Chapter 4 - Jung Flashcards
What is a complex?
An emotionally toned conglomeration of associated ideas
What is the personal unconscious?
- formed by repressed experiences of one particular individual
- reservoir of complexes
How do Jung’s ideas of conscious mind and ego differ from Freud’s?
- conscious images are those sensed by the ego
- ego is core of consciousness but not core of personality (which he would call “self”)
What is the collective unconscious?
- has roots in ancestral past of entire species
- contents more or less the same for everyone, regardless of culture
- source of archetypes
What are archetypes?
- similar to complexes only universal & derived from collective rather than personal unconscious
- psychic counterpart of an instinct
What is an instinct, according to Jung?
- an unconscious physical impulse toward action
- physical counterpart of an archetype
What are the eight main archetypes that Jung identified?
- persona: personality shown to world
- shadow: darkness & repression
- animus: masculine in women
- anima: feminine in men
- great mother: nurturing & destruction
- wise old man: wisdom & meaning
- hero: fighting evil; fatal flaw
- self: tendency towards growth, perfection, & completion
What is Jung’s concept of self-realization?
- highest possible level of psychic maturation
- requires balance of conscious/unconscious, ego/self, masculine/feminine, & introversion/extraversion
- all four functions fully developed
- also called this individuation
What are progression and regression, according to Jung?
- progression = adaptation to outside world; outward flow of psychic energy
- regression = adaptation to inner world; inward flow of psychic energy
How did Jung classify psychological types?
According to attitudes & functions
What attitudes did Jung identify?
- introversion: turning inward of psychic energy; subjectivity
- extraversion: turning outward of psychic energy; objectivity
What are the functions Jung identified?
- thinking
- feeling (valuing/evaluating)
- sensing
- intuiting
What are the stages of development, according to Jung?
- childhood: anarchic, monarchic, & dualistic phases
- youth: striving for independence; extraversion
- middle life: introversion; new meaning
- old age: acceptance of death
What are four methods of investigation employed by Jung?
- word association test (identify complexes)
- dream analysis
- active imagination
- psychotherapy
• confession (catharsis)
• interpretation & explanation
• social education
• transformation (individuation)
