Chapter 4: Carl Jung Flashcards
What does Occult Phenomena mean?
Capable of influencing the lives of “everyone”
What is the Collective Unconscious?
Elements, thoughts, feelings, that have been passed down by our ancestors
Self-realization
The end goal of Analytical Psychology. The Whole person. The individuation and Psychological Rebirth. The most inclusive archetype.
Birth date and place of Carl Jung
July 26, 1875; Kesswil, a town on Lake Constance in Switzerland
Father of Carl Jung
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
Mother of Carl Jung
Emilie Preiswerk Jung
- Youngest of the 13 children
- Daughter of a Theologian
- Realistic, Practical, and Warm Hearted
Mother of Carl Jung no.2
Unstable, Mystical, Clairvoyant, and Ruthless. Also called the Night Personality
Hospitalization of Carl Jung’s Mother
Caused Carl to view women as unreliable and men as reliable but powerless
Wife of Carl Jung
Emma Rauschenbach
- Young, sophisticated, and wealthy Swiss woman.
Jung and Freud: The Questionable Duo
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
Levels of the Psyche
Conscious - Ego
Personal - Complexes
Collective - Ancestral Past
Conscious (Analytical Psych)
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.
Personal Unconscious
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
Complex(es)
- 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
Collective Unconscious
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
Collective Unconscious
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
Archetypes Definition Only
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.
Archetypes [Types]
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
Persona
The side or part of personality we readily show to the world.
Shadow
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.
Anima
- 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
Animus
- Masculine side of women, symbolic of thinking and reasoning.
Wise Old Man
- 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