JUNG

• ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY

  "Theory of Opposites"
• Jung generally did not refer to personality but rather to the psyche, a Latin word that originally meant “SPIRIT” or “SOUL”.
• The SELF includes all of person’s qualities and potentials, even those that are not yet apparent a particular stage of life.
• Through life, Jung stated that flow of libido can be either OUTWARD or INWARD.
• Consciousness and unconscious coexist in individuals, described as COMPENSATION

  Consciousness is necessary for dealing with the real-world while unconscious compensates for the one-sidedness of consciousness
• COMPENSATION - serves as homeostasis-like mechanism to restore balance
• INDIVIDUATION - is the process of restoring wholeness to the psyche in adult development
• The GOAL of individuation, is to move the center of personality from the ego to some midpoint between the ego and the unconscious.
• TRANSCENDENT FUNCTION - is the aspect of personality that integrates the diverse aspects into a unified whole
• SELF-REALIZATION - is achieved only by people who are able to assimilate their unconscious into their total personality
• LEVELS OF PSYCHE

  • Conscious
  • Personal Unconscious
  • Collective Unconscious
• CONSCIOUS - Those that are sensed by the ego, where the ego is the center of consciousness, but not the core of personality
• PERSONAL UNCONSCIOUS - Psychic images not sensed by the ego
• PERSONAL UNCONSCIOUS - Contains COMPLEXES (emotionally toned groups of related ideas) and the collective unconscious which includes various archetypes
• COMPLEXES - emotionally toned groups of related ideas
• COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS - Beyond personal experiences and roots in the ancestral past of the entire species
• The COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS is shaped by the remote evolutionary experiences of the human species and transmitted to each individual through genetic inheritance
• ARCHETYPES - are ancient or archaic images that derive from the collective unconscious.
• Archetypes are psychic unconscious impulse while instincts are physical counterparts
• Archetypes have both an emotional, psychosomatic component and a cognitive component of associated images and ideas, and they influence behavior
• Archetypes have a biological basis but originate through the REPEATED EXPERIENCES OF HUMANS' EARLY ANCESTORS (fundamental emotional & cognitive processes)
• Archetypes cannot be directly represented, but when activated, it expresses itself through several modes, primarily dreams, fantasies, and delusions
• EXAMPLES OF ARCHETYPES

  • Persona - Shadow
  • Animus - Anima
  • Great Mother - Wise Old Man
  • Hero - Trickster
  • Mandala/Self
• PERSONA - Side of personality that people show to the world
• SHADOW - Archetype of darkness and repression
• SHADOW - these are qualities we do not wish to acknowledge but attempt to hide from ourselves and others
• TESTS OF COURAGE

  1. "Realization of our shadow"
  2. "Gaining acquaintance with our anima/animus"
• “REALIZATION OF OUR SHADOW” - is our first test of courage
• ANIMA - Feminine side of men
• ANIMA - Influences the feeling side in man and is the explanation for certain irrational moods and feelings
• ANIMUS - Masculine side of women
• ANIMUS - Symbolic of thinking and reasoning
• ANIMUS - Responsible for thinking and opinion in women, and the explanation for the irrational thinking and illogical opinions often attributed to women
• The process of GAINING ACQUAINTANCE WITH OUR ANIMA/ANIMUS is our second test of courage
• GREAT MOTHER - Represents two opposing forces—fertility and nourishment and power and destruction
• WISE OLD MAN - Represents wisdom and meaning, symbolizes humans’ preexisting knowledge of the mysteries of life
• HERO - Represented in mythology and legends as a powerful person, sometimes part god, who fights against great odds to conquer or vanquish evil in the form of dragons, monsters, serpents, or demons.
• HERO - MUST HAVE SOME FLAWS, without it, one cannot be a hero
• TRICKSTER - This appears in various cultures as a simple-minded prankster who seems to be outwitted but who ultimately brings good results
• TRICKSTER - Jung referred to this as “a collective shadow figure, a summation of all the inferior traits of character in an individual”