Ch. 4 Analytical Psychology Flashcards

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analytical psychology

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(Jung) assumes occult phenomena influences lives

  • inherit experiences from ancestors in form of collective unconscious
  • aim = achieve balance between opposing forces

**very applicable to pop culture

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Carl Jung

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created analytical psychology

  • old colleague of Freud (his assumed successor)
  • questioned father’s theology (minister)
  • known for collective unconscious
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levels of psyche

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conscious
personal unconscious
collective unconscious
archetype

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conscious

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mental/psychic images sensed by ego
- minor role in Jungian theory

**Freud’s unconscious

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personal unconscious

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repressed, forgotten, or subliminally perceived experiences

- pertains to individuals

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complex

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emotionally toned conglomerate (group) of ideas

  • make up personal unconscious
  • uncovered by word association test
  • may revolve around mother or archetypes
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collective unconscious

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ideas from experiences inherited from ancestors

  • psychic blueprint for living
  • lies beyond our personal experiences
  • characterized by archetypes
  • evolves and changes to incorporate new information that is globally recognized and accepted

**deep-seated beliefs regarding spirituality and religion may be partially due to the collective unconscious

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archetype

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“primordial images” OR “collective symbols”

contents/archaic images derived from collective unconscious

  • represent psychic patterns of inherited behavior that are distinguished from instincts
  • everyone has all the archetypes but not all can control them
  • to reach individualization, need to be aware of and control all archetypes

**anima, animus, shadow

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examples of archetype

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persona
shadow
anima
animus
great mother
wise old man
hero
the self
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persona

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the side of our personality that what we show others

- not necessarily good or bad

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shadow

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the dark side of our personality

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anima

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the feminine side of males

  • originates from men’s inherited experiences w/ women
  • the more irrational/emotional side in men
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animus

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the masculine side to females

- originates from women’s inherited experiences w/ men

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great mother

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the opposing forces of fertility and destruction

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wise old man

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symbolizes preexisting knowledge to mysteries

  • not always correct
  • present in dreams
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hero

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the godlike man who conquers evil or vanquishes evil

- fights evil

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the self

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center and essence of personality

  • our core of personality
  • mostly unconscious
  • often symbolized in the mandala motif
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mandala

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symbol representing the striving for unity and completion

- often seen as a circle w/ a square or a square w/in a circle

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dynamics of analytical psychology

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1) behavior is shaped by causality and teleology

2) balance between progression and regression

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progression

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forward flow of psychic energy
- necessary for adaptation to the outside world

**similar to extraversion

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regression

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backward flow of psychic energy
- necessary for adaptation to inner world

**similar to introversion

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psychic types

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attitudes and functions

**our preferences

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attitude

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predisposition to act in a character direction
- everyone has access to both but we have a specific preference to one

**introversion and extraversion

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introversion

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turning toward inward of psychic energy w/ an orientation toward subjective

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extraversion

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turning outward of psychic energy so that a person is oriented toward objective and away from subjective

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types of functions

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thinking
feeling
sensation
intuition

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thinking

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logical intellectual activity that produces a chain of ideas

- concern w/ facts and objectives

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feeling

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evaluating an idea or even

- concern w/ values and feelings

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sensation

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receives stimuli and transmits them into perceptual consciousness

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intuition

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perception beyond the workings of consciousness

**gut feeling

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stages of development

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childhood
youth
middle life
old age

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childhood

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lacks consciousness
- phases: anarchic, monarchic, dualistic

**early morning… full of potential

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anarchic phase

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similar to id

  • disconnected islands of consciousness
  • primitive images of consciousness

**chaotic

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monarchic phase

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development of the ego, logical and verbal thinking

  • see self objectively in 3rd person
  • larger islands
  • more numerous but still disconnected
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dualistic phase

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ego = subjective/objective

  • think about others too
  • refer to self in 1st person
  • aware of existence of other people as separate
  • islands = continuous land
  • complex self w/ ego that recognizes both object and subject
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youth stage

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period from puberty until middle life

  • (YA) major difficulty to overcome / become independent
  • (A) tendency to cling to childhood

**morning sun

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middle life stage

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begins @ approximately age 35 or 40

  • period of anxiety y potential
  • discover new meaning in life
  • may have new religious orientation
  • deal w/ life/death

**brilliant late morning sun but heading toward sunset

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old age stage

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discontinuation of consciousness

  • death becomes goal in life
  • need to accept death (afraid of death = afraid of life)

**evening sun

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self-realization

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“individuation”

process of integrating the opposite into a harmonious self

  • come to selfhood
  • requires assimilation of unconsciousness into total self
  • rarely achieved
  • minimized persona
  • recognized anima / animus
  • balance btwn introversion / extraversion

**need to accept natural flow of life, not hoping to be youthful forever

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method of investigation

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word association test
dream analysis
active imagination

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basic approaches of psychotherapy

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1) confession of pathogenic secret (catharsis)
2) interpretation, explanation y elucidation + insight
3) educate patient as social beings – similar to Adler
4) transformation into a healthy human

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critique of analytical psychology

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moderate supporting research

low practicality

low internal consistency

low parsimony

difficult to test empirically

very philosophical

43
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concepts of humanity

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neither deterministic or purposeful

not optimistic, nor pessimistic

both conscious and unconscious

motivation by causal and teleological

biology over social

emphasizes similarities among people