Chapter 4: Carl Jung

Question 1

Analytical Psychology

Answer 1

Rests on the assumption that occult phenomena can and do influence the life of everyone

Question 2

Collective Unconscious

Answer 2

Emotionally toned experiences inherited from our ancestors; includes those elements that we have never experienced individually but which have come down to us from our ancestors

Question 3

Archetypes

Answer 3

Elements of the collective unconscious that become highly developed

Question 4

Carl Jung’s Birthplace

Answer 4

Kesswil, Switzerland

Question 5

Levels of the Psyche

Answer 5

Conscious, Personal Unconscious, Collective Unconscious, Archetypes

Question 6

Conscious

Answer 6

Images that are sensed by the ego, whereas unconscious elements have no relationship with the ego

Question 7

Ego

Answer 7

Jung considered this not the whole personality; must be completed by the more comprehensive self

Question 8

Self

Answer 8

The center of personality that is largely unconscious

Question 9

Personal Unconscious

Answer 9

Embraces all repressed, forgotten, or subliminally perceived experiences of one particular individual. Constains repressed infantile memories and impulses, forgotten events, and experiences originally perceived below the threshold of our consciousness

Question 10

Complexes

Answer 10

Contents of the personal unconscious; emotionally toned conglomeration of associated ideas; partyly conscious and can stem from both the personal and the collective unconscious

Question 11

Collective Unconscious

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has roots in the ancestral past of the entire species; the same for people in all cultures; contents are active and influence a person’s thoughts, emotions, and actions; responsible for a person’s myths, legends, and religious beliefs

Question 12

Archetypes

Answer 12

Ancient or archaic image that derive from the collective unconscious; similar to complexes; generalized and derive from the contents of the collective unconscious; psychic counterpart to instincts

Question 13

Instinct

Answer 13

An unconscious physical impulse toward action

Question 14

Most Notable Archetypes

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Persona, Shadow, Anima, Animus, Great Mother, Wise Old Man, Hero, Self

Question 15

Persona

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The side of personality that people show the world; our public face

Question 16

Shadow

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Archetype of darkness and repression, qualities we do not wish to acknowledge but attempt to hide from ourselves and other; consist of morally objectionable tendencies and a number of constrctive and creative qualities that we are reluctant to face

Question 17

First Test of Courage

Answer 17

Striving to know our shadow

Question 18

Anima

Answer 18

The feminine side of men; to master it, men must overcome intellectual barriers, delve into the far recesses of their unconscious, and realize the feminine side of their personality; represents irrational moods and feelings

Question 19

Animus

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Masculine archetype in women; represents symbolic of thinking and reasoning; responsible for thinkng and opinion in women

Question 20

Great Mother

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Represents two opposing forces - fertility and nourishment one one hand and power and destruction on another

Question 21

Wise Old Man

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Archetype of wisdom and meaning, symbolizes humans’ preexisting knowledge of the mysteries of life; unconsicous and cannot be directly experienced by a single individual; symbolized by life itself

Question 22

Hero

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Represented in mythology and legends as a powerful person, sometimes part god, who figts against great odds to conquer or vanquish evil in the form of dragons, monsters, serpents, or demons

Question 23

Self

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Archetype of archetypes; pulls together all archetypes and unites them in the process of self-realization; possesses conscious and personal unconscious components, mostly formed by collective unconscious images; symbolized by a person’s ideas of perfection, completion, and wholeness

Question 24

Mandala

Answer 24

Ultimate symbol of the self;

Question 25

To fully experience the self

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People must overcome their fear of the unconscious
Prevent their persona from dominating their personality
Recognize the dark side of themselves
Muster even greater courage to face their anima or animus

Question 26

Progression and Regression

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essential if people are to achieve individual growth or self-realization

Question 27

Progression

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Forward flow of psychic energy

Question 28

Regression

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Backward flow of psychic energy

Question 29

Attitude

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Predisposition to act or react in a characteristic direction

Question 30

Introversion

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Turning inward of psychic energy with an orientation toward the subjective; tuning in to their inner world with all its biases, fantasies, dreams, and individualized perceptions

Question 31

Extraversion

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Attitude distinguished by the turning outward of psychic energy so that a person is oriented toward the objective and away from the subjective; influenced by surroundings; focused on objective attitude while suppressing the subjective

Question 32

Functions of introverts and extraverts

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Sensing, Thinking, Feeling, and Intuiting

Question 33

Thinking

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Logical intellectual activity that produces a chain of ideas; can be both extraverted or intraverted depending on person’s basic attitude

Question 34

Extraverted Thinking People

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Rely heavily on concrete thoughts, but they may also use abstract ideas if these have been transmitted to them from without.

Question 35

Introverted Thinking People

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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