Carl Jung: Analytical Psychology Flashcards
libido
To Jung, a broader and more generalized form of psychic energy.
psyche
Jung’s term for personality.
opposition principle
Jung’s idea that conflict between opposing processes or tendencies is necessary to generate psychic energy.
equivalence principle
The continuing redistribution of energy within a personality; if the energy expended on certain conditions or activities weakens or disappears, that energy is transferred elsewhere in the personality.
entropy principle
A tendency toward balance or equilibrium within the personality; the ideal is an equal distribution of psychic energy over all structures of the personality.
ego
To Jung, the conscious aspect of personality.
extraversion
An attitude of the psyche characterized by an orientation toward the external world and other people.
introversion
An attitude of the psyche characterized by an orientation toward one’s own thoughts and feelings.
psychological types
To Jung, eight personality types based on inter- actions of the attitudes (introversion and extraversion) and the functions (thinking, feeling, sensing, and intuiting).
personal unconscious
The reservoir of mate- rial that was once conscious but has been forgotten or suppressed.
complex
To Jung, a core or pattern of emotions, memories, perceptions, and wishes in the personal unconscious organized around a common theme, such as power or status.
collective unconscious
The dee- pest level of the psyche containing the accumulation of inherited experiences of human and pre-human species.
archetypes
Images of universal experiences contained in the collective unconscious.
persona archetype
The public face or role a person presents to others.
