M1. Lesson 4: Analytical Psychology

Question 1

What is the personal unconscious?

Answer 1

The personal unconscious is formed by the repressed experiences of one particular individual and is the reservoir of the complexes.

Question 2

What is the collective unconscious?

Answer 2

Humans inherit a collective unconscious that helps shape many of their attitudes, behaviors, and dreams.

Question 3

What are archetypes?

Answer 3

Archetypes are contents of the collective unconscious – they are the highly developed contents of our collective unconscious.

Question 4

What are the typical archetypes?

Answer 4

Typical archetypes include persona, shadow, anima, animus, great mother, wise old man, hero, and self.

Question 5

What is the persona?

Answer 5

The persona represents the side of personality that people show to the rest of the world. Psychologically healthy people recognize their persona but do not mistake it for the whole of personality.

Question 6

What is the anima?

Answer 6

The anima is the feminine side of men and is responsible for many of their irrational moods and feelings.

Question 7

What is the animus?

Answer 7

The animus, the masculine side of women, is responsible for irrational thinking and illogical opinions in women.

Question 8

What is the great mother?

Answer 8

The great mother is the archetype of fertility and destruction.

Question 9

What is the wise old man?

Answer 9

The wise old man archetype is the intelligent but deceptive voice of accumulated experience.

Question 10

What is the hero?

Answer 10

The hero is the unconscious image of a person who conquers an evil foe but who also has a tragic flaw.

Question 11

What is the self?

Answer 11

The self is the archetype of completeness, wholeness, and perfection.

Question 12

What are the two attitudes (in Analytical Psychology) and what can they combine with?

Answer 12

The two attitudes of introversion and extraversion can combine with any one or more of the four functions—thinking, feeling, sensation, and intuition—to produce eight basic types.

Question 13

What do a healthy middle life and old age depend on?

Answer 13

A healthy middle life and old age depend on proper solutions to the problems of childhood and youth.

Question 14

What do Jungian therapists use?

Answer 14

Jungian therapists use dream analysis and active imagination to discover the contents of patients’ collective unconscious.

Question 15

Who established the theory of Analytical Psychology?

Answer 15

An early colleague of Freud, Carl Gustav Jung broke from orthodox psychoanalysis to establish a separate theory of personality called analytical psychology

Question 16

What is Analytical Psychology?

Answer 16

Analytical Psychology rests on the assumption that occult phenomena can and do influence the lives of everyone.

Question 17

What did Jung believe?

Answer 17

Jung believed that each of us is motivated not only by repressed experiences but also by certain emotionally toned experiences inherited from our ancestors.

Question 18

What do the inherited images of our ancestors make up of according to Jung?

Answer 18

These inherited images make up what Jung called the collective unconscious.

Question 19

What does the collective unconscious include?

Answer 19

The collective unconscious includes those elements that we have never experienced individually but which have come down to us from our ancestors.

Question 20

What are the highly developed elements of the collective unconscious?

Answer 20

Some elements of the collective unconscious become highly developed and are called archetypes.

Question 21

What is the most inclusive archetype?

Answer 21

The most inclusive archetype is the notion of self-realization, which can be achieved only by attaining a balance between various opposing forces of personality.

Question 22

How can the archetype of self-realization be achieved?

Answer 22

It can be achieved only by attaining a balance between various opposing forces of personality.

Question 23

How can one describe Jung’s theory?

Answer 23

Thus, Jung’s theory is a compendium of opposites.

Question 24

How is Jung’s theory a compendium of opposites?

Answer 24

People are both introverted and extraverted; rational and irrational; male and female; conscious and unconscious; and pushed by past events while being pulled by future expectations.