Analytical Psychology of Carl Gustav Jung

Flashcards covering the foundational concepts of Carl Jung's Analytical Psychology, including archetypes, stages of development, and psychic principles.

Carl Gustav Jung ($1875-1961$)

A Swiss psychologist born on $July 26, 1875$, whose first choice of profession was acheology and who established the school of Analytical Psychology.

Analytical Psychology

The school of thought established by Carl Gustav Jung.

Libido (Jungian Perspective)

A generalized source of psychic energy or "life energy" motivating a range of behaviors beyond just sexual gratification.

Personal Unconscious

The first layer of the unconscious which contains temporarily forgotten information and repressed memories specific to the individual.

Complex

A collection of thoughts, feelings, attitudes, and memories that focus on a single concept.

Collective Unconscious

A layer of the unconscious containing emotional toned experiences inherited from ancestors, acting as a reservoir of cumulative experiences of past generations.

Virtual Image

A term Jung used in $1953$ (p. $188$) to describe the inborn form of the world inherited by an individual at birth.

Persona

The outward personality or "mask" adopted by a person in response to social convention and tradition, intended for public display.

Archetype

The structural component of the collective unconscious consisting of universal images, thoughts, ideas, or symbols that contain significant emotion.

Shadow

The archetype representing the animal side of human nature and inherited instincts, associated with Freud’s concept of the "ID."

Anima

The feminine archetype found in men, originated from early men’s experiences with mothers, sisters, and lovers.

Animus

The masculine archetype found in women, responsible for thinking and opinion.

Great Mother

An archetype representing fertility and nourishment (positive) as well as power and destruction (negative).

Wise Old Man

The archetype symbolizing wisdom, meaning, and pre-existing knowledge of the mysteries of life, often personified as a king or magician.

Hero

A powerful person from mythology who fights against great odds to defeat evil, but often possesses a tragic flaw.

Self

The "archetype of archetypes" representing completeness, wholeness, and perfection, geared toward self-realization.

Mandala

The ultimate symbol of the "Self" archetype representing unity and totality.

Yin and Yang

Two principles from Chinese philosophy representing negative, dark, feminine (yin) and positive, bright, masculine (yang) forces.

Self-realization

Also known as individuation, the process of becoming a whole person by overcoming fears of the unconscious and mastering the self.

Introversion

An attitude oriented toward the inner, subjective world.

Extraversion

An attitude oriented toward the external, objective world.

Thinking

A rational activity that creates a chain of ideas, which can be either introverted or extraverted.

Feeling

A descriptive process of evaluating or valuing an idea or event.

Sensation

The reception of physical stimuli and its transmission to perceptual consciousness.

Intuiting

A kind of perception that works outside of usual conscious processes, independent of absolute elementary facts.

Progression

The forward flow of psychic energy involving adaptation to the outside environment.

Regression

The backward flow of psychic energy involving adaptation to the inner environment.

Actual Force

A kind of psychic energy manifested in wishing, willing, feeling, attending, and striving.

Potential Force

A kind of psychic energy manifested in dispositions, aptitudes, tendencies, and inclinations.

Psychic Values

A measure of the intensity of psychic energy exerted toward a specific element of personality.

Constellating Power of a Complex

the ability of a complex’s nuclear element to bring a number of groups of items into association.

Complex Indicators

Disturbances of behavior, such as a slip of the tongue, that indicate the presence of a complex.

Intensity of Emotional Expression

A method of assessment measuring the strength of a complex through physical reactions like rapid heartbeat or deeper breathing.

Principle of Equivalence

The principle stating that if energy is used in one condition, that same amount of energy appears elsewhere in the system.

Principle of Entropy

The principle stating that a weak system attempts to improve its status at the expense of a strong system, creating tension.

Principle of Synchronicity

The notion that a thought can cause the materialization of the thing thought about, where the present is also determined by the future.

Anarchic Phase

A substage of childhood characterized by chaotic, sporadic consciousness known as "Islands of Consciousness."

Monarchic Phase

A substage of childhood characterized by the development of the ego, logical thinking, and the child referring to themselves in the third person.

Dualistic Phase

A substage of childhood where the ego acts as a perceiver categorized into objective and subjective, and the child uses the first person.

Conservation Principle

The desire of youth to live in the past to avoid the problems of the present period.

Middle Life

The stage of development starting approximately at $35$ to $40$ years old, where one must find new meaning and surrender the lifestyle of youth.

Old Age

The "evening of life" involving the diminution of consciousness and, for some, the fear of death.