Chapter 4: Analytical Psychology (Carl Jung)

Psyche

Personality: Latin word for spirit or soul

Diffuse and General Life Energy

He used libido in two ways: Firstly, it posits that libido is everything that governs life

Narrower psychic energy that fuels the work of the personality

He used libido in two ways: Secondly, it is more focused on the psychological aspect of our lives. It posits that the activities that have a high psychic value are activities that use a great deal of psychic energy

Principle of Opposition

There is the existence of opposites or polarities in physical energy (i.e. introversion and extraversion). It suggests that the conflict between polarities is the primary motivator of behavior and generator of energy.

Principle of Equivalence

The physical energy that is expended in bringing about some condition is not lost but rather is shifted to another part of the personality

Principle of Entropy

Refers to the equalization of energy differences. It is the tendency towards balance or equilibrium within the personality

Personality

According to Jung, ____ is no divisible, rather its an integration of the unconcious and concious aspects forming our affect, behavior, and cognitions.

Self

The total sum of the integrated personality; including their qualities (apparent, empirical, observable) and potentials (pre-disposition and is not apparent but is part of the self)

Conscious Growth

Outward flow of libido

Inner Development

Inward flow of libido

Ego Inflation

Living in the conscious and ignoring the potentialities that lies in the unconscious. In other words, when we live based on the things we know about ourselves, we ignore the potential that we have

Psychic Inflation

Missing out on your qualities or the things that are present in you ie when we only deal with our unconscious self

Entropy

The goal of personality is to reach __

Individuation

The process of restoring wholeness to the psyche in adult development. The goal is to move the center of personality from the ego to some midpoint between the ego and the unconscious

Conscious/Ego

It is the center of the consciousness and an individual’s will; “Gatekeeper to consciousness”. It is one’s awareness of oneself and is responsible the carrying out all the normal everyday activities of working life

Ego Inflation

An inflated consciousness is always egocentric and conscious of nothing but its own existence.

Marital Setbacks

The things you know about yourself may not be true

Personal Unconscious

It embraces all repressed, forgotten, or subliminally perceive experiences of the individual. It contains repressed infantile memories and impulses, forgotten events, and experiences originally perceived below the threshold of our consciousness.

Complex

Contents of the personal unconsious or the emotionally toned conglomeration of associated ideas. Largely personal, but may also be partly derived from humanity’s collection experience

Psychic Potentials

Our tendencies to behave

Collective Unconscious

Inherited, contained in human brain structure, and not dependent on personal experience to develop. Shaped by remote evolutionary experiences of the human species and transmitted to each individual through genetic inheritances.

Archetypes

Ancient or archaic images that derive from the collective unconscious. They are emotionally toned conglomeration of associated images but are generalized and derive from the contents of the collective unconscious.

Instinct

Our unconsious physical impulse toward action and the psychic counterpart of archetypes

Persona

It refers to masks worn by actors in the early theater. Reflect the roles that individuals play in the society.

Roles

Expected behavior for certain positions in the society that comes with certain expectations

Personal and Collective Unconscious

Location of our innate tendencies

Shadow`

The archetype of darkness and repression, represents those qualities we do not wish to acknowledge but attempt to hide from ourselves and others.Complete opposite of the ego and considered as the “Gatekeep to the unconsious”.

First Test of Courage

The continous strive to know one’s shadow is known as the ___. To come to grips with the darkness within ourselves is to achieve the “realization of the shadow”

Egocide

Compromising and sacrificing the things in your ego so that you can come to know about your shadows.

Anima

A man’s repressed or underdevelop feminine qualities (man’s inner woman). It is demonstrated as emotionality in males and is interpreted as eros, or the principle of relatedness

Animus

A women’s repressed or undeveloped masculine qualities (woman inner man). Demonstrated as dominance or power in females.

Paternal Logos

Sudden desire for power (e.g. control freak)

Falling in Love

What is the most common and potentially healthy instances of projection of the animus/anima?

Second Test of Courage

Integration happens when you come into terms with the repressed masculine or feminine side

Great Mother

It is a pre existing concept of a mother that is always associated with both positive and negative feelings. Derivative of the anima.

Fertility and Nourishment and Power and Destruction

The great mother represents two opposing forces

Wise Old Man

The archetype for wisdom and meaning. Further symbolizes humane preexisting knowledge of the mysteries of life.

Hero

The archetype that is represented in mythology and legends as a powerful person sometimes part god, who fights against great odds to conquer or vanquish evil in the form of dragons, monsters, serpents, or demons.

Self

It is inherited tendency to move toward growth, perfection, and completion. AKA the archetyoes of the archetypes.

Mandala

It symbolizes the symmetry and the amalgamation of the archetypes and the totality of personality.

Causality

A dynamic aspect of our personality that suggests present events stem from past experiences.

Teleology

A dynamic aspect of our personality that suggests how present events are motivated by goals and aspirations for the future that direct a person’s destiny.

Progression

A dynamic aspect of our personality characterized by how our adaptation to the outside world involves the forward flow of psychic energy. This inclines a person to react consistenly to a given set of environmental conditions.

Regression

A dynamic aspect of our personality characterized by how our adaptation to the inner world relies on backward flow of psychic energy. The necessary backward step in the sucessful attainment of a goal. Commonly exemplifies during mid-life crisis

Attitudes

An aspect of personality which constitutes our predisposition to think, act, or react in a characteristic direction

Tripartite theory of Attitudes

Cognitive, Behavioral, and Affective

Introverted

Psychic energy is always derived from inside. It is oriented towards the inside, becoming more subjective.

Extraverted

Psychic energy is always derived from outside. oriented towards the object, making it objective.

Psychological Functions

The different ways of perceiving both the external real world and the inner world

Rational

A psychological function that is guided by logic and reason (these perceptions will inform you in decision making)

Nonrational

A psychological function that is guided by sensing

Thinking

It is the production of a chain of ideas through logical intellectual activity. It is concerned with objective truth, judgement, and impersonal analysis. The highest form of judgement, but is not the goal.

Introverted Thinking

Subjective Thinking. Free of the opinions of others and internal reasoning that leads to detachment from reality.

Extraverted Thinking

A type of thinking characterized by reliance on concrete thoughts and strict accordance with societal rules: “Rigid and cold”

Introverted Thinking

The type of thinking wherein interpretation is controlled more by internal meaning than objective facts and is concerned with privacy (“stubborn, aloof, arrogant, and inconsiderate”)

Feeling

Evaluation of idea or event. Value judgement which helps you make decisions.

Introverted Feeling

This type of feeling uses subjective perceptions to make value judgements and is capable of deep emotions but avoid any outward expression of it; “withdrawn, cold, self-assured”

Extraverted Feeling

This type of feeling uses objective data to make evaluations and uses external values and widely accepted standards of judgements

Sensing

It is the reception of external stimulus and transmission of that stimuli to perceptual consciousness. It refers to a focus on direct sense experiment, perception of details, and concrete facts.

Extraverted Sensing

A type of sensing that is largely based on objective facts ie our 5 senses

Introverted Sensing

A type of sensing observations that are not real or though internal sights and sounds (e.g. pagiging delulu)

Intuiting

Involving perception beyond the workings of consciousness. comprehend in terms of possibilities, past experiences, future goals, and unconscious processes.

Extraverted Intuition

A type of intuition where we use objective facts by past experiences (e.g. magsuot daw ng red underwear during board exam)

Introverted Intuition

A type of intuitions where we derived based on internal experiences

Thinking

What is the highest form of psychological function?

Self

This is achieved when all of the polor opposites are not in conflict; when an individual reach the perfect balance

Anarchic

A phase in childhood characterized by chaotic and sporadic consciousness. Here lies the existence of the “islands of consciousness”.

Monarchic

A phase in childhood characterized by the development of the ego. This is where logical and verbal thinking begins. Meanwhile, the islands of consciousness become larger, more numerous, and inhabited by the primitive ego.

Dualistic

A phase in childhood characterized by the divition of the ego into objective and subjective

Identity Crisis

A phenomena wherein you have already chosen an identity but you don’t want to part ways with your past identity.

Youth

A period in life characterized by increased activity, maturing sexuality, growing consciousness. And recognition that the problem-free era of childhood is gone forever

Middle life

A phase of life marked by immense potential, yet also defined by self-questioning and facing the unconscious aspects of the self.

Self-Realization or Individuation

The psychological rebirth characterized by the process of becoming an individual or whole person