Pt.3 Jung

• Carl Gustav Jung: '"My life is a story of the self-realization of the unconscious. Everything in the unconscious seeks outward manifestations, and the personality too desires to evolve out of its unconscious conditions"'
• Ego


  The conscious mind, responsible for feelings of identity and continuity, but not the center of personality
• Personal unconscious


  Holds the perceptions, thoughts, and memories that have been put aside but can be easily recovered, including individuals' life history that has been repressed or forgotten
• Collective unconscious


  Shared, transpersonal, contributes to depth psychology, contains archetypes (universal thought forms or predispositions to respond to the world)
• Persona


  The social role that one assumes in society and one's understanding of it, used to adjust to the demands of society
• Shadow


  Encompasses the unsocial thoughts, feelings, and potentials that we potentially possess and other characteristics that we do not accept, the "devil" within
• Anima is the feminine side of the male psyche, Animus is the masculine side of the female psyche, having such helps us understand and relate to the opposite sex
• Self


  The central archetype, represents the striving for unity of all parts of the personality and harmonizes the expression of the personality, lies in between the conscious and unconscious, emerges in midlife
• Mandala


  A symbol of the self, represents the self striving for wholeness, found in different forms across cultures
• Self-realization


  The process of the self, starts at birth but does not fully occur until midlife when major changes occur
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  Progression is the forward flow of psychic energy to adapt to the outside world, regression is the backward flow to adapt to the inner world, balance leads to healthy personality development
• Stages of personality development

  • Childhood: Anarchic, Monarchic, Dualistic phases
  • Youth: Striving for independence, finding a mate, raising a family, making a place in the world
  • Middle life: Filled with anxiety and potential, discovering new meaning and religious orientation, dealing with life/death
  • Old age: Fear of death, meaning of death
• Psychotherapy techniques

  • Word Association Test
  • Dream Analysis
  • Active Imagination
• Critique of Jung's analytical psychology

  • Philosophical rather than psychological
  • Very low on ability to withstand falsification
  • Moderate rating on freewill vs. determinism, optimism vs pessimism, and causality and teleology
  • Very high on unconscious influences
  • Low on uniqueness
  • Low on social influences
  • Both conscious and unconscious personal experiences
• Youth


  • Morning sun
  • Climbing toward zenith toward impending decline
  • Young people strive to gain psychic and physical independence from their parents, find a mate, raise a family, and make a place in the world
  • Middle aged people that attempt to hold on to youthful values face a crippled second half of life, unable to self-realize and establish new goals and seek out new meaning in life
• Middle life


  • Brilliant late morning sun but heading toward sunset
  • Begins at 35 or 40 and is filled with much anxiety and periods of tremendous potential
  • Discover new meaning in life and often have a new religious orientation and deal with life/death
• Old age


  • Evening sun
  • Once bright consciousness that is now markedly dim
  • Fear of death, meaning of death
• Word Association Test


  Responses reveal complexes
• Dream Analysis


  Proof of the collective unconscious
• Active Imagination


  Requires the person to begin with an impression like a dream, image, vision, picture, or fantasy, and to concentrate on it until the impression begins to move. Follow the image and try to communicate with it no matter where it goes