Module 3: Analytical Psychology Flashcards
What rests on the assumption that occult (supernatural) phenomena can and do influence the lives of everyone?
Analytical psychology
Who is the main proponent of analytical psychology?
Carl Gustav Jung
What are individuals motivated by when it comes to analytical psychology?
Inherited emotionally toned experience is what motivates individuals more than repressed experiences.
What is emphasized in analytical psychology?
Collective unconscious
What are the highly developed elements of the collective unconscious?
Archetypes
What is the most inclusive archetype?
Self-realization
How can self-realization be achieved?
It can be achieved through attaining a balance between two opposite forces.
What is analytical psychology a collection (compendium) of?
Opposite forces
What is a collection (compendium) of opposite forces?
Analytical psychology
What did Jung base his personality theory on?
He based it on the assumption of the mind (what he calls the psyche) having both an unconscious and conscious level.
What is the most important aspect of the unconscious?
The collective unconscious.
What are conscious images?
Elements perceived by the ego.
What are the elements perceived by the ego?
Conscious images.
What is the center of consciousness?
The ego.
What is not the core of personality?
The ego.
What must the ego be completed by?
The more comprehensive self.
What is the center of personality that is largely unconscious?
The self.
What is a psychologically healthy individual for Jung?
He or she is an individual in contact with their conscious world while he or she also gets to get in touch with their unconscious.
What are the levels of the psyche?
The conscious (ego), personal unconscious, and the collective unconscious.
What level of the psyche is concerned with perceiving, thinking, feeling and remembering?
The conscious.
How did Jung perceive the unconscious?
He perceived it as something positive.
What is the conscious responsible for?
Carrying out the normal tasks of waking life.
What level of the psyche has the responsibility to carry out normal tasks of waking life?
The consicous.
What level of mental life is the personal unconscious similar to?
The preconscious.
What is the personal unconscious?
It is the reservoir of material that was once conscious but has been forgotten or suppressed because it was trivial or disturbing.
What are the contents of our personal unconscious?
Complexes
What refers to a core or pattern of emotions, memories, perceptions, and wishes in the personal unconscious organized around a common theme?
Complexes
What are complexes?
Complexes refer to a core or pattern of emotions, memories, perceptions, and wishes in the personal unconscious organized around a common theme.
What do complexes determine?
It determines how the person perceives the world.
Where have complexes originated from?
Childhood, adult, and ancestral experiences.
True or false. The complex can only entirely be either one of the following: conscious or unconscious.
False. Complexes may be either conscious or unconscious.
What does the collective unconscious represent in terms of Jung’s career?
It represents Jung’s most controversial and distinctive concept of personality.
What does the deepest level of the psyche contain?
It contains an accumulation of inherited experiences of human and pre-human species.
What is the collective unconscious?
It is the powerful and controlling repository of ancestral experiences.
Where else, other than our childhood, is our history linked to according to Jung?
It is also linked in the history of our species.
Do humans literally inherit collective experiences?
No. Instead, we inherit the potentiality (e.g. fear of snakes - we do not inherit the fear of snakes, but instead we inherit the potential to fear snakes).
According to Jung, in what way are humans inclined to behave and feel?
Humans are inclined to behave and feel the same way people have in the past.
Where does the inclination of behaving the same way humans have before depend on when it wants to become a reality?
It depends on the specific experiences we encounter in life.
What has characterized every generation throughout human history?
Certain basic experiences.
What refers to the images of universal experiences contained in the collective unconscious?
Archetypes
What word are archetypes also coined as?
Primordial (ancient) images.
How are archetypes similar to complexes?
They are similar in a way that they are emotionally toned collections of associated images.
What is the difference between archetypes and complexes?
Archetypes are generalized and derive from contents of the collective unconscious, while complexes are individualized components located in the personal unconscious.
Where have archetypes originated?
They have originated through repeated experiences of human ancestors, but likewise have a biological basis.