A Dissenting View: Carl Jung Flashcards
Herman Hess
Writer
Wrote Journey to the East
Had psychotherapy with Carl Jung
Keirsey-Bates Test for Temperment
Asks many questions to gauge what sort of temperament an individual has. The results of the test are flexible, but overall in life one should take their temperament into consideration
Extrovert vs. Introvert
Extrovert = Outgoing, social, US society is mostly this, and talkative.
Introvert = Quiet, doesn’t like large groups, often given a bad wrap for being shy.
Sensing vs.Intuitive
Sensing = Realists, percieve world in a factual way, maintain objective view of reality, and are detailed oriented.
Intuitive = Not good with crisis, interested in possibilities of a situation, perceive the world through intuition, and are idealists.
Thinking vs. Feeling
Thinking = Impersonal, seek the truth, explain things in a technical way, law, not fond of emotional types, and natural mathematicians.
Feeling = Personal, subjective reasoning, values, heart controlled, tuned into tone of situation, and can feel tension.
Judging vs. Perceiving
Judging = Want to know whats going on, hard workers, punctual, early, and planners.
Perceiving = Keeping all possibilities open, procrastination, planning and timely matters aren’t important.
Ego
Contains mental functions, plan, attend, rational,
Persona
How one deals with other people, develop persona’s throughout life.
Ex) Teacher, husband, student
“mass” archetype of the horizontal. How we deal with and present ourselves to the world.
Shadow
Unconsious, controls impulsive actions like flipping someone off or overeating.
Psychological Functions and Attitudes
Introvert/Extrovert, Thinking/Feeling, Sensing/Intuitive, Judging/perceiving.
The Intuitive Eye
Eye deep in self. Ancient eye. Able to see in a vertical way.
Skinner World
Busy, organized, actions reinforced.
The Ancient Way
Nature, Silence, and Solitude
Carl Jung
Believed facts and science weren’t always the answer. Jung was driven by discovering his unconscious.
Mythos and Logos
Two distinctive ways humans evolved knowledge and truth.
Mythos
Concerned with timeless in existence, meaningful, not concerned with practical, Looks backwards towards foundations of life, rooted more in unconscious.
Logos
Pragmatic, practical, common sense, and truth.
Horizontal Dimension of Existence
This is where most people are when they are awake. Zooming from place to place, moving forward, learning, doing homework, taking notes, this is BF Skinners world.
This is the realm of Logos
Vertical Dimension of Existence
Cuts accross horizontal, timeless existence, time stops. Realm of meaning, depth, art, poetry, and magic.
This is the realm of Mythos.
Ex) surfing, dancing, art, making love, singing, etc. bring one into the vertical.
The Collective Unconscious
Our minds contain collective wisdom of ancients.
Individuation
Always involved integration of specific structures of personality. First two are established in the first quarter of life (Persona and ego)
Personality Archetypes
Deep patterns that exist, dry river beds e pour our knowledge into.