Jung

Question 1

anima 

Answer 1

Jungian archetype that represents the feminine component in the personality of males and originates from men’s inherited experiences with women.

Question 2

animus 

Answer 2

Jungian archetype that represents the masculine component in the personality of females and originates from women’s inherited experiences with men.

Question 3

archetypes 

Answer 3

refers to the contents of the collective unconscious. also called primordial images or collective symbols, represent psychic patterns of inherited behavior Typical archetypes are the anima, animus, and shadow.

Question 4

attitude

Answer 4

A predisposition to act or react in a characteristic manner, that is, in either an introverted or an extraverted direction.

Question 5

complexes

Answer 5

An emotionally toned conglomeration of ideas that comprise the contents of the personal unconscious.

Jung originally used the word association test to uncover complexes.

Question 6

conscious

Answer 6

Mental images that are sensed by the ego and that play a relatively minor role in Jungian theory.

Question 7

ego

Answer 7

The center of consciousness. In Jungian psychology, the ego is of lesser importance than the more inclusive self and is limited to consciousness.

Question 8

extraversion

Answer 8

An attitude or type marked by the turning outward of psychic energy so that a person is oriented toward the objective world.

Question 9

feeling

Answer 9

A rational function that tells us the value of something. The feeling function can be either extraverted (directed toward the objective world) or introverted (directed toward the subjective world).

Question 10

individuation

Answer 10

the process of becoming a whole person, that is, an individual with a high level of psychic development.

Question 11

instinct

Answer 11

An unconscious physical impulse toward action. Instincts are the physical counterpart of archetypes.

Question 12

introversion

Answer 12

An attitude or type characterized by the turning inward of psychic energy with an orientation toward the subjective.

Question 13

intuition

Answer 13

An irrational function that involves perception of elementary data that are beyond our awareness. Intuitive people “know” something without understanding how they know.

Question 14

progression

Answer 14

The forward flow of psychic energy; involves the extraverted attitude and movement toward adaptation to the external world.

Question 15

regression

Answer 15

The backward flow of psychic energy; regression involves the introverted attitude and movement toward adaptation to the internal world.

Question 16

self

Answer 16

The most comprehensive of all archetypes, the self includes the whole of personality, although it is mostly unconscious. The self is often symbolized by the mandala motif.

Question 17

self-realization

Answer 17

The highest possible level of psychic maturation; necessitates a balance between conscious and unconscious, ego and self, masculine and feminine, and introversion and extraversion. All four functions (thinking, feeling, sensing, and intuiting) would be fully developed by self-realized people.

Question 18

sensation

Answer 18

An irrational function that receives physical stimuli and transmits them to perceptual consciousness. People may rely on either extraverted sensing (outside perceptions) or on introverted sensing (internal perceptions).

Question 19

shadow

Answer 19

archetype representing the inferior or dark side of personality.

Question 20

thinking

Answer 20

A rational function that tells us the meaning of an image that originates either from the external world (extraverted) or from the internal world (introverted).

Question 21

types

Answer 21

Classification of people based on the two-dimensional scheme of attitudes and functions. The two attitudes of extraversion and introversion and the four functions of thinking, feeling, sensing, and intuiting combine to produce eight possible types.

Question 22

Collective conciousness

Answer 22

inherited images from emotionally toned experiences inherited from our ancestors.

Question 23

mandala

Answer 23

represents the strivings of the collective unconscious for unity, balance, and wholeness.

Question 24

conservative principle

Answer 24

the desire to live in the past and not move on from childhood or youth.