Adler and Jung Flashcards
The sole dynamic force behind people’s behavior
Striving for success and superiority
- Unifies personality and makes all behavior meaningful
- product of creative power
Final goal
Feel inferior and attempt to overcome these feelings through natural tendency to move toward completion
Striving force as compensation
People’s expectations of the future
Fictions
People are motivated not by what is true but by their subjective perceptions of what is true
Fictional final goal/fictionalism
Disturbance of one part of the body cannot be viewed in isolation, it affects the entire person
Organ dialect
Value of all human activity; feeling of oneness with humanity; originates from mother-child relationship
Social interest
Flavor of a person’s life; product of interaction of heredity, environment, and person’s creative power
Style of life
A dynamic concept implying movement and this movement is the most salient characteristic of life; ability to freely chooae
Creative power
The most important factor in maladjustment
Lack of social interest
Characteristics of maladjustment
- setting goals too high
- have their own private world
- has a dogmatic style of life
Accompanied by exaggerated feelings of inferiority; overcompensate inadequacy
Exaggerated physical deficiencies
Heart of most neuroses
Pampered style of life
Suspicious; unable to cooperate for the common welfare
Neglected style of life
Protect exaggerated self-esteem against public disgrace; largely conscious
Safeguarding tendencies
Undervalue other achievement and overvalue own
Depreciatiob
Means of hurting ppl who are close to them
Self-accusation
Overemphasize being manly; results from cultural and social influences
Masculine protest
Method of determining style of life; shaped by present style of life
Early recollections
Disguised to deceive dreamer and must be interpreted by another person
Dreams
Goal of adlerian therapy
Enhance courage, lessen inferiority complex, enhance social interest
Ancient or archaic images that derive from collective unconscious
Archetypes
Main source of archetypap material
Dreams
Archetype of archetypes; unites other archetypes thru self-realization
Self
Adaptation to the external world and the forward flow of psychic energy
Progression
Adaptation to the inner world and backward flow of psychic energy
Regression
Turning inward of psychic energy w/ an orientation toward the subjective
Introversion
Turning outward of psychic energy with an orientation toward the objective
Extraversion
Stage: Sporadic consciousness, chaotic
Anarchic phase
Development of ego and begnning of logical and verbal thinking
Monarchic phase
Ego is divided into subjective and objective; aware of their existence as separate individs
Dualistic phase
A period of increased activity, maturing sexuality, growing consciousness
Youth
Tendency to cling to narrow consciousness of childhood thus, avoiding probs pertinent to present life; happens in Youth stage
Conservative principle
Period of tremendous potential; most important stage
Middle life
Fear of death; many suffer from backward orientation at this stage
Old age
Method of uncovering feeling-toned complexes
Word association test
Technique requires the patient to concentrate on a single image until that image begins to appear in a different form; reveal archetypal images from unconscious
Active imagination
Jungian psychotherapy
Therapist must be transformed first before treating others
-transference first 3 stages of therapy
