CARL JUNG - ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY

Flashcards about the biography of Carl Jung, Analytical Psychology, Psychic Energy, basic principles, systems of personality, attitudes and functions, psychological types, the unconscious, archetypes, individuation, the development of personality, methods of investigation/assessment and Jung's description of human nature.

Where and when was Carl Jung born?

Born in 1875 in Kesswil, Switzerland.

What was the profession of Jung's father, Johann Paul Jung?

Minister in the Swiss Reformed Church.

What effect did the early separation from his mother have on Carl Jung?

That the separation deeply troubled young Carl, making him distrustful of the word 'love' and associating 'woman' with unreliability.

What two sides of personality was Jung obsessed with understanding?

Inner world of subjective experience and the unconscious and outer world of contact with other people and material objects.

What assumption does Analytical Psychology rest on?

Occult phenomena can and do influence the lives of everyone.

What are Occult Phenomena?

Phenomena that cannot be explained simply by science or even on the religion, some sort of mystical, magical or supernatural.

Besides repressed experiences, what else did Jung believe motivates us?

Experiences inherited from our ancestors.

What are the two ways Jung used the concept of libido or psychic energy?

A diffuse and general life energy and a narrower psychic energy that fuels the work of the personality, the PSYCHE.

What is the Principle of Opposites?

Conflict between opposing processes or tendencies is necessary to generate psychic energy.

What is the Principle of Equivalence?

The continuing redistribution of energy within a personality.

What is the Principle of Entropy?

A tendency toward balance or equilibrium within the personality; the ideal is an equal distribution of psychic energy over all structures of the personality.

What is the Ego?

The center of consciousness, the part of the psyche concerned with perceiving, thinking, feeling, and remembering.

What is Introversion?

An attitude of the psyche characterized by an orientation toward one’s own thoughts and feelings.

What is Extraversion?

An attitude of the psyche characterized by an orientation toward the external world and other people.

Which psychological functions are grouped together as non-rational functions?

Sensing and Intuiting.

What does the Sensing function do?

Reproduces an experience through the senses the way a photograph copies an object.

Which psychological functions are considered rational functions?

Thinking and Feeling.

What are the characteristics of the Extraverted Thinking Type?

Logical, objective, dogmatic; lives strictly in accordance with society’s rules.

What are the characteristics of the Extraverted Feeling Type?

Emotional, sensitive, sociable; More typical of women than men.

What are the characteristics of the Extraverted Sensing Type?

Outgoing, pleasure-seeking, adaptable; Focuses on pleasure and happiness and on seeking new experiences.

What are the characteristics of the Extraverted Intuiting Type?

Creative, able to motivate others and seize opportunities.

What are the characteristics of the Introverted Thinking Type?

More interested in ideas than in people; Does not get along well with others and has difficulty communicating ideas.

What are the characteristics of the Introverted Feeling Type?

Reserved, undemonstrative, yet capable of deep emotion.

What are the characteristics of the Introverted Sensing Type?

Outwardly detached, expressing themselves in aesthetic pursuit; Appears passive, calm, and detached from the everyday world.

What are the characteristics of the Introverted Intuiting Type?

More concerned with the unconscious than with everyday reality.

What does the term Personal Unconscious embrace?

All repressed, forgotten, or subliminally perceived experiences from one individual.

What are Complexes?

A core or pattern of emotions, memories, perceptions, and wishes organized around a common theme.

What is the Collective Unconscious?

Deepest and least accessible level of the psyche containing the accumulation of inherited experiences of human and pre human species.

What are Archetypes?

Images of universal experiences contained in the collective unconscious.

What is the Persona archetype?

The public face or role a person presents to others.

What is the Shadow archetype?

The archetype of darkness and repression, representing the qualities that we do not wish to acknowledge but attempt to hide from ourselves and others.

What is the Anima archetype?

The feminine side of men and originates in the collective unconscious as an archetype and remains extremely resistant to consciousness.

What is the Animus archetype?

The masculine side of women and originates in the collective unconscious as an archetype that, too, is resistant to consciousness.

What is the Great Mother archetype?

Represents the opposing forces of fertility and nourishment on the one hand and power and destruction on the other.

What is the Wise Old Man archetype?

Wisdom and meaning and symbolizes human’s pre- existing knowledge of the mysteries of life.

What is the Hero archetype?

A powerful person, sometimes part god, and one who fights evil.

What is the Self archetype?

Unity, integration, and harmony of the total personality; Striving toward that wholeness — ultimate goal of life.

What does Individuation involve?

Becoming an individual, fulfilling one's capacities, and the developing oneself.

What happens during the Childhood stage of personality development?

Ego development begins when the child distinguishes between self and others.

What happens during the Puberty to Young Adulthood stage of personality development?

Adolescents must adapt to the growing demands of reality. The focus is external, on education, career, and family. The conscious is dominant.

What happens during the Middle Age stage of personality development?

A period of transition when the focus of the personality shifts from external to internal to balance the unconscious with the conscious.

What are the methods of investigation/assessment?

Word Association Test, Dream Analysis and Symptom Analysis.

What is Word Association Test?

A projective technique in which a person responds to a stimulus word with whatever word comes to mind.

What is Dream Analysis?

Technique involving the interpretation of dreams to uncover unconscious conflicts.

What is Symptom Analysis?

Focuses on the symptoms reported by the patient and attempts to interpret the patient’s free associations to those symptoms.

What are the different aspects of Jung's description of human nature?

Free will vs Determinism, Nature vs Nurture, Past experiences vs Present experiences, Uniqueness (until middle age) vs Universality (after middle age), Equilibrium vs Growth Optimism vs Pessimism.