UWordwall/ Psychoanalytic theory Flashcards

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What is Personal conscious?

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The waking condition; knowing what is happening around oneself; the state of being conscious.

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What is personal unconscious?

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Those things that have been repressed, rejected from consciousness, something that has built up during the individual’s lifetime.

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what is collective unconscious?

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A storehouse of knowledge, experiences, and images shared by the human race, and regarded as the repository of memories, images and patterns of experiences called archetypes.

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what is archetypes?

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universal, inherited patterns of thought and behavior that reside in the collective unconscious

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what is the shadow?

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Our darker side, the part of ourselves we would prefer not to confront, those aspects we dislike. Seen in characters such as “the villain” or Satan/devil figures.

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What is the animus/anima

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  • motivation that causes one to act.
  • only aware of this in our dreams when we recognize these characteristics in someone else (projection).
  • The female and male parts of the psyche
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what is projection?

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When we recognize personal characteristics in another individual or their actions.

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what is the persona?

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The image we show to others; the mask we put on for the external world which may not be at all what we think ourselves to be inside.

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what is individuation?

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Accepting the different sides of ourselves, even those we dislike. If we reject some part of the self, we are likely to project that element onto someone else, seeing ourselves as incapable of being wrong or guilty.

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