Ch. 4 Analytical Psychology Flashcards
analytical psychology
(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
Carl Jung
created analytical psychology
- old colleague of Freud (his assumed successor)
- questioned father’s theology (minister)
- known for collective unconscious
levels of psyche
conscious
personal unconscious
collective unconscious
archetype
conscious
mental/psychic images sensed by ego
- minor role in Jungian theory
**Freud’s unconscious
personal unconscious
repressed, forgotten, or subliminally perceived experiences
- pertains to individuals
complex
emotionally toned conglomerate (group) of ideas
- make up personal unconscious
- uncovered by word association test
- may revolve around mother or archetypes
collective unconscious
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
archetype
“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
examples of archetype
persona shadow anima animus great mother wise old man hero the self
persona
the side of our personality that what we show others
- not necessarily good or bad
shadow
the dark side of our personality
anima
the feminine side of males
- originates from men’s inherited experiences w/ women
- the more irrational/emotional side in men
animus
the masculine side to females
- originates from women’s inherited experiences w/ men
great mother
the opposing forces of fertility and destruction
wise old man
symbolizes preexisting knowledge to mysteries
- not always correct
- present in dreams
hero
the godlike man who conquers evil or vanquishes evil
- fights evil
the self
center and essence of personality
- our core of personality
- mostly unconscious
- often symbolized in the mandala motif