Jung Flashcards
levels of the psyche
- conscious
- personal unconscious
- collective unconscious
represents images caused by the ego
conscious
center of consciousness but not the center of personality
ego
ego is just secondary to the unconscious self, but must be _____ to have a more comprehensive self
completed
psychological imbalance is due to the overemphasis of the _________
consciousness
may only be achieved if they are in contact with the conscious world but allow themselves to experience their unconscious self
individualization
embraces all repressed, forgotten, or subliminally perceived experiences of a person
personal unconscious
personal unconscious includes:
- infantile memories and impulses
- forgotten events and experiences
contents of the personal unconscious
complexes
inherited and passed from one generation to the next as psychic potential
collective unconscious
generalized collection of emotionally toned associated images
archetypes
archetypes is the psychic counterpart of ______ and it help shape ______
- instinct
- personality
what does archetype states?
all humans are psychologically bisexual
unconscious physical impulse towards action
instincts
8 archetypes
- anima
- animus
- persona
- shadow
- great mother
- wise old man
- self
- hero
female component of the male psyche
anima
male component of the female psyche
animus
anima represents irrational moods and feelings while animus symbolizes ______
thinking and reasoning
one’s public self
persona
archetype of darkness and repression
shadow
shadow contains all _____
animal instincts
pre-existing concept of mother associated with both positive and negative feelings
great mother
positive feelings of great mother
fertility and nourishment
negative feeling of great mother
power and destruction
archetype of wisdom and meaning
wise old man
powerful person, god, or demi-god fighting against great odds to conquer or vanquish evil
hero
inherited tendency to move toward growth, perfection, and completion
self
self is the archetypes of _____
all archetypes
ultimate symbol of self
mandala
part of the great mother archetype in which it is the innate desire to reach self-realization, nirvana, heaven, or perfection
rebirth
represents the strivings of the collective unconscious for unity, balance, and wholeness
mandala
central concept in Jung’s psychological theory
individualization/individuation
two orientations / attitudes of the psyche
- introversion
- extroversion
inward towards the subjective world of the individual
introversion
outward towards the external environment
extroversion
person who tends to be sociable, outgoing, and interested in people and things
extrovert
person who tends to be quiet, imaginative, and more interested in ideas than in other people
introvert
4 functions of thought
- sensing
- thinking
- feeling
- intuiting
tells what a thing is; gives name to things that are sensed
thinking
hunches about past or future events when factual information is not available
intuiting
detects the presence of things’ something is there but does not indicate what it is
sensing
tells whether a thing is acceptable or unacceptable, liking or disliking
feeling
stages of development
- childhood
- young adulthood
- middle life
- old age
60 and older
old age
birth to adolescence
childhood
adolescence to middle age
young adulthood
35-40 to 60
middle life
stage wherein an individual gains psychic and physical independence; and the major difficulty is to overcome the tendency to cling to the narrow consciousness of childhood
young adulthood
stage of accepting death
old age
stage of transformation from an energetic, extrovert and biologically oriented individual to one with a more sophisticated cultural philosophical and spiritual sense of value
middle life
stage wherein libidinal energy is expanded on learning to walk, talk, and other skills necessary for survival
childhood
substages of childhood
- anarchic
- monarchic
- dualistic
substage of childhood:
ego development; logic and verbal thinking
monarchic
substage of childhood:
chaotic and sporadic consciousness
anarchic
substage of childhood:
established ego; aware of existence as separate individuals; structured consciousness
dualistic
heightened in old age stage
rebirth and self-realization
self realization is also called
individualization
psychological rebirth and the process of becoming an individual or whole person
self-realization
self realization is coming to ______
selfhood
3 dynamics of personality
- principle of equivalence
- principle of entropy
- causality and teleology
- progression and regression
the distribution of energy in the psyche seeks an equilibrium or balance
principle of entropy
if a particular value weakens or disappears, the sum of energy represented by the value will not be lost from the psyche but will reappear of another value
principle of equivalence
what a person will become is a function of what one has been in the past
causality
human behavior has a purpose, it is drawn by the future as much as it is pushed by the past
teleology
______ is the forward flow of psychic energy while _____ is the backward flow of psyche energy
- progression
- regression
activates the unconscious psyche
regression
inclines a person to react consistently to a given set of environmental conditions
progression
methods of investigation
- word association test
- dream analysis
- active imagination
- psychotherapy
to uncover elements from the personal and collective unconscious
dream analysis
used to detect complexes
word association test
begins with imagining any impressions and to freely communicate with these images
active imagination
psychotherapy method of jung
transformation or working towards self-realization
psychology of opposites
analytical psychology
a therapist’s feelings toward the patient
countertransference
