THOP4 Flashcards
He saw his mother as having
two separate dispositions. On one hand, she
was realistic, practical, and warmhearted, but
on the other, she was unstable, mystical,
clairvoyant, archaic, and ruthless.
strongly asserted
that the most important portion of the
unconscious springs not from personal
experiences of the individual but from the
distant past of human existence, a concept
Jung called the collective unconscious.
Carl Jung
caused Jung
to harbor animosity toward his wife,
but a more likely explanation is that
Jung needed more than one woman
to satisfy the two aspects of his
personality.
However, the two women who shared
Jung’s life for nearly 40 years were his
wife Emma and another former
patient named Antonia
“mother complex”
Jung believed that each of us is motivated not
only by repressed experiences but also by
certain emotionally toned experiences inherited
from our ancestors. These inherited images
make up what Jung called the _____
are inherited and pass from one generation to the next as psychic potential.
We can also find in the unconscious qualities that are not individually acquired but are inherited, e.g. instincts as impulses to carry out actions from necessity, without conscious motivation.
collective unconscious
Some elements of the collective unconscious
become highly developed an are called
____
are cognitive categories, or predispositions that humans are born with to think, feel, preceive, and act in specific ways
cannot be directly represented, but
when activated, it expresses itself through several
modes, primarily dreams, fantasies, and delusions.
is the model image of a person or role and includes the mother figure, father, wise old man and clown/joker, amongst others. The mother figure, for example, has caring qualities; she is dependable and compassionate. We all hold similar ideas of the mother figure and we see her across cultures and in our language - such as the term ‘mother nature’.
archetypes
The most inclusive archetype is the notion of
____which can be achieved only by
attaining a balance between various opposing
forces of personality.
self-realization,
According to Jung, conscious images are those that are sensed by the ego, whereas
unconscious elements have no relationship with the ego.
Ego - the center of consciousness but not the core of personality
Ego is not the whole personality, but must be completed by the more comprehensive self,
the center of personality that is largely unconscious.
In a psychologically healthy person, the ego takes a secondary position to the unconscious
self.Thus, consciousness plays a relatively minor role in analytical psychology, and an
overemphasis on expanding one’s conscious psyche can lead to psychological imbalance.
Healthy individuals are in contact with their conscious world, but they also allow
themselves to experience their unconscious self and thus to achieve individuation
CONSCIOUS
embraces all repressed, forgotten, or subliminally perceived experiences of one particular individual.
“There are certain events of which we have not consciously taken note; they have remained,
so to speak, below the threshold of consciousness. They have happened, but they have been
absorbed subliminally” (Carl Jung)
PERSONAL
UNCONSCIOUS
- sub-personalities which
have the potential to exert a
powerful control over one’s
thoughts, emotions, and
behaviors
is an emotionally toned conglomeration of
associated ideas. For example, a person’s experiences
with Mother may become grouped around an emotional core so that the person’s mother, or even the word “mother,” sparks an emotional response that blocks the smooth flow of thought.
COMPLEXES
“One interesting and important feature of the personal
unconcious is that groups of contents may come together to form a cluster or constellation. Jung called them complexes..when we say a person has a complex we meanhe is strong preoccupied by something that he can hardly think about anything else. In modern parlance, he has a ____ A strong complex is easily noticed by others, although the person himself may not be aware of it.
hang up
- suffer from over expression in consciousness
Inflated parts of the psyche
- lack of proper expression in consciousness
Deflated parts of the psyche
confronting contents of the unconscious to bring about a more harmonious
balance between the different parts of the psyche
means becoming a single,
homogeneous being, and in so far as ‘individuality’
embraces our innermost, last, and incomparable
uniqueness, it also implies becoming one’s own self.
We could therefore translate ____ as ..
‘selfrealization.
INDIVIDUATION:
The ____ represent the social mask that each of us
wear in our interaction with others in society.
Although the ___ is a necessary side of our
personality, we should not confuse our public face with our complete self. If we identify too closely with our ____ we remain unconscious of our individuality and are blocked from attaining self-realization To become psychologically healthy, Jung believed, we must
strike a balance between the demands of society and what we truly are
Persona
The ____ the archetype of darkness and repression, represents those qualities we do not wish to acknowledge but attempt to hide from ourselves and others.
Jung contended that, to be whole, we must continually strive to know our ___ and that this quest is our first test of courage.
“Unfortunately there can be no doubt that man is, on the whole, less good than he imagines himself or wants to be. everyone carries a ___, and the less it is embodied in the individual’s conscious life, the blacker and denser it is. If an inferiority is conscious, one always has a chance to correct it.. but if it is repressed and isolated from consciousness, it never gets corrected”
shadow,
- feminine side of men
Few men become well acquainted with their anima because this task requires great courage and is even more difficult than becoming acquainted with their shadow. To master the projections of the anima,
men must overcome intellectual barriers, delve into the far recesses of their unconscious, and realize the feminine side of their personality
Anima
