Chapter 3: Analytic Psychology Flashcards
The middle-aged doctor who talked to the “woman from within” was
Carl Gustav Jung
Occult phenomena can and do influence the lives of everyone.
Analytical Psychology
Jung’s theory is a compendium of _______
opposites
Jung gradually became aware of two separate aspects of his self, and he called these his
No. 1 and No. 2 personalities
No. 1 personality was and in tune with the objective. world, whereas his No. 2 personality was and directed inward toward his subjective world
extraverted, introverted
Jung’s period of ______ was similar to Freud’s self-analysis.
“creative illness”
3 Levels of the Psyche
Conscious, Personal Unconscious, and Collective Unconscious
Unlike Freud, however, Jung strongly asserted that the most important portion of the unconscious springs not from the personal experiences of the individual but from the __________
distant past of human existence
According to Jung, ______ images are those that are sensed by the ego, whereas unconscious elements have no relationship with the ego.
conscious
Jung saw the ___ as the center of consciousness, but not the core of personality (Freud)
ego
Ego is not the whole personality, but must be completed by the more comprehensive ____, the center of personality that is largely unconscious.
self
In a psychologically ______ person, the ego takes a secondary position to the unconscious self
healthy
The ______ embraces all repressed, forgotten, or subliminally perceived experiences of one particular individual.
personal unconscious
It contains repressed infantile memories and impulses, forgotten events, and experiences originally perceived below the threshold of our consciousness
Personal Unconscious
Contents of the personal unconscious are called ______. Largely personal, but they may also be partly derived from humanity’s collective experience.
complex/es
The contents of the ______ are more or less the same for people in all cultures.
collective unconscious
The ______ is responsible for people’s many myths, legends, and religious beliefs. It also produces “big dreams”,
collective unconscious
The collective unconscious does not refer to _____ but rather to humans’ innate tendency to react in a particular way whenever their experiences stimulate a biologically inherited response tendency.
inherited ideas
How many biologically based predispositions do humans have?
people have as many of these inherited tendencies as they have typical situations in life
With more repetition, these forms begin to develop some content and to emerge as relatively autonomous ______.
archetypes
______ are ancient or archaic images that derive from the collective unconscious. They are similar to complexes in that they are emotionally toned collections of associated images. But whereas complexes are individualized components of the personal unconscious, _____ are generalized and derive from the contents of the collective unconscious
Archetypes
Jung defined an _____ as an unconscious physical impulse toward action and saw the archetype as the psychic counterpart to an instinct
instinct
Archetypes have a _____ basis but originate through the repeated experiences of humans’ early ancestors.
biological
_____ are the main source of archetypal material, and certain _____ offer what Jung considered proof for the existence of the archetype
Dreams
Jung believed that _____ of psychotic patients also offered evidence for universal archetypes.
hallucinations
Freud looked first to the personal unconscious and resorted to the _____ only when individual explanations failed.
phylogenetic endowment
If we identify _____ too closely with our persona, we remain unconscious of our individuality and are blocked from attaining self-realization.
self
To become psychologically healthy, Jung believed, we must strike a balance between the demands of _____ and what we truly are.
society
To be whole, we must continually strive to know our _____ and that this quest is our first test of courage.
shadow
Few men become well acquainted with their _____because this task requires great courage and is even more difficult than becoming acquainted with their shadow.
anima
The process of gaining acquaintance with his anima was Jung’s second test of _____.
courage
Whereas the anima represents irrational moods and feelings, the animus is symbolic of _____.
thinking and reasoning
Animus is capable of influencing the thinking of a woman, yet it does not actually belong to her. It belongs to the _____ and originates from the encounters of prehistoric women with men
collective unconscious
The _____, therefore, represents two opposing forces—fertility and nourishment on the one hand and power and destruction on the other.
great mother
Fertility and power combine to form the concept of _____, which may be a separate archetype, but its relation to the great mother is obvious.
Rebirth
This archetypal meaning, however, is unconscious and cannot be directly experienced by a single individual
Wise Old Man
_____ cannot directly impart its wisdom to an individual.
Collective unconscious
The ______ comes when people become swayed by the pseudoknowledge of a powerful prophet and mistake nonsense for real wisdom.
danger to society
An immortal person with no weakness cannot be a _____
hero
Jung believed that each person possesses an inherited tendency to move toward growth, perfection, and completion, and he called this innate disposition the _____.
self
The most comprehensive of all archetypes, the _____ is the archetype of archetypes because it pulls together the other archetypes and unites them in the process of self-realization.
self
Like the other archetypes, it possesses conscious and personal unconscious components, but it is mostly formed by collective unconscious images.
self
The self includes both personal and collective unconscious images and thus should not be confused with the _____, which represents consciousness only.
ego
The _____ represents the perfect self, the archetype of order, unity, and totality
mandala
Jung believed that _____ experience an increasing number of mandala motifs in their dreams at the exact time that they are undergoing a period of serious psychic disorder and that this experience is further evidence that people strive for order and balance
psychotic patients
These opposing elements are often represented by the yang and yin, whereas the _____ is usually symbolized by the mandala.
self
Complete _____ is seldom if ever achieved, but as an ideal it exists within the collective unconscious of everyone.
self-realization
_____ people rely heavily on concrete thoughts, but they may also use abstract ideas if these ideas have been transmitted to them from without, for example, from parents, teachers, mathematicians and engineers, accountants.
Extraverted thinking
_____ people react to external stimuli, but their interpretation of an event is colored more by the internal meaning they bring with them than by the objective facts themselves.
Inventors and philosophers are often _____ types because they react to the external world in a highly subjective and creative manner, interpreting old data in new ways
introverted thinking
_____ people use objective data to make evaluations. They are not guided so much by their subjective opinion, but by external values and widely accepted standards of judgment.
_____ people often become businesspeople or politicians because these professions demand and reward the making of value judgments based on objective information
Extraverted feeling
_____ people base their value judgments primarily on subjective perceptions rather than objective facts. Critics of the various art forms make much use of _____, making value judgments on the basis of subjective individualized data. They ignore traditional opinions and beliefs.
introverted feeling
_____ people perceive external stimuli objectively, in much the same way that these stimuli exist in reality.
This facility is essential in such occupations as proofreader, house painter, wine taster, or any other job demanding sensory discriminations congruent with those of most people
Extroverted Sensing
_____ are largely influenced by their subjective sensations of sight, sound, taste, touch, and so forth.
Portrait artists, especially those whose paintings are extremely personalized, rely on an _____ attitude.
introverted-sensing
_____ people are oriented toward facts in the external world. Inventors who must inhibit distracting sensory
data and concentrate on unconscious solutions to objective problems.
Extraverted intuitive
_____ people are guided by unconscious perception of facts that are basically subjective and have little or no resemblance to external reality. Mystics, prophets, surrealistic artists, or religious fanatics,
Introverted intuitive
Jung believed that personality develops through a series of stages that culminate in _____ or _____.
individuation, self-realization
Jung grouped the stages of life into four general periods—
childhood, youth, middle life, and old age
He compared the trip through life to the _____ through the sky, with the brightness of the sun representing consciousness.
journey of the sun
Full of potential, but still lacking in brilliance (consciousness)
early morning sun is childhood
Climbing toward the zenith, but unaware of the impending decline
morning sun is youth
brilliant like the late morning sun, but obviously headed for
the sunset
Early afternoon sun is middle life
Its once bright consciousness now markedly dimmed
Evening sun is old age
Jung divided childhood into three substages:
(1) the anarchic, (2) the monarchic, and (3) the dualistic.
_____ is characterized by chaotic and sporadic consciousness. “Islands of consciousness”
Anarchic phase
_____ of childhood is characterized by the development of the ego and by the beginning of logical and verbal thinking
Monarchic phase
_____ of childhood when the ego is divided into the
objective and subjective.
Dualistic phase
The period from puberty until middle life is called _____
Youth
_____ people strive to gain psychic and physical independence from their parents, find a mate, raise a family, and make a place in the world
Young
This desire to live in the past is called the _____
conservative principle
Jung believed that middle life begins at approximately age _____.
35 or 40
How can middle life be lived to its fullest? They are capable of giving up the _____ of youth and moving in the introverted direction of expanded consciousness
extraverted goals
Fear of _____ is often taken as normal, but Jung believed that _____ is the goal of life and that life can be fulfilling only when death is seen in this light
death
_____, also called self-realization or individuation, is the process of becoming an individual or whole person.
Psychological rebirth
Analytical psychology is essentially psychology of _____, and self-realization is the process of integrating the ______ poles into a single homogeneous individual
opposite/s
Jung: to remove the _____ as the dominant concern of personality and replace it with the self.
ego
Word Association Test
Dream Analysis
Active Imagination
Psychotherapy
Jung’s Methods of Investigation
The basic purpose of the test in Jungian psychology today is to uncover feeling-toned _____.
complexes
He objected to Freud’s notion that nearly all dreams are _____ and that most dream symbols represent sexual urges.
wish fulfillments
The purpose of Jungian dream interpretation is to uncover elements from the _____ and to integrate them into consciousness in order to facilitate the process of self-realization.
personal and collective unconscious
Dreams included _____, which have special meaning for all people
big dreams
_____, which are common to most people, and earliest dreams remembered.
Typical dreams
A technique Jung used during his own self-analysis as well as with many of his patients was _____.
active imagination
The purpose of active imagination is to reveal _____ emerging from the unconscious.
archetypal images
Jung identified four basic approaches to therapy, representing ____ developmental stages in the history of psychotherapy.
four
The first stage is the cathartic method practiced by Josef Breuer and his patient Anna O. For patients who merely have a need to share their secrets, catharsis is effective.
Confession of a Pathogenic Secret
The second stage involves _____. This approach, used by Freud, gives the patients insight into the causes of their neuroses, but may still leave them incapable of solving social problems.
interpretation, explanation, and elucidation
The third stage, therefore, is the approach adopted by Adler and includes the education of patients as _____
social beings
_____ meant that the therapist must first be transformed into a healthy human being
transformation
Jung was quite eclectic in his theory and practice of _____. His treatment varied according to the age, stage of development, and particular problem of the patient
psychotherapy
