Carl Jung Flashcards
Libido
Broad and generalized form of psychic energy
Psyche
Term for personality
Opposition Principle
Conflict between opposing processes required to generate psychic energy
Equivalence Principle
Continuous redistribution of energy (expended or weakened energy is transferred elsewhere in the personality)
Entropy Principle
Tendency toward balance or equilibrium
Aspects of Personality
Ego; Attitudes; Psychological Functions; Psychological Types; Personal Unconscious; Complexes; The Collective Unconscious; Archetypes
Ego
Conscious aspect of psyche; selective about what is admitted into awareness
Attitudes of Psyche
Extroversion and Introversion
Extroversion
Orientation toward external world and others
Introversion
Orientation toward own thought’s and feelings
Psychological Function
Way of perceiving a person’s external and internal world; sensing, intuition, thinking, feeling
Personal Unconscious
Reservoir for material that was once conscious
Complexes
Patterns of emotions, memories, perceptions, and wishes in the personal unconscious
Collective Unconscious
Deepest level of psyche; contains the accumulation of inherited experiences of human and pre human species
Archetype
Images of universal experiences in the collective unconscious
Persona Archetype
Public face or role presented to others
Shadow Archetypes
Contains primitive animal instincts
Self Archetype
Unity, integration and harmony of the total personality
Animus Archetype
Masculine aspects of the female psyche
Anima Archetype
Feminine aspects of the masculine psyche
Childhood
Ego is developing; distinguishing between self and others
Puberty to young adulthood
Adaptions and external focus
Middle age
Balancing conscious and unconscious; internal focus
Individuation
Integration of all conscious and unconscious facets of the personality
