carl jung

• Jung did not believe that libido was primarily a sexual energy; he argued instead that it was a broad, undifferentiated life energy
• Jung used the term libido in two ways: first, as a diffuse and general life energy, and second, from a perspective similar to Freud’s, as a narrower psychic energy that fuels the work of the personality, which he called the psyche
• psyche is Jung’s term for personality
• psychic energy is the basis of jung's system
• psychic energy is the driving force of actions
• three principles of psychic energy:

  • opposition principle
  • equivalence principle
  • entropy principle
• our personality is a product of our ancestral history
• fear and knowledge is predisposed from our ancestors
• personality is partially closed
• a young person believes their center of personality is the conscious mind or ego
• a young person should be subjected to outside factors; the self should be the center of personality
• individualization process is necessary for a person to transcend
• individualization is when all system in the psyche develops individuality
• to reach individualization is when we have to entertain our unconscious self
• our religion influences our personal unconscious
• complex is a group of feelings that live in our personal unconscious
• complex is our ideas and perception; our perception comes from past & experience
• the mother complex is our racial experiences from the mothers of our ancestors
• mother complex is our ancestor's experience that was disposed plus our personal experience
• mother complex has a strong influence towards our behavior and we tend to emulate this when we grow older
• our personal unconscious is forgotten
• collective unconscious is original & controversial
• everyone more or less came or has the same collective unconscious from our birth
• collective unconscious is a storehouse of memory traces
• collective unconscious is entirely detached from person life of individual
• collective unconscious is bequated experiences from ancestors
• collective unconscious are those racial memories that we do not inherit but can be possible relived based on experience
• the most prominent & distinct feature of jung's view of humans is that it combines teleology with causality
• human behavior is conditioned not only by individual & racial history (causality) but also by aims & aspirations (teleology)
• jung's view of personality looks ahead to the person's future life of development & the account of past
• sees individual personality as the product & container of its ancestral history
• humans are born with many predispositions that have been bequeathed to them by ancestors
• the total personality or psyche consists of a number of differentiated but interacting systems
• the levels of the psyche are the conscious, the personal unconscious, the collective unconscious
• • the conscious - ego
  • the personal unconscious - complexes
  • the collective unconscious - archetypes
• Jung saw the ego as the center of consciousness, but not the core of personality
• The ego is the center of consciousness, the part of the psyche concerned with perceiving, thinking, feeling, and remembering
• extraversion - an attitude of the psyche characterized by an orientation toward the external world and other people
• introversion - an attitude of the psyche characterized by an orientation toward one’s own thoughts and feelings
• personal unconscious - the reservoir of material that was once conscious but has been forgotten or suppressed