C.G. Jung: The Undiscovered Self Vocabulary Flashcards

A collection of vocabulary flashcards defining key analytical psychology terms used by C.G. Jung in The Undiscovered Self and Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams.

Liber Novus

Jung's Red Book, which chronicles his self-experimentation, the transcription of fantasies from the Black Books, and his attempts to derive general psychological principles from them.

Active imagination

A process of self-experimentation where Jung deliberately gave free rein to his fantasy thinking and carefully noted what ensued.

Black Books

The records where Jung first noted down his fantasies during his process of self-experimentation in the winter of 1913.

The Secret of the Golden Flower

A Taoist alchemical treatise sent to Jung by Richard Wilhelm in 1928, which led Jung to study the parallelism between its imagery and his own mandalas.

Individuation

The process of individual development which Jung studied cross-culturally, focusing on medieval alchemy as a means to present the process in an indirect and allegorical form.

Self-knowledge

Knowledge of the human psyche dependent on individual facts rather than theories, often confused with knowledge of the conscious ego-personality.

Statistical method

A method that reflects an ideal average but can falsify actual truth by removing the unique features and individuality which characterize the absolute reality of the human being.

Use majeste

A phrase used to describe the act of turning a blind eye to scientific knowledge in order to treat and understand a patient as a unique human being.

raison d'etat

The policy of the State that inevitably replaces the moral responsibility of the individual in a mass society.

L'etat c'est moi

A historical phrase attributed to Louis XIV, used to describe the absolute identification of a ruler with the State policy.

Religion

A subjective relationship to metaphysical, extramundane factors that characterize an individual's psychic attitude, providing a point of reference outside of external conditions.

Creed

A confession of faith intended chiefly for the world at large, functioning as a public institution and social matter rather than an intensely personal experience.

rites d}entree et de sortie

Solemn rites and suitable measures of a religious nature performed to render a difficult decision safe and protect against inner demonism.

Archetypes

Archaic vestiges or primordial, inherited patterns of ideas grounded on the instincts that give expression to them.

Symbol

A term, name, or image that hints at a hidden, vague, or unknown meaning and points toward ideas of a transcendent nature.

Sign

An abbreviation or descriptive term, such as UN, UNESCO, or NATO, that conveys a definite meaning if the person knows what it stands for.

Anima

The feminine element in every man, based on the minority of female genes in his biological make-up, which often consists of an inferior kind of relatedness to his surroundings.

participation mystique

A term for unconscious identity where a person feels connected to a bush-soul incarnate in a wild animal or a tree.

Cryptomnesia

A concealed recollection where an author produces an image, sentence, or story from memory while believing it to be their own original invention.

abaissement du niveau mental

A lowering of the psychic energy tension, causing thoughts to lose their definiteness and sink below the threshold of consciousness.

Numinosity

The peculiar feeling of fascination or a spell-like quality that emanates from an archetype or complex.

mungu

A Swahili term derived from a Polynesian root designating an all-pervading divine essence or power of extraordinary efficacy.