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A comprehensive summary of Carl Jung's Analytical Psychology. Source: Theories of Personality by Feist&Feist, 1oth Edition.
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- His father died when he was in his 1st year ofChapter 4: Jung: medical school; begins to attend series of
seances
Analytical Psychology - became a psychiatric assistant to Eugene
Bleuler
Subject: Theories of Personality - married Emma Rauschenbach
Source: Feist & Feist, 10th Edition - In 1906, Jung and Freud began a steady
correspondence; developed strong mutual respect
and affection for each other.
- Freud believed that Jung was the ideal person to
❖ Overview of Analytical Psychology
be his successor; had warm personal feelings for
- rests on the assumption that occult phenomena
Jung and regarded him as a man of great
can and do influence the lives of everyone
intellect.
- each of us is motivated by certain emotionally
- the first president of the International
toned experiences inherited from our ancestors
Psychoanalytic Association
- Collective unconscious includes elements that
- Jung and Freud had broken up their
we have never experienced individually but which
relationship due to personal and theoretical
have come down to us from our ancestors;
differences.
inherited images; one of the most intriguing of all
- withdrew his membership in the International
conceptions of personality
Psychoanalytic Association
- Archetypes are highly developed elements of the
- It was suggested that Jung’s rejection of Freud’s
collective unconscious.
sexual theories may have stemmed from his
- Self-realization is the most inclusive archetype
ambivalent sexual feelings toward Freud.
which can be achieved only by attaining a balance
- experienced loneliness and isolation due to
between various opposing forces of personality.
break up from Freud
- Jung’s theory is a compendium of opposites.
- underwent “creative illness”, a trip through the
underground of own unconscious psyche; similar to
Freud’s self analysis; by using dream interpretation
❖ Biography of Carl Jung and active imagination
- was born on July 26, 1875, in Kesswil, a town on - with these dangerous and painful experiences,
Lake Constance in Switzerland Jung eventually was able to create his unique
- Both religion and medicine were prevalent in his theory of personality
family. - He died on June 6, 1961.
- Jung described his father as a sentimental idealist
with strong doubts about his religious faith.
- He saw his mother as having two separate
❖ Levels of Psyche
dispositions. On one hand, she was realistic,
- the mind has both conscious and unconscious
practical, and warmhearted, but on the other, she
level
was unstable, mystical, clairvoyant, archaic, and
- the most important portion of the unconscious
ruthless.
springs from the distant past of human existence, a
- became aware of two separate aspects of his
concept Jung called the collective unconscious
self: No. 1 and No. 2 personalities
- of lesser importance are the conscious and the
- No. 1 personality was extraverted and in tune
personal unconscious
with the objective world.
- No. 2 personality was introverted and directed
inward toward his subjective world. Conscious
- Jung’s first choice was archeology; but also - sensed by the ego
interested in philology, history, philosophy, natural - Jung’s notion of the ego is more restrictive than
sciences Freud’s
, Ego - the center of consciousness, but not as the - autonomous forces; each with a life and a
core of personality; not the whole personality, but personality of its own
must be completed by the more comprehensive - exist as vague images; only a few have evolved to
self, the center of personality that is largely the point where they can be conceptualized:
unconscious persona, shadow, anima, animus, great mother,
wise old man, hero, and self
Personal Unconscious
- embraces all repressed, forgotten, or Persona
subliminally perceived experiences of one - the side of personality that people show to the
particular individual world
- formed by our individual experiences and is - the term refers to the mask worn by actors in the
therefore unique to each of us early theater
- should not confuse our public face (persona) with
Complexes - the contents of the personal our complete self
unconscious; emotionally toned conglomeration of - overidentification of persona = society’s puppet;
associated ideas unconscious of individuality; blocked from attaining
self-realization
Collective Unconscious - oblivious of one’s persona = you underestimate
- has roots in the ancestral past of the entire the importance of society
species
- most controversial and most distinctive concept Shadow
- physical contents are inherited and pass from - the archetype of darkness and repression
one generation to the next as psychic potential (e.g. - represents those qualities we do not wish to
universal concepts such as God, mother, water, acknowledge but attempt to hide from ourselves
earth); and others
- therefore its contents are more or less the same - first test of courage: strive to know our
for people in all cultures shadow
- they are active and influence a person’s - To come to grips with the darkness within
thoughts, emotions, and actions ourselves is to achieve the “realization of the
- responsible for people’s many myths, legends, shadow.”
and religious beliefs
- refers to humans’ innate tendency to react in a Anima
particular way whenever their experiences - Like Freud, Jung believed that all humans are
stimulate a biologically inherited response psychologically bisexual and possess both a
tendency; requires an individual experience before masculine and a feminine side.
this becomes activated - the feminine side of men
- extremely resistant to consciousness
Archetypes - requires great courage; more difficult than
- ancient or archaic images that derive from the becoming acquainted with shadow
collective unconscious - second test of courage: gaining acquaintance
- similar to complexes but it is generalized with anima
- the psychic counterpart to an instinct - Jung could recognize his anima only after learning
- instinct is defined as unconscious physical to feel comfortable with his shadow
impulse toward action - “woman from within”
- have a biological basis but originate through the - originated from early men’s experiences with
repeated experiences of humans’ early ancestors women—mothers, sisters, and lovers—that
- expresses itself through dreams, fantasies, and combined to form a generalized picture of woman
delusions - A man is especially inclined to project his anima
onto his wife or lover.
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