Exam 1_Jung Flashcards
Explain Jung’s structure of the personality: ego, personal unconscious, and the collective unconscious.
Ego: One’s conscious mind
Personal unconscious: Perceptions, thoughts, feelings that are easily retrieved, organized into complexes, repressed experiences.
Collective Unconscious: Universal thought-forms. We come from different cultures but share similar roles in groups and emotional experiences. Expressed as archetypes.
How does the collective unconscious differ from the personal unconscious?
The personal unconscious is unique to the individual. The collective unconscious is shared by all people, generations, and cultures (genetic memory).
What is a complex and give examples.
The complex may organize around a person or object. Complexes cover all levels of consciousness and may dominate personality. An example is a God complex.
How is the collective unconscious passed on to generations?
Genetic memory?
Explain the concept of archetypes, give examples and discuss how it changes a personality.
Universal ideals or behavioral predispositions to respond to the environment in certain ways. Examples are “the hero” and “the innocent”. Jung believes they represent our hidden behavior potential. We are never consciously aware of them. They are sensed through symbols. We unconsciously guide our behavior through them?
Explain persona, self, shadow.
Persona: Social role one assumes. A compromise between true identity and public identity.
Shadow: Unsocial thoughts, feelings, and actions we potentially have but do not accept. (Evil side of us)
Self: Striving unity of all personality characteristics. Harmonizes all archetypes. Different parts of the personality are expressed.
What is the psyche wheel?
A wheel of opposites. The true self emerges when the opposites coincide. Hidden parts of self only degrade the true self.
