Carl Jung Flashcards
Who is Carl Jung?
- established analytic psychology
- reliance on ancient mythology and Eastern religious views
What is the personal unconscious?
- Reservoir for material that was once conscious
What are complexes?
- Pattern of emotions, memories, perceptions, and wishes in the personal unconscious
- Organized around a common theme
- May be conscious or unconscious
What is the collective unconscious?
- part of unconscious mind
- thoughts and images difficult to bring to awareness
- born with it
- same for all people
- made up of primordial images
What are primordial images?
- unconscious images inherited from our ancestors
- archetypes
- as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life
What are the important archetypes?
- animus
- anima
- shadow
- persona
- self
What is the animus?
- masculine side of the female psyche
What is the anima?
- feminine side of the male psyche
How do the anima and animus work?
- guide the selection of a romantic partner and direction of relationship
- look for partner by projecting anima or animus onto potential mates
What is the shadow?
- contains primitive animal instincts
- essentially negative
- dark side of personality
- partly in personal unconscious in the form of repressed feelings
- partly in the collective unconscious
What are the 4 categories that the 12 basic archetypes fall into?
- provide structure to the world
- yearn for paradise
- leave a mark on the world
- connect with others
What archetypes provide structure to the world?
- caregiver
- ruler
- creator
What archetypes yearn for paradise?
- innocent
- sage
- explorer
What archetypes leave mark on the world?
- hero
- magician
- outlaw
What archetypes connect with others?
- everyman
- jester
- lover
What is the persona?
- public face or role presented to others
What is the self?
- unity, integration, and harmony of the total personality
What was the evidence of the collective unconscious?
- mythology, cultural symbols, dreams, and the statements of schizophrenics
- recurrence of certain symbols in dreams and hallucinations, images found in art, folklore, and mythology
What is the ego?
- conscious aspect of the psyche
- thinking, feeling, remembering
- selective about what is admitted into awareness
What are the attitudes of the psyche?
- extraversion
- introversion
What is extraversion?
- orientation towards external world and others
What is introversion?
- orientation toward one’s own thoughts and feelings
What are psychological functions?
- Ways of perceiving a person’s external and internal world
What are the psychological functions?
- sensing
- thinking
- feeling
- intuiting
What is sensing?
- irrational
- detects the presence of objects
- indicates that something is there but does not indicate what it is
- sense, notice something but can’t put finger on what
What is thinking?
- rational
- tells what an object is
- gives names to objects that are sensed
What is feeling?
- rational
- determines what an object is worth to the person
- pertains to liking and disliking
- know what you want, what’s good for you
What is intuiting?
- irrational
- provides hunches when factual information is not available
- gut feeling, uncertainty, when have no established values
What are Jung’s psychological types?
- extraverted thinking
- extraverted feeling
- extraverted sensing
- extraverted intuiting
- introverted thinking
- introverted feeling
- introverted sensing
- introverted intuiting
What is extraverted thinking?
- logical
- objective
- dogmatic
What is extraverted feeling?
- emotional
- sensitive
- sociable
- more typical of women than men
What is extraverted sensing?
- outgoing
- pleasure seeking
- adaptable
What is extraverted intuiting?
- creative
- able to motivate others
- seize opportunities
What is introverted thinking?
- more interested in ideas than in people
What is introverted feeling?
- reserved
- undemonstrative
- capable of deep emotion
What is introverted sensing?
- outwardly detached
- expressing themselves in aesthetic pursuits
What is introverted intuiting?
- concerned with the unconscious more than everyday reality
What is individuation?
- Integration of all conscious and unconscious facets of personality
- unifying
- how to reach fulfillment
What are the steps to individuation?
- confront the unconscious
- dethrone the persona
- accept the dark side
- accept the anima and animus
- transcend; become best person you can be
What are the aspects of personality?
- personal unconscious
- complexes
- the collective unconscious
- archetypes
- ego
- attitudes
- psychological functions
- psychological types
