Chapter 3

Question 1

Active Imagination (Jung)

Answer 1

Technique of analysis in which individuals actively focus on experiences or images, reporting changes in these images or experiences as they concentrate on them.

Question 2

Amplification (Jung)

Answer 2

Process of using knowledge of the history and meaning of symbols to understand unconscious material, such as that arising from patients’ dreams.

Question 3

Androgyny

Answer 3

Possessing both masculine and feminine psychological traits, usually in relatively equal amounts.

Question 4

Anima (Jung)

Answer 4

The archetype representing the feminine component of the male personality.

Question 5

Animus (Jung)

Answer 5

The archetype that represents the masculine component of the female personality.

Question 6

Archetypes (Jung)

Answer 6

Universal images or symbols that are pathways from the collective unconscious to the conscious.

Question 7

Attitudes (Jung)

Answer 7

Two ways of interacting with the world.

Question 8

Auxiliary Function (Jung)

Answer 8

the function that takes over when the superior function is not operating. Feeling, sensing, and intuiting.

Question 9

Collective Unconscious (Jung)

Answer 9

Part of the unconscious that contains memories and images that are universal to the human species.

Question 10

Complex (Jung)

Answer 10

Group of associated feelings, thoughts, and memories that have intense emotional content.

Question 11

Dreams (Jung)

Answer 11

Arising from unconscious creativity, “big” dreams represent symbolic material from the collective unconscious; “little” dreams reflect day-to-day activity and may come from the personal unconscious.

Question 12

Extraversion (Jung)

Answer 12

One of the two major attitudes of personality. Associated with valuing objective experience and perceiving and responding to the external world rather than thinking about one’s own perceptions of internal world.

Question 13

Feeling (Jung)

Answer 13

A function of personality in which individuals attend to subjective experiences of pleasure, pain, anger, or other feelings. Its polar opposite of thinking.

Question 14

Functions (Jung)

Answer 14

Four ways of perceiving and responding to the world.

Question 15

Individuation (Jung)

Answer 15

Process of integrating opposing elements of personality to become whole.

Question 16

Inferior Function (Jung)

Answer 16

The function that is least well-developed in an individual and may be repressed and unconscious, showing itself in dreams or fantasies.

Question 17

Introversion (Jung)

Answer 17

One of the two major attitudes of personality. Represents an orientation toward subjective experiencing and focusing on one’s own perception of the external world.

Question 18

Intuiting (Jung)

Answer 18

A personality function that stresses having a hunch or guess about something, which may arise from the unconscious. Its polar opposite is sensing.

Question 19

Jungian analyst

Answer 19

Term used for individuals trained at institutions certified by the International Association for Analytic Psychology.

Question 20

Mandala (Jung)

Answer 20

Symbolic representation of the unified wholeness of the Self.

Question 21

Persona (Jung)

Answer 21

Archetype representing the roles that people play in response to social demands of others. Mask when interacting with the environment.

Question 22

Personal Unconscious (Jung)

Answer 22

Thoughts, feelings, and perceptions that are not accepted by the ego are stored here.

Question 23

Psyche (Jung)

Answer 23

Term for personality structure, which includes conscious and unconscious thoughts, feelings, and behaviors.

Question 24

Psychic Energy (Jung)

Answer 24

Energy of the personality or psyche developing from desiring, motivating, thinking, looking, and so forth.

Question 25

Puella Aeterna (Jung)

Answer 25

A woman who may have difficulty accepting the responsibilities of adulthood and is likely to be still attached to her father.

Question 26

Puer Aeternus (Jung)

Answer 26

A man who may have difficulty growing out of adolescence and becoming more responsible.

Question 27

Sandtray (Jung)

Answer 27

A sandbox with small figures and forms to which individuals can assign meaning.

Question 28

Self (Jung)

Answer 28

Archetype that is the center of personality that provides organization and integration of the personality through a process of individuation.

Question 29

Sensing (Jung)

Answer 29

Personality function that emphasizes one’s perception of oneself and one’s world. Its polar opposite is intuiting.

Question 30

Shadow (Jung)

Answer 30

Archetype that represents unacceptable sexual, animalistic, or aggressive impulses, usually the opposite of the way we see ourselves.

Question 31

Superior Function (Jung)

Answer 31

One of the four functions of personality, which is most highly developed.

Question 32

Symbols (Jung)

Answer 32

Content and outward expression of archetypes.

Question 33

Synchronicity (Jung)

Answer 33

Coincidences that have no causal connection.

Question 34

Thinking (Jung)

Answer 34

Function of personality in which individuals attempt to understand the world and to solve problems; in contrast to feeling.

Question 35

Transcendent Function (Jung)

Answer 35

Refers to a confrontation of opposites, a conscious thought and unconscious influence. It bridges two opposing attitudes or conditions and in the process becomes a third force usually expressed through an emerging symbol.

Question 36

Word Association

Answer 36

Method developed by Jung and Riklin in which individuals are asked to respond to a word with another word or phrase.