Chapter 3 - Jung Flashcards
Analytical psychology
Jung’s theory of personality
Archetypes
Images of universal experiences contained in the collective unconscious
Case study
A detailed history of an individual that contains data from a variety of sources
Collective unconscious
The deepest level of the psyche containing the accumulation of inherited experiences of human and pre-human species
Complex
JUNG - core or pattern of emotions, memories, perceptions, and wishes in the personal unconscious organized around a common theme, such as power or status
Conflict
HORNEY - basic incompatibility of the neurotic trends
Crisis
ERICKSON - the turning point faced at each developmental stage
Dream analysis
Technique involved the interpretation of dreams to uncover unconscious conflicts.
Manifest content
Actual events in dream
Latent content
Symbolic meaning of the dream events
Entropy principle
Tendency toward balance or equilibrium within the personality; the ideal is an equal distribution of psychic energy over all structures of the personality
Equivalence principle
The continuing redistribution of energy within a personality; if the energy expended on certain conditions or activities weakens or disappears, that energy is transferred elsewhere in the personality
Externalization
A way to defend against the conflict caused by the discrepancy between an idealized and real self-image by projecting the conflict onto the outside
Extra version
Am attitude of the psyche characterized b y an orientation toward the external world and other people
Free association
A technique in which the patient says whatever comes to mind
Individuation
A condition of psychological health resulting from the integration of all conscious and unconscious facets of the personality
Instincts
FREUD - mental representations of internal stimuli, such as hunger that drive a person to take certain actions
Introversion
An attitude of the psyche characterized by an orientation toward one’s own thoughts and feelings
Libido
JUNG - broader and more generalized form of psychic energy
Life-history reconstruction
Jung’s type of case study that involves examining a person’s past experiences to identify developmental patterns tat may explain present neuroses
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
An assessment test based on Jung’s psychological types and the attitudes of introversion and extraversion
Opposition principle
Conflict between opposing processes or tendencies is necessary to generate psychic energy
Persona archetype
The public face or role a person presents to others
Personal unconscious
The reservoir of material that was once conscious but has been forgotten or suppressed - personal document technique
Psyche
JUNG - Personality
Psychological types
Eight personality types based on interactions of the attitudes (introversion and extraversion) and the functions (thinking, feeling, sensing, and intuiting)
Rationalization
Defense mechanism that involves reinterpreting our behavior to make it more acceptable and less threatening to us
Repression
Defense mechanism that involves unconscious denial of the existence of something that causes anxiety
Self archetype
JUNG - archetype that represents the unity,integration, and harmony o the total personality
Symptom analysis
Similar to catharsis the symptom analysis technique focuses on the symptoms reported by the patient and attempts to interpret the patient’s free associations to those symptoms
Word association test
Projective technique in which a person responds to a stimulus word with whatever word comes to mind
