Carl Jung

• Childhood experiences of being bullied and fainting spells
• Friendship with Freud
• First conversation with Freud lasted 13 hours
• Coldness in friendship with Freud
• Break from Freud in 1914 due to disagreements about the role of sexuality
• 1912 – The Psychology of the Unconscious
• 1938 – Terry lectures at Yale University
• Controversy about being a Nazi sympathizer
• Died in 1962
• Levels of the Psyche
• Psyche is the total personality in a nonphysical space with its own special reality
• Psychic energy flows continuously in various directions and is interchangeable with libido
• Operates according to the principles of opposites, equivalence, and entropy
• Principle of Opposites: Energy comes from conflict
• Principle of Equivalence: Energy expended in one part of the psyche will be compensated for by an equal amount of energy in another part
• Principle of Entropy: Energy is automatically redistributed in the psyche to achieve equilibrium
• The aim of individual development is self-realization and the integration of all aspects of the psyche
• Ego is the force in the personality responsible for feelings of identity and continuity
• Contains conscious thoughts of behavior, feelings, and memories
• Personal Unconscious contains repressed, forgotten, or subliminally perceived experiences
• Unique to each individual and emotionally toned conglomeration of associated ideas
• Collective Unconscious is a storehouse of latent memories of human and prehuman ancestry
• Consists of instincts and archetypes that affect behavior and shape personality
• Archetypes are ancient or archaic images that derive from the collective unconscious
• Persona is a universal manifestation of dealing appropriately with others
• Shadow represents qualities we do not wish to acknowledge and attempt to hide
• Anima is the feminine archetype in men, appearing in dreams and fantasies
• Animus is the masculine archetype in women, appearing in dreams and fantasies
• Great Mother archetype represents fertility, nourishment, power, and destruction
• Carl Jung was born in 1875 in Switzerland
• He had a lonely childhood and experienced fainting spells in early childhood
• Jung studied medicine at the University of Basel
• He later became a lecturer at the University of Zurich
• Jung was the first president of the International Psychoanalytic Society
• He founded his own school of thought called analytic psychology
• Jung's mother was institutionalized due to mental illness
• His childhood experiences included being bullied and having fainting spells
• Jung had a friendship with Sigmund Freud
• Their first conversation lasted 13 hours
• Different definitions of unconscious