Ch. 4 Analytical Psychology

Question 1

analytical psychology

Answer 1

(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

Question 2

Carl Jung

Answer 2

created analytical psychology

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

Question 3

levels of psyche

Answer 3

conscious
personal unconscious
collective unconscious
archetype

Question 4

conscious

Answer 4

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

**Freud’s unconscious

Question 5

personal unconscious

Answer 5

repressed, forgotten, or subliminally perceived experiences

- pertains to individuals

Question 6

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

Question 7

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

Question 8

archetype

Answer 8

“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

Question 9

examples of archetype

Answer 9

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

Question 10

persona

Answer 10

the side of our personality that what we show others

- not necessarily good or bad

Question 11

shadow

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the dark side of our personality

Question 12

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

Question 13

animus

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the masculine side to females

- originates from women’s inherited experiences w/ men

Question 14

great mother

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the opposing forces of fertility and destruction

Question 15

wise old man

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symbolizes preexisting knowledge to mysteries

• not always correct
• present in dreams

Question 16

hero

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the godlike man who conquers evil or vanquishes evil

- fights evil

Question 17

the self

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center and essence of personality

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

Question 18

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

Question 19

dynamics of analytical psychology

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1) behavior is shaped by causality and teleology

2) balance between progression and regression

Question 20

progression

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

**similar to extraversion

Question 21

regression

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

**similar to introversion

Question 22

psychic types

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attitudes and functions

**our preferences

Question 23

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

Question 24

introversion

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

Question 25

extraversion

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

Question 26

types of functions

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thinking feeling sensation intuition

Question 27

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

Question 29

sensation

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receives stimuli and transmits them into perceptual consciousness

Question 30

intuition

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perception beyond the workings of consciousness **gut feeling

Question 31

stages of development

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childhood youth middle life old age

Question 32

childhood

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lacks consciousness - phases: anarchic, monarchic, dualistic **early morning... full of potential

Question 33

anarchic phase

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similar to id - disconnected islands of consciousness - primitive images of consciousness **chaotic

Question 34

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

Question 35

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

Question 36

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

Question 37

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

Question 38

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

Question 39

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

Question 40

method of investigation

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word association test dream analysis active imagination

Question 41

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

Question 42

critique of analytical psychology

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moderate supporting research low practicality low internal consistency low parsimony difficult to test empirically very philosophical

Question 43

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