Analytical Psych. (4)

Question 1

What is the goal of Analytical Psychology?

Answer 1

Bringing the conscious and unconscious together to help people feel balanced and whole.

Question 2

What are the three levels of psychic functioning?

Answer 2

The conscious mind, the collective unconscious, and the personal unconscious.

Question 3

What are the components of the conscious mind?

Answer 3

Ego
Persona
Two Attitudes
Four Functions

Question 4

What are the two attitudes?

Answer 4

Introversion and Extraversion

Question 5

What are the four functions?

Answer 5

Thinking, Feeling, Sensation, Intuition

Question 6

What makes up the Unconscious Mind?

Answer 6

The Collective Unconscious and the Personal Unconscious

Question 7

What makes up the Collective Unconscious?

Answer 7

Archetypes
Self
Anima/Animus
Shadow
Other Images, Myths, Symbols

Question 8

What makes up the Personal Unconscious?

Answer 8

Repressed or Forgotten Memories
Complexes
Archetypes
Shadow

Question 9

What is the ego, according to Jung?

Answer 9

The center of the conscious mind. It gives us our sense of reality and identity. It’s formed of perceptions, memories, thoughts, and feelings that are within our awareness.

Question 10

What is the persona?

Answer 10

The idealized side of ourselves that we show to the outside world, the face of the collective psyche.

Question 11

What are the two levels of response regarding the four functions?

Answer 11

Superior and inferior

Question 12

What is psychic energy?

Answer 12

The energy of the psyche that develops from desire, motivation, thinking, and looking,

Question 13

Describe the collective unconscious.

Answer 13

The storehouse of latent memory traces inherited from the past that predispose people to react to the world in certain ways.

Question 14

What are archetypes?

Answer 14

Unconscious universal energies that result from repeated human experience and predispose people to view the world and organize their perceptions in particular ways. Innate and transmitted through cultures and generations.

Question 15

Where is the Self primarily located and how can it emerge?

Answer 15

Primarily located in the collective unconscious. Can emerge through dreams, symbols, perceptions, and images.

Question 16

What is the anima?

Answer 16

The psychological feminine component in a man.

Question 17

What is the animus?

Answer 17

The psychological masculine component in a woman.

Question 18

What is the shadow and where does it manifest?

Answer 18

Can be manifested in both the collective and the personal unconscious. It is our dark side that we do not wish to acknowledge, so we attempt to hide it from ourselves and others.

Question 19

What is the difference between the shadow and the persona?

Answer 19

The persona seeks social acceptance and approval, while the shadow embraces the socially undesirable.

Question 20

What are complexes and where are they located? Provide an example.

Answer 20

Located in the personal unconscious. They have an archetype at their core that has attracted a related and emotionally charged collection of feelings, thoughts, perceptions, and memories. The most well-known complexes are the Oedipus complex and the Electra complex.

Question 21

What is individuation?

Answer 21

A lifelong process in which a person becomes a psychological individual and develops a whole personality

Question 22

What determines psychological health, according to Jung?

Answer 22

The balance of opposites (polarities)

Question 23

What is the principle of equivalence?

Answer 23

Energy lost in one system will reappear in another system, with the sum total of energy remaining constant.

Question 24

What is the principle of entropy?

Answer 24

The libido (defined broadly by Jung as total psychic energy) tends to flow from a more intense to a less intense component to prevent the overload of energy in any one area.

Question 25

What are the two dimensions that Jung attributes personality differences to?

Answer 25

The four functions (the typical ways in which people take in and understand internal and external stimuli)
The attitudes( the characteristic directions of their libidos)

Question 26

List the four functions.

Answer 26

Thinking
Feeling
Sensation
Intuition

Question 27

How does the unconscious compensate for the dominance of the superior function?

Answer 27

Encourages the opposite tendencies.

Question 28

What are the four stages of Jungian counseling?

Answer 28

1. Catharsis and emotional cleansing
2. Elucidation
3. Education
4. Transformation

Question 29

Name some limitations of Jungian’s analytical psychology.

Answer 29

Ill-defined and complex concepts
Limited interventions
Lengthy and not for crises
Requires extensive training

Question 30

Who did Jung influence?

Answer 30

Existentialists,
Humanists,
Gestalt therapists,
Transpersonal therapists

Question 31

What is syncronicity?

Answer 31

The idea that nothing happens without having meaning and purpose

Question 32

Who is best suited for Jungian analytical psychology?

Answer 32

Method for achieving personal growth and self awareness for people who feel unfulfilled.
For people who are already fairly healthy but who believe that greater access to their spiritual dimension and unconscious can bring them more integrated, balanced, and fulfilling lives.