Theories of Personality: Carl Jung

Carl Jung

Analytical psychology

personality

unlike freud, it is a complex network of interacting systems that strive towards harmony.

psyche

thoughts, feelings, sensations, whishes and so forth.

libido

appetite for sexuality, hunger, striving, desiring, willing, seeks balance and moves person forward to self realization.

ego

conscious mind

personal unconscious

anything not present in our conscious

collective unconscious

resivor of knowledge in a particular species. we are all born with this

archetype

universal thought form or predisposition to respond to the world in certain ways.

persona

social role that one assumes in society

shadow

encompasses unsocial thoughts, feelings, and behaviors and characteristics we do not want to accept.

anima

feminine side of male psyche

animus

masculine side of female psyche

other archetypes

self

great-mother

wise old man

hero

trickster

child-god

hermaphrodite

extraversion

more focused on what is going on around them, world, people...

introversion

prefer the internal world of thoughts, feelings...

4 functions

sensing, intuition, thinking, feeling

self realization

"psychic birth" does not show until adolescence

individuation

systems of the individual psyche,achieve their fullest degree of differentiation, expression and development

transcendence

integration of the diverse systems of the self toward the goal of wholeness and identity with all of humanity

compensatory function

dreams represents an effort by the person to prepare for future events. they are efforts to complement the patients conscious side and to speak for the unconscious.

myers briggs type indicator

implements Jung's theory

amplification

used when interpreting dreams, one focuses repeatedly on the element and gives multiple associations to it.

the self

an archetype that leads people to search for ways of maximizing the development of their potential.

sensing

Initial, concrete experiencing without reason(thinking) or evaluation(feeling)

thinking

understand events through the use of reason and logic.

feeling

gives us an evaluation of events by judging wheter they are good or bad

intuiting 

rely on hunches whenever we have to deal with strange situations with no established facts. 

psychic energy

energy that flows continuously from consciousness to unconsciousness and back