Carl Gustav Jung Flashcards
What is his full name?
Carl Gustav Jung
It emphasizes the exploration of the unconscious and its symbols.
Analytical Psychology
What is the goal of analytical psychology?
Individuation
What is the needed integration for individuation?
Integration and unity of the conscious and unconscious psyche
When was Jung born?
July, 1875
Did Jung have a good relationship with his father?
No, he was reliable but powerless and indecisive
How many personalities die Jung see his mother?
Number 1 personality and the mystical number 2 (Night Personality).
What did he keep in their attic?
A carved doll
What did he dream of when he was three?
Dreamt he was in a cavern and was digging bones
When he reached adolescence what did he realize?
That he has two distinct separations of his personality
Where did he study?
University of Basel
When did he graduate?
1900
When did Jung and Freud meet? And how many hours did they talk?
1907, 13 hours
What fields did they disagree on?
Nature of Libido
Causality of personality
Existence of collective unconscious
What did Jung experience from 1913 to 1917?
An extreme neurotic period - a “confrontation of the unconscious”
What are the levels of the psyche?
Conscious
Personal Unconscious
Collective Unconscious
What is the center of the consciousness?
Ego
Our predisposition or orientation of action and psychic energy.
Attitudes
What are the two psychological types?
Introversion and extroversion
What is the outward flow of psychic energy?
Extraverstion
What is the inward flow of psychic energy?
Introversion
The two psychological functions
Rational Function and Nonrational function
Functions involved in making judgements, evaluation and categorization of our experience.
Rational Function
Makes Judgements based on logic, rationality and objective evaluations.
Thinking
Makes evaluations based on subjective values, emotions, and interpersonal considerations.
Feeling
These functions do not use any process of reason; they accept and perceive experiences but do not evaluate them.
Nonrational functions
Perceives external information through the five senses.
Sensation
Perceives information through possibilities and underlying meanings beyond what is apparent.
Intuition
What is the MBTI?
The Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
This is similar to Freud’s idea of the preconscious.
Personal Unconscious
Are a group or pattern of emotions, concepts, impressions and ideas within our personal unconscious revolving around one specific theme.
Complexes
Group of ideas, impressions, experiences and memories relating to the world or role “mother” that we gathered throughout time.
Mother Complex
They are more assertive; they have high ambitions and good confidence.
Superiority Complex
The people tend to work harder in order to develop their talents and skills and they are eager to learn them.
Perfection Complex
Is the deepest part of the psyche and it is said to contain memories of humanity’s ancestors.
The collective unconscious
Are patterns of behaviors and motifs/themes and experiences from our distant ancestors.
Archetypes
Refers to the mask worn by actors. The public face we wear to present ourselves to others.
The persona
The masculine psyche of females
animus
Feminine psyche of males
anima
Often represented in mythologies as powerful and transformative characters. It is the symbol of the ideal self.
Hero
The archetype of wisdom, knowledge and meaning; aquisition of wisdom throughout time.
The Wise Old Man
Have both positive and negative aspects; nurturing, life-giving, and protective while also being transformative and destructive.
The Great Mother
The archetype of darkness; represents the qualities we do not want to acknowledge and attempt to hide from ourselves and others.
The Shadow
The archetype of archetypes; unifies all of the other, opposing archetypes throughout self-realization.
The Self
There must be a balance between how much our past dictates us to be and how much our future influences our behaviors and actions.
Causality and Teleology
Psychic flow, forward and backwards.
Progression and Regression
These are personalities that are exhibited merely from the reflections of the parents’ personalities.
Childhood
This personality focuses shifts to the external world, and we become more extroverted.
Young Adulthood
This is the most crucial part of a person’s life. And dictate what age.?
Middle Life, 35-40
What is the goal of life according to Jung?
Death
What is the final developmental stage of personality?
Old Life
Is the becoming whole of an individual and the fulfillment of one’s capacities.
Individuation
What are the processes of individuation?
Confrontation of the unconscious
Dethronement of the Persona
Accepting our Shadow
Accepting our Anima/Animus
Trancensdence
What are the Jungian Methods of investigation?
Word Association
Dream Analysis
Active Imagination
Psychotheraphy
Unconscious projection of the patients’ attitudes to the therapist.
Transference
Emotional reaction of the therapist to the transference of their client
Countertransference
