Carl Jung: Analytic Psychology

Question 1

What did Jung notice in his mother early on? (2)

Answer 1

-part 1: kind, classic motherly type
part 2: harsh, kinda her shadow self

Question 2

What was 1 and 2 for Carl himself?

Answer 2

1: the student
2: the wise old man

Question 3

What was the most basic disagreement between Jung and Freud?

Answer 3

-that Freud uses the terms libido (which was a very socially scary word at the time) and has more of a negative view of people, thats why Jung is sometimes seen as the father of positive psychology

Question 4

What did Jung say about spirituality?

Answer 4

-you cannot be a fully formed person without spirituality

Question 5

What years were the dark period for Jung and why was it called this? (2)

Answer 5

-1914-1917
-mentally sick, psychologically struggling and comes up with theories after this

Question 6

What did Jung call the psyche?

Answer 6

-the total personality

Question 7

What is the total personality energized by?

Answer 7

-the libido, which is the biological force or energy

Question 8

Where does the libido come from?

Answer 8

-the principle of opposites, every psychic component has an opposite

Question 9

What are the three levels of the psyche? (3)

Answer 9

-conscious (ego)
-personal unconscious
-collective unconscious

Question 10

What is the ego? What does it include? (2)

Answer 10

-centre of consciousness
-includes the thoughts, memories, and perceptions of which we are aware

Question 11

What is the personal unconscious? What is broken into? (2)

Answer 11

-contains memories, experiences, and emotions that have been repressed or forgotten but can still influence behavior.
-broken into complexes

Question 12

What are complexes?

Answer 12

-clusters of emotions, thoughts, memories, and perceptions that are organized around a common theme

Question 13

What is Freud’s equivalent to a personal unconscious

Answer 13

-preconscious and unconscious put together

Question 14

What is the collective unconscious?

Answer 14

-it is universal across cultures and is ancestral experiences biologically in us, including pre human memory

Question 15

What does the collective unconscious contain?

Answer 15

-archetypes

Question 16

What are archetypes? Where are representations of archetypes found? (2)

Answer 16

-an inherited predisposition to respond in a certain way and is common to all human beings (unlike complexes)
-found in art, literature and religion

Question 17

What are the 5 common archetypes? (5)

Answer 17

-persona
-anima
-animus
-shadow
-self

Question 18

Describe the persona.

Answer 18

-mask you put on to go into public, your public self

Question 19

Describe the anima?

Answer 19

-feminine part of male psyche, allows men to have feminine traits

Question 20

Describe the animus?

Answer 20

-the male part of the female psyche

Question 21

Describe the shadow.

Answer 21

-very similar to the id, manifests itself in aggression, eroticism, and even self-destruction

Question 22

What is the self considered?

Answer 22

-the centre of personality, or the whole of personality

Question 23

What is the goal for people?

Answer 23

-to become the self as this unites and harmonizes other archetypes

Question 24

What does personal growth move towards?

Answer 24

-self realization

Question 25

What is self realization? What does it require? Is it destiny? (3)

Answer 25

-the achievement of a **unified self,** an **integrated whole person** -balance between all components of the psyche -yes

Question 26

What two processes are needed to grow towards self-realization? (2)

Answer 26

-individuation -transcendent function

Question 27

What is individuation?

Answer 27

-identifying your different parts, the opposing aspects of yourself

Question 28

What is transcendent function?

Answer 28

-bringing the different part of yourself together for balance

Question 29

Do many people achieve self-realization?

Answer 29

-no, few people achieve this and maintain stuck in ego

Question 30

What are other archetypes to know? (5)

Answer 30

-hero -wise old man -mother -eternal child -magician/trickster

Question 31

What is the hero archetype?

Answer 31

-overcomes evil in some way, rescues, self-sacrifices and always has a critical flaw

Question 32

What is the wise old man?

Answer 32

-has key wisdom needed to live life

Question 33

What is the mother archetype?

Answer 33

-positive and negative characteristics, fertility and nourishment but also power

Question 34

What is the eternal child?

Answer 34

-small being or child with extraordinary powers

Question 35

What is the magician/trickster archetype?

Answer 35

-creative, cunning and manipulative

Question 36

What is the structure of Jung's theory analytic psychology?

Answer 36

-conscious, personal unconscious and collective unconscious

Question 37

How does development occur in Jung's theory?

Answer 37

-self-realization through individuation and transcendent function

Question 38

What causes disorder according to Jung?

Answer 38

-when there is an imbalance in parts of the psyche

Question 39

What are the two psychological types we start with according to Jung?

Answer 39

-introversion vs. extraversion

Question 40

Describe Jung's introversion attitude type.

Answer 40

-focus on inner world, fantasy, imaginative

Question 41

Describe Jung's extraversion attitude type.

Answer 41

-focus on external world, realistic, practical

Question 42

Name the four sets of function Jung added. (4)

Answer 42

-thinking vs. feeling -sensing vs. intuitive

Question 43

What is meant by thinking and feeling? (2)

Answer 43

thinking-assessment of truth feeling-assessment of value

Question 44

What is meant by sensing vs intuiting? (2)

Answer 44

sensing-conscious sensory perception intuitive-perception beyond consciousness

Question 45

How do you make 8 psychological types according to Jung?

Answer 45

-combine introversion, extraversion, sensing, intuition, feeling and thinking

Question 46

What was the fourth function added after Jung to the psychological type?

Answer 46

-judging and perceiving

Question 47

Is Jung's theory determinism or free choice?

Answer 47

-both

Question 48

Is Jung's theory pessimistic or optimistic?

Answer 48

-both

Question 49

Is Jung's theory past or future focused?

Answer 49

-both

Question 50

Is Jung's theory conscious or unconscious?

Answer 50

-both

Question 51

Is Jung's theory biological or social?

Answer 51

-biological

Question 52

Is Jung's theory consistent or variable?

Answer 52

-consistent

Question 53

Is Jung's theory unique or similar?

Answer 53

-similar

Question 54

How well does Jung's theory work as a scientific theory?

Answer 54

-low, it doesn't do well overall

Question 55

Which scientific aspects does Jun's theory get a score of moderate? (3)

Answer 55

-generating research -organizing knowledge -guide practical action

Question 56

What scientific aspects does Jung's theory get a score of low? (2)

Answer 56

-maintain internal consistency -maintain parsimony

Question 57

Does Jung's theory allow for falsifiability?

Answer 57

-very low