JUNG

• Psychodynamic theories: Carl Jung's analytical psychology
• Collective unconscious


  The inherited images/elements that we have never experienced individually but which have come down to us from our ancestors
• Levels of the psyche

  • Conscious
  • Personal unconscious
  • Collective unconscious
• Conscious


  Images that are sensed by the ego, EGO - the center of consciousness
• Personal unconscious


  Memory storage containing complexes, important to trigger the collective unconscious, contains repressed infantile memories and impulses, forgotten events, and experiences originally perceived below the threshold of our consciousness, formed by our individual experiences and is therefore unique to each of us
• Complexes


  Individual experiences/ideas that define a person, the contents of the personal unconscious, an emotionally toned conglomeration of associated ideas, may be partly conscious and may stem from the personal and collective unconscious
• Collective unconscious


  The innate tendency to react in a particular way whenever their experiences stimulate a biologically inherited response tendency, the existing template inherited from the ancestors, the contents do not lie dormant but are active and influence a person's thoughts, emotions, and actions, responsible for myths, legends, and religious beliefs
• Archetypes


  The ancient or archaic images that derive from the contents of the collective unconscious, the primordial images that activates when you experience a certain situation, the psychic counterpart to an instinct, have a biological basis but originate through the repeated experiences of humans' early ancestors, cannot be directly represented, but when activated, it expresses itself through several modes, primarily dreams, fantasies, and delusions
• Persona


  The public face, the side of personality (mask) that people show to the world
• Shadow


  The archetype of darkness and repressions, represents the qualities we do not wish to acknowledge but attempt to hide from ourselves and others, the first test of courage
• Anima


  The male psyche that contains feminine aspects, influences the feeling side in man and is the explanation for certain irrational moods and feelings, the second test of courage
• Animus


  The female psyche that contains masculine aspects, the explanation for the irrational thinking and illogical opinions
• Great mother


  Represent two opposing forces – (1) fertility & nourishment and (2) power and destruction
• Wise old man


  The archetype of wisdom and meaning, symbolizes humans' preexisting knowledge of the mysteries of life
• Hero


  Represented in mythology and legends as a powerful person who fights against great odds to conquer or vanquish evil
• Self


  The innate disposition to move toward growth, perfection, and completion, the archetype of archetypes, pulls together the other archetypes and unites them in the process of self-realization, symbolized by a person's ideas of perfection, completion, and wholeness, MANDALA - the ultimate symbol of self; represents the strivings of collective unconscious for unity, balance, and wholeness
• Psychological types


  • Attitudes
  • Functions
• Attitude


  The predisposition to act or react in a characteristic directions, introversion - the turning inward of psychic energy with an orientation toward the subjective, extraversion - the turning outward of psychic energy with an orientation toward the objective
• Functions


  • Thinking
  • Feeling
  • Sensing
  • Intuiting
• Thinking


  Enables people to recognize meaning, the logical intellectual activity that produces a chain of ideas, extraverted thinking - rely heavily on concrete thoughts but may also use abstract ideas, introverted thinking - react to external stimuli but interpretation of an event is colored more by the internal meaning
• Feeling


  Tells people its value or worth, the process of evaluating an idea or event, the evaluation of every conscious activity, extraverted feeling - use objective data to make evaluations, introverted feeling - value judgment primarily on subjective perceptions
• Sensing


  Tells people that something exists, the process of receiving physical stimuli and transmitting them to perceptual consciousness, extraverted sensing - perceive stimuli objectively, introverted sensing - largely influenced by subjective sensations
• Intuiting


  Allows people to know about it without knowing how they know, involves perception beyond the workings of consciousness, extraverted intuiting - oriented towards facts in the external world, introverted intuiting - guided by unconscious perception of facts that are basically subjective
• Self-realization


  Also known as psychological rebirth or individuation, the process of becoming an individual or whole person, involves: minimized persona, acceptance of shadow, recognized anima and animus, balance attitude, elevated 4 functions to superior position, extremely rare and is achieved only by people who are able to assimilate their unconscious into their total personality, must allow the unconscious self to become the core of the personality