Lesson 4 Flashcards
Analysis of individual’s psyche and the exploration of the deep, unconscious layer of the mind.
Analytical psychology
Refers to the process of examining, understanding, and interpreting various elements of the psyche, including, symbols, dreams, and archetypes.
Analytical
(Analytical psychology)
Center of the consciousness but not the center of the personality
Ego
Embraces all repressed, forgotten, or subliminally perceived experienced of one particular individual
Personal unconscious
Repressed infantile memories and impulses, forgotten events, and experiences originally perceived below the threshold of our unconscious.
Personal unconscious
an emotionally toned conglomeration of associated ideas.
Complexes
Has roots in the ancestral past of the entire species
Collective unconscious
The physical contents are inherited and pass from one generation to the next as psychic potential.
Collective unconscious
Ancient or archaic images that derive from the collective unconscious
Archetypes
have a biological basis but originate through the repeated experiences of humans’ early ancestors.
Phylogenetic Endowment
Archetypes express itself through several modes:
Dreams, fantasies, and delusion
suggests that certain symbols, myths, and themes are deeply ingrained in the human psyche due to their recurrence across cultures and time periods
Phylogenetic endowment
The side of the personality that people show to the world.
Persona
We should project a particular role that society dictates to each of us.
Persona
The arch types of darkness and repression.
Shadow
Ot represents those qualities that we do not wish to acknowledge but attempt to hide from ourselves and others
Shadow
Consists of morally objectionable tendencies as well as a number of constructive and creative qualities that we, nevertheless, are reluctant to face.
Shadows
Refers to the feminine inner personality present in the unconscious mind of a man.
Anima
The masculine archetype in women.
Animus
is symbolic of thinking and reasoning.
Animus
the explanation for the irrational thinking and illogical opinions often attributed to women.
Animus
Great mother represents two opposing forces
Positive:
Fertility and nourishment
Negative:
Power and destruction
Archetype of wisdom
Wise old man
Humans’ pre-existing knowledge of the mysteries of life.
Wise old man
Represented in mythology and legends as a powerful person, sometimes part god, who fights against great odds to conquer or vanquish evil in the form of dragons, monsters, serpents, or demons
Hero
Inherited tendency to move toward growth, perfection, and completion.
Self
Archetype of all archetypes, it pulls together the other archetypes and unites them in the process of self-realization
Self
Represents the strivings of the collective unconscious for unity, balance, and wholeness.
Mandala
Adaptation to the outside world involves the forward flow of psychic energy is
Progression
Adaption to the inner world relies in the backward flow of the energy is
Regression
Predisposition to act in a characteristic direction
Attitudes
The inward of the psychic energy with the orientation toward the subjective
Introversion
They are tuned in to their inner world with all its biases, fantasies, dreams, and individualized perception.
Introverts
The attitudes distinguished by turning outward the psychic energy so that a person is oriented toward the objective and away from the subjective
Extraversion
More influenced by their surroundings than their inner world.
Extravert
A logical intellectual activity that produces a chain of ideas.
Thinking
People rely heavily on concrete thoughts, but they may also use abstract ideas if this ideas have been transmitted to them.
Extraverted thinking
People reacts to external stimuli, but their interpretation of an event is colored more by their internal meaning they bring with them than objective facts themselves.
Introverted thinking
Relates to the way individuals make decisions and judgements based on their subjective values and personal considerations.
Feeling
People use objective data to make evaluations. They are not much guided by their subjective opinion, but by external values and widely accepted standards.
Extraverted feeling
People base their value judgement primarily on subjective perception rather than objective facts.
Introverted feeling
The function that receives physical stimuli and transmits them to perceptual consciousness.
Sensing
people perceive external stimuli objectively, in much the same way that these stimuli exist in reality.
Extraverted sensing
people are largely influenced by their subjective sensations of sight, sound, taste, touch, and so forth.
Introverted sensing
Intuition involves perception beyond the workings of consciousness.
Intuiting
people are oriented toward facts in the external world. Rather than fully sensing them, however, they merely perceive them subliminally
Extraverted intuitive
people are guided by unconscious perception of facts that are basically subjective and have little or no resemblance to external reality.
Introverted intuitive
characterized by chaotic and sporadic consciousness. “Islands of consciousness” may exist, but there is little or no connection among these islands
Anarchic phase
characterized by the development of the ego and by the beginning of logical and verbal thinking.
Monarchic phase
the ego as perceiver arises, when the ego is divided into the objective and subjective. Children now refer to themselves in the first person and are aware of their existence as separate individuals.
Dualistic
The period from puberty to middle life
Youth
Young people strive to gain psychic and individual independence from their parents, find a mate, raise a family, and make a place in the world.
Youth
The desire to live in the past
Conservative Principle
Begin approximately at the age of 35 or 40
Middle life
Period of tremendous opportunity in life
Middle life
They become rigid and fanatical in maintaining their physical attractiveness and agaility
Middle life
Phase that involves a deeper exploration of the self— in connection with archetype of wisdom
Old life
Psychological rebirth— individuation. The process of becoming an individual or whole person.
Self-realization
Extremely rare and is achieved only by people who are able to assimilate their unconscious into their total personality.
Self-realization
The basic purpose of the test is to uncover feeling-toned complexes.
World association test
This method requires a person to begin with any impression— a dream image, vision, picture, or fantasy—and to concentrate until the impression begins to “move.” The purpose of _________________ is to reveal archetypal images emerging from the unconscious.
Active imagination
A term used to describe the feelings of therapist towards its client
Countertransference
