in life, and these tendencies begin to develop some content and to emerge as relatively autonomous archetypes with more repetition.
• Jung's notion of the ego is more restrictive to Freud's, seeing it as the center of consciousness but not the core of personality.
• The ego is not the whole personality, but must be completed by the more comprehensive self, the center of personality that is largely unconscious.
• Complexes, which are emotionally toned conglomerations of associated ideas, are largely personal and may stem from both the personal and collective unconscious.
• The collective unconscious produces “big dreams”, dreams with significance for people of every time and place, and does not refer to inherited ideas but rather to human’s innate tendency to react in a particular way.
• Consciousness plays a relatively minor role in analytical psychology.
• Archetypes are ancient or archaic images that derive from the collective unconscious.
• Jung strongly asserted that the most important portion of the unconscious springs not from personal experiences of the individual, but from the distant past of human existence, a content Jung called the collective unconscious.
• Jung identified more with the second side of his mother, which he called her No. 2 or night personality.
• Jung’s mother was hospitalized and separated when he was age 3, which deeply troubled him.
• Jung felt distressful whenever the word “love” was mentioned.
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• During school years, Jung became aware of two aspects of his self, he called these No. 1 and No. 2 personalities.
• During adolescence, Jung became aware of the No. 2 personality as a reflection of something other than himself.
• The ego as perceiver arises when the ego is divided into the objective and the subjective in childhood.
• Being old is highly unpopular, according to Jung.
• Psychological health should not be enhanced by success in business, prestige in society, or satisfaction with family life, according to Jung.
• The period from puberty until middle life, according to Jung, should be a period of increased activity, maturing sexuality, growing consciousness, and recognition that the problem-free era of childhood is gone forever.
• The ego is perceived as an object, but is not yet aware of itself as a perceiver in childhood.
• Finding their ideals shifting, people may fight desperately to maintain their youthful appearance and lifestyle in middle life.
• Middle life depicts middle-aged people with increasing anxieties, but also a period of tremendous potential.
• Children refer to themselves in the first person and are aware of their existence as separate individuals in childhood.