Jung's View of Human Nature Flashcards
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Disagreed with Freud on Instincts being the major force of behavior and Psychological Determinism (Freudian Slip)
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Carl Jung (1875 - 1961)
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- Disagreed with the emphasis on ID/sexulity
- People are competent, creative problem solvers - not merely mangers of impluses
- Had more emphasis on ego and a sense of self: NEO-ANALYTIC or EGO PSYCHOLOGY
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View of human nature
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- Personality does not end in childhood
- Middle age not childhood is a key period
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Jung’s View of Personality
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Ego - the conscious mind “I”
- Personal Unconscious
- Collective Unconscious
- STRONG emphasis on unconscious
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Consciousness
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Ego - the center of consciousness
- how you see yourself
- not a slave to unconscious impulses (unlike Freud)
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Jung’s Theory of the Unconscious was influenced by other fields like
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- Anthropology, archaeology, history, religion, and mythology
- Noticed common themes/ stories across cultures, history, and geography
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Personal Unconscious
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- Similar to Freud’s idea of unconscious
- Ideas or events that were at one time conscious but have been forgotten
- Different for all people
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Carl Jung believed we are programmed
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- to see how and accept certain ideas
- because of our own past experience
- because of cumulative past experiences of our ancestors
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Unconscious Lore
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Human experience is passed on through dreams, symbols, myths, legends, folklore, fairy tales, etc.
- Consistent themes across cultures, geography, history, suggests a collective unconscious
- How information is passed down to us
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Collective Unconscious
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Deepest level of inherited ancestral experiences dating to prehistoric times and common to all humans
- belongs to all of us (part of the human condition)
- inherited
- the same for all people
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The Important of Dreams
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- Jung thought dreams were important and carried meaning and may predict future events
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Synchrocity
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Visions and dreams are important messages from the collective unconscious
