Chapter 4: Carl Jung Flashcards

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What does Occult Phenomena mean?

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Capable of influencing the lives of “everyone”

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What is the Collective Unconscious?

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Elements, thoughts, feelings, that have been passed down by our ancestors

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Self-realization

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The end goal of Analytical Psychology. The Whole person. The individuation and Psychological Rebirth. The most inclusive archetype.

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Birth date and place of Carl Jung

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July 26, 1875; Kesswil, a town on Lake Constance in Switzerland

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Father of Carl Jung

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Johan Paul Jung
- Youngest of the 13 children
- A minister at the reformed Swiss church
- A sentimental idealist with strong doubts about his religious faith

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Mother of Carl Jung

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Emilie Preiswerk Jung
- Youngest of the 13 children
- Daughter of a Theologian
- Realistic, Practical, and Warm Hearted

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Mother of Carl Jung no.2

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Unstable, Mystical, Clairvoyant, and Ruthless. Also called the Night Personality

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Hospitalization of Carl Jung’s Mother

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Caused Carl to view women as unreliable and men as reliable but powerless

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Wife of Carl Jung

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Emma Rauschenbach
- Young, sophisticated, and wealthy Swiss woman.

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Jung and Freud: The Questionable Duo

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o Began a steady correspondence in 1906.
o Jung was the ideal successor
 First president of the International Psychoanalytic Association
 Relationship became rocky after they interpreted each other’s dreams
 Tension dissipated after their travel and he resigned from presidency
 Creative Illness, a period of isolation and loneliness wherein he was able to create a unique theory of personality

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Levels of the Psyche

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Conscious - Ego
Personal - Complexes
Collective - Ancestral Past

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Conscious (Analytical Psych)

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Represented by the ego. Consists of our thoughts, memories, and emotions that are recognized/sensed.

Has a desire to become a more comprehensive self. Actually plays a minimal role in Analytical Psychology.

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Personal Unconscious

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o The first layer of Jung’s idea of the unconscious
o Essentially the same as Freud’s, but an essential feature of Jung’s personal unconscious is the complexes

o Complex

  • Collection of thoughts, feelings, attitudes, and memories that focus on a single concept.
  • Can be partly conscious and may stem from both the personal and collective unconscious
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Complex(es)

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  • Is a part of the Personal Unconscious as a complex is only determined/created by the individual
  • Collection of thoughts, feelings, attitudes, and memories that focus on a single concept.
  • Can be partly conscious and may stem from both the personal and collective unconscious
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Collective Unconscious

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Has roots in the ancestral past of the entire specie.

 Responsible for people’s beliefs, myths, legends, religion
 Does not refer to inherited ideas but to human’s innate tendency to react in a particular way whenever their experiences stimulate a biologically inherited response tendency

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Collective Unconscious

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Has roots in the ancestral past of the entire specie.

 Responsible for people’s beliefs, myths, legends, religion
 Does not refer to inherited ideas but to human’s innate tendency to react in a particular way whenever their experiences stimulate a biologically inherited response tendency

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Archetypes Definition Only

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o Ancient or archaic images that derive from the collective unconscious.

o Cannot be directly represented, but when activated:
 It expresses itself through: dreams, fantasies, and delusions
 An autonomous personality which also affects the personality of the whole person
 Have biological basis but originate through the repeated experiences of early ancestors.

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Archetypes [Types]

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Persona - The side shown to the world
Shadow - Evil
Anima - Feminine/Emotional side (of men)
Animus - Masculine/Reasoning side (of women)
Wise Old Man - Wisdom
Great Mother - Fertility, Nourishment, Power, Destruction
Hero - Triumphs against evil
Self - The person moving towards growth, perfection, and completion

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Persona

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The side or part of personality we readily show to the world.

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Shadow

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The darkness repressed. We do not wish to show or acknowledge this side of us.
The First Test of Courage
It is easier to see the shadows of others than our own.

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Anima

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  • Feminine side of men (2nd test of courage)
  • Resistant to consciousness
  • Must be comfortable with the shadow first
  • Originated from the experiences of men towards women in their life
  • Symbolic of mood and feelings
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Animus

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  • Masculine side of women, symbolic of thinking and reasoning.
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Wise Old Man

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  • Derived from animus
  • Archetype of wisdom, symbolizes human’ preexisting knowledge of the mysteries of life.
  • Personified in dreams as father, grandfather, teacher, philosopher, guru, doctor, priest
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Great Mother

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  • Derived from anima
  • Represents two opposing forces:
    o Fertility and nourishment (capable of producing and sustaining life).
    o Power and destruction (devour or neglect the offspring)
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Hero

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  • Represented in mythology and legends as a powerful person, sometimes part god, who fights against evil.
  • Conquering evil is the unconscious desire to conquer the darkness in our unconsciousness.
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Self (Analytical Psych)

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  • Move toward growth, perfection, and completion.
  • Archetype of Archetypes

o Mandala
 Ultimate symbol of the self.
 Represents the strivings of the collective unconscious for unity, balance, and wholeness.
 Also represents the perfect self, the totality, orderly, and united self.
 Represents both personal consciousness and collective unconsciousness

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Self [Mandala]

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Mandala
 Ultimate symbol of the self.
 Represents the strivings of the collective unconscious for unity, balance, and wholeness.
 Also represents the perfect self, the totality, orderly, and united self.
 Represents both personal consciousness and collective unconsciousness

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Dynamics of Personality (Carl Jung)

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Causality - Present events occur due to the past
Teleology - Present events are motivated by future goals
Regression - inward flow of psychic energy
Progression - outward flow of psychic energy
Synchronicity - Two situations happen at the same time, may be linked

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Psychological Types

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Two Attitudes:
Introversion
Extroversion

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Introversion

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Turning inward of psychic energy with an orientation toward the subjective.

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Extroversion

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Turning outward of psychic energy so that a person is oriented toward objectivity.

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Four Separate Functions in the Attitudes

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o Thinking
o Feeling
o Sensing
o Intuiting (Intuitive)

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Attitude [Definition]

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o Defined as a predisposition to act or react in a characteristic direction.
Introverted or Extraverted attitude

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Functions [Definition]

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o Both introversion and extraversion can combine with any one or more of four functions, forming eight possible orientations, or types.
o Logical intellectual activity that produces a chain of ideas.

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Feeling [Definition]

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Describes the process of evaluating an idea or event

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Sensing [Definition]

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Receives physical stimuli and transmits them to perceptual consciousness

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Intuiting [Definition]

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Involves perception beyond the workings of consciousness

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Extraverted Thinking

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  • Rely on concrete thoughts, may make use of abstract ideas if these ideas have been transmitted to them by someone else.
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Introverted Thinking

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  • React to external stimuli, but their interpretation of the scenario is more internal.
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Extraverted Feeling

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  • Make use of objective data to make evaluations. Not guided by subjective opinions, but by external values and widely accepted standards of judgement.
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Introverted Feeling

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Base their values more on subjective perceptions.

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Extraverted Sensing

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  • Perceive external stimuli objectively, very similar to the stimuli that exist in reality.
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Introverted Sensing

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  • Introverted sensing people are largely influenced by their subjective sensations of sight, sound, taste, touch, and so forth.
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Extraverted Intuitive

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Oriented towards facts in the external world

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Introverted Intuitive

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  • Guided by unconscious perception of facts that are basically subjective and have little or no resemblance to external reality.
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Stages of Personality Development [Types Only]

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Child
Youth
Middle Life
Old Age

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Stages of Development - Childhood

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  1. Anarchic Phase
  2. Monarchich Phase
  3. Dualistic Phase
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Anarchic Phase

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a. Characterized by chaotic and sporadic consciousness
b. “islands of consciousness” may exist, but there is little or no connection between

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Monarchic Phase

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a. Characterized by development of the ego and by the beginning of logical and verbal thinking
b. Children see themselves objectively and refer to themselves in the third person
c. “Islands of consciousness” enlarge and provide a home for the primitive ego that sees itself as an object.

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Dualistic Phase

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a. Where the ego as a perceiver arises Ego is divided into the objective and subjective
b. Children reer to themselves in the first person, and see their existence as separate individuals
c. “islands of consciousness” become continuous land inhabited by an ego complex

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Stages of Development - Youth

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a. Puberty until middle life
b. Young people strive to gain psychic and physical independence from their parents, find a mate, raise a family and make a place in the world.
c. Must overcome the natural tendency to cling to the narrow consciousness of childhood.
d. Conservative principle – the desire to live in the past

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Stages of Development – Middle Life

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a. Begins approximately at ages 35-40
b. It is a period of decline which can present middle-aged people with increasing anxieties, but also can be a period of tremendous potential
c. Tendency is to retain early life’s social and moral values
d. Must give up extraverted youth goals and move towards introverted direction of expanded consciousness
e. Finding new meaning in life and not merely achieving success in business or good family life

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Stages of Development - Old Age

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a. People experience diminution of consciousness
b. Fear of death is often taken as normal, but Jung believed that death is the goal of life and life can be fulfilling only when death is seen in this light
c. Psychological rebirth also called self-realization or individuation
 Process of becoming an individual or whole person by integrating the opposite poles of personality into a single homogenous self.

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Methods of Investigation of Carl Jung [Types]

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  • Word Association Test
  • Dream Analysis
  • Active Imagination
  • Psychotherapy
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Word Association

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o Used as early as 1930
o Respond to the first thing that comes into mind
 Jung records the response time, verbal response, rate of breathing, galvanic skin response, and test re-test consistency
 Critical responses: restricted breathing, changes in the electrical conductivity of the skin, delayed reactions, multiple responses, disregard of instructions, inability to pronounce a common word, failure to respond, and inconsistency on test-retest.

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Dream Analysis

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o Uncover elements from the personal and collective unconscious and to integrate them into consciousness to promote the process of self-realization
o Certain dreams offered proof for the existence of the collective unconscious
o Big dreams
 Special meaning for all people
o Typical Dreams
 Common to most people
o Earliest dreams
 Can be traced back to age 3 or 4 and contain mythological and symbolic images and motifs.

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Active Imagination

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o Reveal archetypal images emerging from the unconscious
o It requires a person to begin with any impression (dream, image, vision, picture, or fantasy) and to concentrate until the impression begins to “move”. They must follow it and freely communicate with them.
o A useful technique for people who want to be better acquainted with their collective and personal unconscious
o Active Imagination has an advantage over dream analysis

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Psychotherapy

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o Fourth Stage, transformation
o The therapist must first be transformed into a healthy human being, preferably by undergoing psychotherapy.
o To help neurotic patients become healthy and to encourage healthy people to work independently towards self-realization.
o Although he encouraged his patients to be independent, he admitted the importance of transference,
o Countertransference- a term used to describe a therapist’s feelings toward the patient.

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Transformation - Psychotherapy

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Fourth Stage…idk