Psychoanalysis: Jung (Lexicon) [needs work, please help] Flashcards
Collective Unconscious
This is a level of unconscious shared with other members of the human species comprising latent memories from our ancestral and evolutionary past.
- what makes us human
- passed down from generation to generation
Symbol
“The true symbol differs essentially from this, and should be understood as an expression of an intuitive idea that cannot yet be formulated in any other or better way.”
an image that stands for a partially unknown psychological reality
Introverted Art
The introverted attitude is characterized by the subject’s assertion of his conscious intentions and aims against the demands of the object
Extraverted Art
The extraverted attitude is characterized by the subject’s subordination to the demands which the object makes
upon him.
For Jung, only extraverted art can really be analyzed as “symbolic”
Autonomous complex
“a detached portion of the psyche, leads an independent psychic life, withdrawn from the hierarchy of consciousness” (223)
Jung argues that the creative process or creative energy can be defined as this
Collective Unconscious
Shared with all humans. Comprised of latent memories from our ancestral and evolutionary past.
Archetype
Images and thoughts which have universal meanings across cultures which may show up in dreams, literature, art or religion.
Symbols from different cultures are similar because they have emerged from archetypes shared by the whole human race.
How did Jung redefine subjectivity?
- its relation to the race, not the individual
- terms like shadow, anima, persona- passed down and reflected in lit.
- individualization- interested in how we become individuals through our relationship to the collective unconscious
*archetypes
What did Jung call the autonomous complex?
instinctive structure of the mind
*being in the zone
What is one of the reasons Jung fell out of favor?
interested in universals
