JUNG "ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY"

• Carl Jung


  (1875-1961) His family tree is both religious and most of them are doctors
• Lived as an only child for 9 years before his sister was born
• His father


  Idealist with strong doubts on his faith
• His mother


  Has 2 sides; the realistic slide and the mystical side
• Jung's personality

  Personality 1 (extraverted; external objective world) and personality 2 (introverted; subjective world)
• He was best friends with Freud before, talking for 13 hours straight when they first met. He confessed that it was somehow a religious crush or something
• Jung, like Freud, based his personality theory on the assumption that the mind, or psyche, has both a conscious and an unconscious level
• 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 – the collective unconscious
• Levels of the Psyche

  • Conscious
  • Personal Unconscious
  • Collective Unconscious
• Conscious


  Conscious images are those that are sensed by the ego, whereas unconscious elements have no relationship with the ego
• Ego


  The center of consciousness, but not the core of personality. Ego is not the whole personality, but must be completed by the more comprehensive self
• Attitude


  A predisposition to act or react in a characteristic direction
• Attitudes


  • Introversion
  • Extraversion
• Introversion


  Turning inward of psychic energy with an orientation toward the subjective. Turned to their inner world with all its biases, fantasies, dreams and individual perceptions. Perceive external world selectively
• Extraversion


  Turning outward of psychic energy so that the person is oriented toward the objective. More influenced by their surroundings than by their inner world
• Functions

  • Thinking
  • Feeling
  • Sensation
  • Intuition
• Thinking


  Enables one to recognize meaning
• Feeling


  Tells the value or worth of something. The valuing of every conscious activity and should be distinguished from emotion
• Sensation


  Tells people that something exists
• Intuition


  Allows them to know about something without knowing how they know. Perception beyond the workings of consciousness
• Jungian types are formed by the combination of attitudes (introversion/extraversion) and functions (thinking/feeling/sensation/intuition)
• Personal Unconscious


  Repressed, forgotten, or subliminally perceived experiences of one particular individual. Contains repressed infantile memories and impulses, forgotten events, and experiences formed by our individual experiences and is therefore unique to each of us
• Complex


  An emotionally toned conglomeration of associated ideas. Largely personal, but they may also be partly derived from humanity's collective experience. Partly conscious and may stem from personal and collective unconscious
• Collective Unconscious


  Consists of thoughts and images that are difficult to bring into awareness. However, these thoughts were never pressed out of consciousness. Each of us was born with this unconscious material and is basically the same for all people. Made up of primordial images collectively referred to as archetypes
• Archetype


  A universal thought form or predisposition to respond to the world in certain ways. A potential to respond to the world in a certain way, the psychic counterpart to an instinct
• Archetypes in Cultural Forms

  • Professor Dumbledore is the wise old man, and Harry Potter is the hero who undertakes an archetypal journey
• Some Important Archetypes

  • Persona
  • Anima and Animus
  • Self
  • Shadow
• Persona


  The side of personality on show to the world. Each person must project a role, one that society dictates. Should not be confused with complete self. If people identify too closely with their persona they remain unconscious of their individuality and are blocked from attaining self-realization
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  Anima - the female side of the male. Animus - the masculine side of the female. Principal function of these archetypes is to guide the selection of a romantic partner and the course of the subsequent relationship
• Androgynous ideal


  The presence of both masculine and feminine qualities in an individual and the ability to realize both potentialities
• Self


  An inherited tendency to move towards growth, perfection, and completion. The archetype of archetypes because it pulls together other archetypes and unites them in the process of self realization. Includes both personal and collective images. Symbolized by a person's ideas of perfection, completion, and wholeness but its ultimate symbol is the mandala
• Mandala


  In Hindu and Buddhist thought, a symbol of the universe and a symbol of the self (Jung). A concentrically arranged figure such as a circle, wheel, or cross, which Jung saw appearing again and again in his patients' dreams and in the artwork of all cultures. It represents the self striving toward wholeness
• Shadow


  Contains the unconscious part of ourselves that is essentially negative. The evil side of human kind. Located partly in the personal unconscious in the form of repressed feelings and partly in the collective unconscious
• Good vs. evil is the most common theme in literature because the collective unconscious of all people readily grasps the concept</b>
• Well-adjusted people incorporate their good and evil parts into a wholeness of self. Otherwise we may project our evil thoughts on others (projection)
• Evidence for the Collective Unconscious comes from a lifelong study of modern and ancient cultures particularly mythology, cultural symbols, dreams, and the statements of schizophrenics
• If a collective unconscious exists that is basically the same for each of us, the primordial images should be found in some form in all cultures and across time
• Primordial images are expressed in dreams, art, folklore, and mythology. People suffering from psychosis are said to describe archetype-based images
• Causality


  Holds that present events have their origin in previous experiences
• Teleology


  Holds that present events are motivated by goals and aspirations for the future that directs a person's destiny