Jung: analytical psychology

interest in

psychoanalysis and free association

studied

schizophrenia

disagreed with freud on

unconscious: not just repressed, but also positive dynamic mental force; and role of sexuality in development: individuation process

collective unconscious

the precious wisdom of the human spirit embedded in a set of archetypes

Hegel’s concept of dialetics, similar to Hinduism

everything in the universe contains its opposition

applied the principle of

thermodynamics to mental processes

mental energy drained from Persona appears in the

Shadow

wild desire produced by the Shadow manifests itself in the

Persona as sublimate behavior

in contrast to Freudian stages of psychosexual development

individuation: synthesizing personal experiences with those inherited from the human ancestry embedded in the unconscious

ultimate goal of life (similar to Nirvana)

reach an existential sense of self fulfillment or self actualization and prepare for transformation from material to spiritual

as opposed to freudian psychoanalysis

psychosynthesis: promoting the integration of oppositions

like socrates and plato, believed in

the eternal, spiritual universe

instead of id, ego, superego

personal conscious, personal unconscious, collective unconscious

thinking and feeling as

rational functions

sensing and intuiting as

irrational functions

center of the personal conscious is

the ego; replaced by individual self around 40 yrs old

complexes as part of

personal unconscious — revealed through word association test

archetypes as part of

collective unconscious — intuitive images, similar to Kantian categories of the mind

the shadow

intuition of survival

the anima/animus

intuition of gender

the persona

intuition of appearing as some kind of person in front of others

the archetypal self

intuition of existing as a unique individual in front of God and eternity

shadow over persona

extreme spontaneity, egoism, antisocial conduct

persona over shadow

rigid, pretended, phony

overwhelming anima

narcissistic, moody, catty

overwhelming animus

argumentative, hostile, aggressive

collective unconscious as

universal wisdom, socratic universal spirit or cosmic intelligence, similar to roman philosopher plotinus’ view

unique approach to dream analysis

dreams as valuable messages sent by collective unconscious; amplification — the collection of dream messages across sessions