Carl Jung's Analytical Psychology and Personality Theory

Carl Jung

Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst, founder of analytical psychology.

Autobiography

Personal account reflecting Jung's life experiences and insights.

Libido

General life energy or specific psychic energy in personality.

Psychic Energy

Energy driving psychological activities like thinking and feeling.

Opposites Principle

Behavior motivated by conflict between opposing wishes or feelings.

Equivalence Principle

Energy conservation applied to psychic events in personality.

Neurotic Episode

Severe psychological disturbance affecting Jung's reality perception.

Eugen Bleuler

Psychiatrist who coined the term schizophrenia; Jung's mentor.

Sigmund Freud

Psychoanalyst who influenced Jung but later parted ways.

Psychiatry

Field of medicine specializing in mental disorders and treatment.

University of Basel

Institution where Jung studied medicine and psychiatry.

Dream Analysis

Exploration of dreams to understand unconscious motivations.

Inner Growth

Focus on individual development over interpersonal relationships.

Personal Confession

Jung's subjective approach to understanding personality.

Attic Solitude

Jung's retreat to solitude for self-reflection and creativity.

Fainting Spells

Health issue that kept Jung out of school for six months.

Psychic Value

Importance of an idea or feeling based on energy investment.

Self-Analysis

Jung's method of exploring his unconscious through dreams.

Marital Problems

Jung's parents' issues influenced his view of relationships.

Emotional Instability

Jung's mother's erratic behavior affected his perception of women.

Isolation

Jung's feeling of being cut off from the external world.

Sexual Experience

Jung's encounter at 18 influenced his relationships with men.

Conscious Reality

External world perceived through awareness and rational thought.

Personal Interests

Jung preferred self-study over formal education in school.

Attainment of Power

High motivation leads to significant investment of psychic energy.

Psychological Activities

Processes like perceiving, thinking, feeling, and wishing.

Equivalence

The new area to which energy has shifted must have an equal psychic value; that is, it should be equally desirable, compelling, or fascinating.

Principle of Entropy

Refers to the equalization of energy differences, where heat flows from a hotter object to a colder object until they are in equilibrium at the same temperature.

Ego

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

Extraversion

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

Introversion

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

Extraverted Thinking

Logical, objective, dogmatic.

Introverted Thinking

More interested in ideas than in people.

Extraverted Feeling

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

Introverted Feeling

Reserved, undemonstrative, yet capable of deep emotion.

Extraverted Sensing

Outgoing, pleasure-seeking, adaptable.

Introverted Sensing

Outwardly detached, expressing themselves in aesthetic pursuits.

Extraverted Intuiting

Creative, able to motivate others and to seize opportunities.

Introverted Intuiting

More concerned with the unconscious than with everyday reality.

Thinking

Logical intellectual activity that produces a chain of ideas.

Extraverted Thinking Type

Lives strictly in accordance with society's rules, tends to repress feelings and emotions, and is dogmatic in thoughts and opinions.

Introverted Thinking Type

Does not get along well with others, focuses on thought rather than feelings, and has poor practical judgment.

Feeling

The process of evaluating an idea or event, also described as valuing.

Extraverted Feeling Type

Represses the thinking mode, highly emotional, conforms to traditional values, and is unusually sensitive to the opinions of others.

Introverted Feeling Type

Represses rational thought, capable of deep emotion but avoids outward expression, and appears withdrawn and cold.

Sensation

The function that receives physical stimuli and transmits them to perceptual consciousness.

Extraverted Sensing Type

Focuses on pleasure and happiness, strongly oriented toward the real world, and adaptable to different situations.

Introverted Sensing Type

Appears passive, calm, and detached, expressing themselves in art or music.

Intuition

Involves perception beyond the workings of consciousness, more creative than sensing.

Extraverted Intuiting Type

Finds success in business and politics due to a keen ability to exploit opportunities.

Introverted Intuiting Type

Focuses so intently on intuition that they have little contact with reality, often seen as visionaries.

Personal Unconscious

A reservoir of material that was once conscious but has been forgotten or suppressed.

Complex

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

Collective Unconscious

Deepest psyche level with inherited human experiences.

Archetypes

Recurring themes from collective unconscious experiences.

The Self

Unity of conscious and unconscious mind.

The Shadow

Repressed aspects of personality, both positive and negative.

Persona

Social mask differing from true self.

Anima

Feminine aspects within a man's psyche.

Animus

Masculine aspects within a woman's psyche.

The Hero

Symbolizes courage and self-sacrifice in transformation.

The Wise Old Man/Woman

Mentor figure representing wisdom and guidance.

The Trickster

Challenges norms through disruption and chaos.

The Mother

Embodies nurturing, care, and unconditional love.

Ego Development

Awareness of self versus others in childhood.

Individuation

Integration of conscious and unconscious personality facets.

Formation of the Ego

Initial self-awareness and identity development.

Development of the Persona

Creation of social identity during growth.

Confrontation with the Shadow

Facing hidden aspects of personality in midlife.

Integration of Anima/Animus

Balancing feminine and masculine aspects for harmony.

Achieving the Self

Realizing psychological wholeness and balance.

Wisdom and Spirituality

Focus on understanding in later life.

Word Association Test

Projective technique responding to stimulus words.

Symptom Analysis

Interpreting symptoms through free associations.

Freud's Id

Represents primal desires and hidden instincts.

Freud's Ego

Mediates between desires and moral standards.

Freud's Superego

Internalized norms guiding moral behavior.

Psychological Health

Condition resulting from personality integration.

Transformation Journey

Process of overcoming obstacles for personal growth.

Balance and Integration

Achieving harmony between different psyche aspects.

Childhood Development

Initial stages of ego and identity formation.

Adolescence Focus

External adaptation to education, career, and family.

Middle Age Transition

Shift from external to internal personality focus.