Lecture 4. Jung Flashcards
Carl Gustav Jung nationality, birthday and parents
Swiss Psychologist
Born July 26, 1875, in Switzerland to a family where religion and medicine are prevalent, a known maternal practices of mysticism, spiritualism and occult beliefs.
Carl Jung & Siblings
Younger years were lived as an only child (older brother died 3 days post-natal, and younger sister born after 9 years)
Carl Jung Relationship with her mother
Had a stronger attachment to his mother, despite her erratic/unstable qualities and was separated from her at one point, where his distrustfulness was associated
What did he discover after they migrated or changed residence?
A change in the family’s residence brought about his earliest dream stems which led to his concept of collective unconscious.
Carl Jung’s Personality
Described himself of having 2 personalities,
No.1 a reflection of something other than himself, feelings and intuitions (introverted)
No. 2 as not perceptive, but conscious and dominant (extroverted)
Correspondence with Freud
had correspondence with Freud as he establish his own career, and although he did not agree with his theory especially in the interpretation of dreams, Freud had warm personal feelings for Jung, selecting him as the 1st president of the International Psychoanalytic Association.
reason between Freud’s and Jung breakup??HAHAHA and the result
Eventually, Jung’s personal and theoretical differences with Freud led to their falling out and as a farewell
Jung confessed that he had boundless admiration, religious crush and undeniable erotic undertone feelings for Freud.
This break caused him to undergo self-analysis and to have a ‘creative illness’ and was able to complete his theory of personality
Three Levels of Psyche
Conscious, Personal Unconscious, Collective Unconscious
Conscious represents and overemphasis results to
represents images sensed by the ego — the center of consciousness but not the core of personality; secondary to the unconscious self, but must be completed to have a more comprehensive self.
Overemphasis of the consciousness → psychological imbalance
What can be achieved in the conscious and what is its meaning?
Individualization may only be achieved if they are in contact with the conscious world but allow themselves to experience their unconscious self.
Personal Unconscious embraces and includes?
embraces all repressed, forgotten or subliminally perceived experiences of a person.
Includes infantile memories and impulses, forgotten events and experiences originally perceived below the threshold of our consciousness.
Ego for Jung
the center of consciousness but not the core of personality; secondary to the unconscious self, but must be completed to have a more comprehensive self.
Personal Unconscious is based
from personal experiences and therefore unique to everyone else
The contents of personal unconscious
Complex
Complex
emotionally toned collection of associated ideas
Complex as human experiences?
may be personal or collective
Collective Unconscious
has roots in the ancestral past of the entire species.
inherited and passed from one generation to the next as psychic potential — the contents are more or less the same for people in all cultures
Describe contents of Collective Unconscious
contents are not dormant but active and influential to a person’s thoughts, emotions and actions.
Collective Unconscious do not refer to?
do not refer to inherited ideas but rather to humans’ innate tendency to react in a particular way whenever their experiences stimulate a biologically inherited response tendency.
Archetypes
the core of every complex
ancient or archaic images derived from the collective unconscious.
Similarity and Differences in Complexes
Similar to complexes — a collection of emotionally toned associated images but in contrast, archetypes are generalized rather than individualized
Archetypes in Relation to Instinct
different from Instincts (unconscious physical impulse toward action), instead is the psychic counterpart of an instinct, but both help shape personality
How all humans are psychologically bisexual?
All humans are psychologically bisexual (innate personality) possessing both a masculine and feminine side and these originated experiences with men/women to form a generalized picture of a man/woman
If conscious recognition is not given to any component of the psyche, archetypes will?
If conscious recognition is not given to any component of the psyche → will not disappear; forced to manifest itself in the unconscious level at which its effect is uncontrolled and irrational.
