Chapter 3 Flashcards
Individual differences Jung
Individuals differ in their tendency to be introverts or extraverts, which is stable throughout life.
They also differ in the extent to which they make use of four psychological functions (thinking, feeling, sensation and intuition)
Adaptation and adjustment Jung
The unconscious has an important role in healthy maturity and should be explored through symbolism. Health requires a balance between conscious and unconscious functioning
Cognitive processes Jung
Rational thinking, intuition and emphasis on concrete details all provide useful information and should be developed. Unconscious images influence perceptions and may distort our perception of reality
Society Jung
Cultural myths and rituals provide ways of dealing with the unconscious. Important differences exist among cultures and should be preserved
Biological influences Jung
Mental contents as well as physical characteristics are inherited
Development Jung
Early experience was of little interest to Jung. Midlife change involves exploration of the creative potentials of the unconscious.
Development Jung
Early experience was of little interest to Jung. Midlife change involves exploration of the creative potentials of the unconscious.
Self Jung
- The total, integrated personality
- Includes all of a person’s qualities and potentials even those that are not apparent
- Conscious growth and inner development
- Person must pay attention to both
Compensation
principle of the relationship between the unconscious and consciousness, by which the unconscious provides what is missing from consciousness to make a complete whole
Individuation
- the process of becoming a fully developed person, with all psychic functions developed
- Happens in midlife
- Moving the center of personality from the ego to some point between ego and unconscious
Ego
- The gatekeeper to consciousness
- Essential for personal identity
Ego inflation
Overvaluation of ego consciousness, without recognizing its limited role in the psyche
Persona
A person’s social identity
Mask
Social roles
Shadow
The unconscious complement to a person’s conscious identity, often experienced as dangerous and evil
Anima
The feminity that is part of the unconscious of every man
Animus
The masculinity that is part of the unconscious of every woman
The 3 most important archetypes
- Anima
- Animus
- Shadow
Archetype
A primordial image in the collective unconscious; an innate pattern that influences experiences of the real world
Personal unconscious
That part of the unconscious derived from on individual’s experience