Chapter 4: Jung and the Practice of Analytical Psychotherapy Flashcards
Jung’s Birthplace
Kesswil, Switzerland
Jung’s Family
Has a sister 9 years younger
Jung’s Mother
Housewife, became ill and had to be away for a significant period while Jung was 3
Jung’s Father
Clergyman, invested in his son’s intellectual development
Jung’s Mentors
Eugene Bleuler & Pierre Janet
Jung’s wife
Emma Rauschenbach, had 4 daughters and 1 son
Jung’s Overarching Emphasis
The great potential and creative energy residing within individuals and society
Unconscious
Source of great peril and wisdon to be approached respectfully and with a listening attitude; vast pool of forces, motives, predispositions, and energy in our psyches that is, at any given time, unavailable to our conscious mind but, when sought, can offer balance and health
Jungian Analytical Psychotherapy
Attempt to create by means of symbolic approach a dialectical relationship between consciousness and the unconscious
Entities of the Unconscious
Personal Unconscious
Collective Unconscious
Personal Unconscious
Particular to each individual and is material that was once conscious; contains information that has been forgotten or repressed but that might be made conscious again, under the right circumstances; includes dreams and fantasies
Collective Unconscious
Shared pool of motives, urges, fears, and potentialities that we inherit by being human; larger than personal unconscious. universally shared by all members of the human race. dreams and fantasies contain impersonal material that seems unrelated to personal experience emanate from this
Complexes
Challenging obstacles; As diverse as human experiences;
Archetypes
Can be seen as a great deal of energy which can be accessed in the right circumstances, should the valences be correct; takes the form of circumstances and individual propensities to match up
Persona
Archetype that takes and/or changes form where situation meets person; enables us to hold our inner selves together while interacting with the diverse distractions, temptations, provocations, and invitations the world offers us; The mask we wear, or the set of behaviors we engage in to accomplish what is expected in a given relationship; in reality what one is not, but which oneself as well as others think one is
Shadow
Aspect of our psyche we have either never known or have repressed; contains aspects of ourselves that we’ve been unable to accept; compensatory, on in direct, reciprocal relationship with the persona; needs to be understood and embraced
Anima and Animus
Feminine and Masculine principles present in all humans; an imprint, an archetype of all the ancestral experiences of the female or male, a deposit of all impressions ever made by a woman or a man
Self
Central, organizing archetype, the archetype of awareness of being; Internal embodiment of all wisdom and truth; helps us get connected with the spiritual around us
Personality Types
Extraversion
Introversion
Extraversion
An orientation to the outer world of people, things, and activities; characterized by an outgoing, candid, and accommodating nature that adapts easily to a given situation, quickly forms attachments, and setting aside any possible misgivings, will often venture forth with careless confidence into unknown situations
Introversion
An orientation to the inner world of concepts, ideas, and internal experience; characterized by a hestitant, reflective, retiring nature that keeps itself to itself, shrinks from objects, is always lightly defensive and prefers to hide behind mistrustful scrutiny
Function of Attitudes
Sensing
Feeling
Intuiting
Thinking
Perceiving Functions
Sensation - function that notices the real world around us and establishes the fact that something exists
Intuition - function that guesses or surmises the origins and direction of things and ideas
Rational Functions
Thinking- not influenced by values or concerns about well being
Feeling - informed by an assessment of values and the potential impact of choices on individuals and groups of people
Myers-Briggs Type Indicator
Standardized psychological assessment questionaire; Added judging and perceiving attitudes or orientations
Judging Attitude
use thinking or feeling when interacting with others; person who prefers a judging function desires to reach conclusions quickly and efficiently
Perceiving Attitude
Involves the habitual use of the perceiving functions, sensing or intuiting when dealing with the outside world; cope well with interruptions and diversions from a given plan
Jungian Psychopathology
Individuals seeks counseling because they are summoned by their unconscious; People seek help due to a vague, unspecified happiness or discontent;
Healthy Jungian Trajectory for Human Life
Toward individuation and transformation throughout life;
Journey Toward Individuation
Inner journey toward completeness, or authenticity, and it takes shape at the beginning of the second half of life
Steps towards the Journey toward Individuation
Persona and Authenticity
Making Peace with the Dark Side
Integrating the Anima and the Animus
Transcendence, Wholeness, and Fully Conscious Living
Persona and Authenticity
Dropping more obvious facades and striving to be genuinely ourselves, no matter what the social demands might be. Who am I, really? Deep down, at my core, who am I? When all the fluff and posturing and superficial masks are taken away, who am I?
Making Peace With the Dark Side
Resolving the opposites we embody and to make peace with longings and urges we’ve pushed aside or denied
Integrating the Animal Animus
Getting in touch with the opposite-sex archetype each of us embodies; Being comfortably androgynous
Transendence, Wholeness, Fully Conscious Living
Moving us toward a spiritually whole place where one encounters, welcomes, and brings to full consciousness the God Within, the Wise Old Man, or the Great Mother; Self is consciously honored leading to a teanscendent sense of self-actualization, or psychic wholeness
Jungian Therapy
Assisted conversation between the client’s conscious and unconsicous on a symbolic level through the dream; Pay attention to life’s irrational irritations, attractions, fears, and joys, believing that there is a rich symbolic information contained therein
Sychronicity
Coincidences, or non-controlled happenings that matched up with other happenings, or needs, and resulted in an answer, or in new knowledge
Clients of Jungian Therapy
Need to keep dream journals and write down other impressions that come to them during the week; ongoing assessment of archetypal manifestations and conflicts reflected in the client’s dreams and life struggles;
Trusting the Dream
Practical Perspective
Spiritual Perspective
Practical Perspective
Fostering understanding and reducing interpersonal conflict; use of dreaams to enhance personal growth and highlight important aspects of the dreamer’s life and journey; Dreams had to do with present situations in the dreamer’s life, if meditated upon, the meaning would finally come
Guidelines for Jungian Approach to Dream Work
Find a strategy to remember dreams
Know that persona archetypes show themselves in dreams as shelter, coverings, constumes, masks, and other externally defining features of a character
Shadow archetype appears as a character of the same sex as a dreamer but with different values and orientations; disgusting, frightening, tricky or hidden
Opposite sex figures might represent the anima or animus
Self or God like archetype are wise older characters who have something to show or offer the dreamer
Overall theme and emotional valences in the dream will be related to the dreamer’s current life, pay attention to the relationship in the waking world (if dream involves a relationship)
Difficult dream may have a theme to compensate for something in one’s waking life
Insight may be gained by having conversations with characters in the dream
Dreams can be related to one another
Spiritual perspective
Dream speaks of religion; It is a basic religious phenomenon and that the voice which speaks in our dreams is not our own but comes from a source transcending us
