THEO (JUNG)

jung’s father

idealistic protestant minister

Jung’s mother

strict believer in mysticism and the occult

Basic Tenet of Analytical Psychology

• People are extremely complex being who are a product of both conscious and unconscious personal experiences.

• People are also motivated by inherited remnants stemmed from the collective experiences of their early ancestors.

Libido

It is the creative life force that could be applied to the continuous psychological growth of the person.

Psyche

It is a construct to represent all of the interacting systems within human personality that are needed to account for the mental life and behavior of the person.

Nature and Structure of Personality

Ego, Personal unconscious, Collective unconscious

Ego

One’s conscious mind

Personal unconscious

Perceptions, thoughts, feelings that are easily retrieved; repressed or forgotten individual experiences; organized to complexes.

Collective unconscious

• Universal thought forms of predispositions to respond, expressed as archetypes

• It is transpersonal.

• It is a universal thought form for responding in the environment.

Complexes

an organized group of thoughts, feelings, and memories about a particular concept

Archetypes

• Persona

• Shadow

• Anima

• Animus

Persona

Role human beings play in order to meet the demands of others

Shadow

inferior, evil, and repulsive side of human nature

Anima

feminine archetype in men, including both positive and negative characteristics of the transpersonal female

Animus

• masculine archetype in woman, including both positive and negative characteristics of the transpersonal male

• issues on logical thinking in female (animus), feelings for male (anima)

Great mother

archetype for fertility and destruction

Wise old man

intelligent but deceptive voice of accumulated experience

Hero

unconscious image of a person who conquers an evil who also has a tragic flaw; it is symbolically overcoming the darkness of prehuman unconsciousness.

Self

Completion, wholeness, and perfection

Transcendent Function

process by which a conflict is resolved by bringing opposing forces into balance with each other through understanding

Mandala

symbolic representation of the self; multifaceted, balanced, and harmonious

Attitude

as a predisposition to act or react in a characteristic direction

Extraversion

They are more influenced by their surroundings than by their inner world. They tend to focus on the objective attitude while suppressing the subjective.

Introversion

These people perceive the external world, but they do so selectively and with their own subjective view

Sensing

initial, concrete experiencing of phenomena without the use of reason

Thinking

helps us understand events through the use of reason and logic

Feeling

evaluation of events by judging whether they are good or bad, acceptable, or unacceptable

Intuiting

relying on hunches when dealing with strange situations that have no established facts

Extraverted thinking

they rely heavily on concrete thoughts, but they may also use abstract ideas if these ideas have been transmitted to them.

• Mathematicians

• Accountants

• Engineers

Introverted thinking

people react to external stimuli, but their interpretation of an event is colored more by the internal meaning they bring with them than by the objective facts themselves.

• Inventors

• philosophers

Extraverted feeling

people use objective data to make evaluations.

• Business people

• Politicians

Introverted feeling

people base their value judgments primarily on subjective perceptions rather than objective facts.

• Critics of the various art forms

Extraverted sensing

people perceive external stimuli objectively, in much the same way that these stimuli exist in reality.

• Proofreader

• house painter

• Wine taster

Introverted sensing

people are largely influenced by their subjective sensations of sight, sound, taste, touch, and so forth.

• Portrait artists

Extraverted intuitive

people are oriented toward facts in the external world.

• Inventors

Introverted intuitive

people are guided by unconscious perception of facts that are basically subjective and have little or no resemblance to external reality.

• Prophets

• Religious fanatics

Individuation

system of the individual psyche achieve their fullest degree of differentiation, expression, and development.

Transcendence

integration of the diverse systems of the self toward the wholeness and identity of all humanity

Dream analysis

means of resolving current problems and pointing to directions for healthy development

Method of amplification

technique in which the patient and analyst continue to reassess and reinterpret the same symbols in an attempt to broaden their understanding of them.

Word association test

patients are presented with stimulus words and asked to give responses to them.

Painting therapy

technique used to help patients clarify the various symbols seen in their dreams and increase their understanding of themselves