p2 - topic 5: neoanalytic perspective (jung)

Question 1

psyche - complexes

Answer 1

part of personal unconscious
core patterns of emotions, memories, perceptions and wishes in the personal unconscious organised around a common theme

Question 2

jung’s typology

Answer 2

classifications to describe distinctions between people
- introversion: consciousness flows inward
- extraversion: consciousness flows outward
- basic functions of thought/functions of consciousness/jungian quaternary: sensing, intuiting, thinking, feeling

Question 3

psyche - collective unconscious

Answer 3

shared by all humans, influence our shared behaviours and responses, key to collective identity
deepest most inaccessible layer of psyche

Question 4

psyche - archetypes

Answer 4

evolved cognitive structures which influence emotions, thoughts, behaviours
consistently recurring types of situations or types of figures which arise from collective experience, universal, inherited idea (cannot be perceived directly, images / symbols)

Question 5

psyche - personal unconscious

Answer 5

key to self-knowledge, repressed memories, simply forgotten elements, painful ideas all affecting personality functions
unconscious desires

Question 6

psyche - persona

Answer 6

mask which we wish to show
helps us to deal with society’s norms

Question 7

jung’s concepts and theories

Answer 7

• typologies
• complexes
• collective unconscious
• archetypes
• individuation

Question 8

psyche - consciousness

Answer 8

function or activity which maintains relation of psychic contentes to the ego (field of awareness)
ego is the gatekeeper, influences which experiences are ignored / reflected on
contains conscious thoughts of our own behaviour + feelings and memories of our experience)

Question 9

neoanalytic differences from freud

Answer 9

• more emphasis on conscious
• adult life experiences influences personality too
• social and cultural forces shape individual
• behaviour is goal driven not only instinct driven
• freudian theory is generally negative

Question 10

psyche - self

Answer 10

goal of individuation process is the proper expression of the self
connection of self leads to greater sense of harmony both within one self and within world as a whole
totality of our psyche, sum total of our consciousness and unconsciousness

Question 11

psyche - anima/us

Answer 11

anima: fem aspects of male psyche
animus: male aspect of female psyche

Question 12

neoanalytic similarities to freud

Answer 12

• acceptance of unconscious
• focus on past and early childhood experiences
• anxiety and defense mechanisms

Question 13

neoanalytic perspective emphasises…

Answer 13

ego development and how it functions in relationships
social relationships and unconscious

Question 14

psyche - shadow

Answer 14

feared or unknown aspects hidden from self and others
traits leading to judgment, loss of acceptance, shame
related to personal unconscious (forgotten or repressed experiences from personal history that affect behaviour and emotions)

Question 15

what did jung thing of libido in his neoanalytic theory

Answer 15

libido signifies a more general life-process energy in which sexual urges are only an aspect of it