Week 1- Jung Flashcards
Things that contribute to human suffering
- Culture of work
- Loneliness
- People less connected with nature
- Technology- Comparing yourself
How are humans symbolic
Art
Burials
Tools
Symbolic meaning in humans
Moving from the present moment into something virtual
Humans as finite animals
Working memory: Can keep 7 +/-2 pieces of info in our mind (Miller)
What kind of animal are we
Symbolic
Finitary
in need of frames
Frames
Delimit what is relevant
Need these so we can act in the world and know what’s relevant
Local frames
Categories that inform us of things motivational relevance eg. emotion
Larger frames
Eg. Culture: Fundamental purpose is to provide the firm structures for human life that are lacking biologically.. can never have the stability that marks the structures of the animal world
Separation from culture is the danger f=of meaninglessness
Pre-modern ideas
Intuitive, poetic imaginative information processing mode
What you perceive is real
The ‘sacred’ (more real) shows itself to us in experience eg. the sun
Relational and participatory- all is alive
Buber said
You can treat nature, other people or yourself as a thing (it) or as a thou (something that has agency and should be deeply valued)
Western disembedding- Language
We became less participatory with the development of written language.
Hieroglyphic language contained ‘things’- People were more connected with things
Language with the Greeks became a phonetic language- No longer connected with the world, became about human sounds
Western disembedding- Religious/ philosophical
Judaism: More emphasis on behaviour
Luther: What’s important is the individual’s relationship with the divine
Importance of the self and assigning meaning- Not just what you do it’s what you think
Enlightenment and scientific revolution
Disenchantment of the world
What’s important can be abstracted as numbers
Modernity
Rationalization
Intellectualization
Jungs type of response
Romanticism
-Reaction to enlightenment
-Reaction to industrialism and capitalism
(This degrades humans and nature)
Common themes of Jungs romantic response
-Deep respect of nature
-Divine exists in nature and in the human psyche (unconscious irrational forces but with a rational aim of realizing potential)
-Transformation of heroic quest to interior spiritual journey
-Importance of imagination
-Importance of symbol and myth
Autopoiesis
Humans are self-organizing in a way that wants to maintain, expand and continue on its existence
Adaptation
Humans change in relation to their environment
Opponent processing
Exploitation and exploration
Sympathetic nervous system
Activation so you can fight and explore
- Causes stress if activated all the time
Parasympathetic nervous system
Recovering and restoring our body (eating, resting, digesting)
Piaget- Processes that contribute to progression to be more sophisticated
Assimilation
Accommodation
Assimilation
Using your understanding of the world to digest incoming info
Incorporate into an existing schema
Accommodation
modification of a period schema
Complexification
When you assimilate/accommodate as necessary
Becoming a more complex being
What was once important to you is no longer
Become self-transcendent
Equilibration
Piaget’s theory of developmental change via schema
Jungian analytic psychology
-We are self-regulating beings that achieve adaptation through opponent processes, which can lead to complexification (a more comprehensive way of being in the world).
-The psyche is a self-regulating system that is aiming for wholeness through opponent processes which can lead to complexification.
-Shift from the ego to the self
-Consciousness is only part of the psyche and rests on something larger and mysterious (the unconscious)
-Process that guides adaptation/ wholeness via opponent processing is unconscious
-Unconscious has a different ‘language’ compared to consciousness
Psychological suffering (Jung)
-Symptoms represent blocking of the processes that are aiming for wholeness/ adaptation
-Symptoms have meaning
-They are related to the future orientation of the aim toward wholeness/adaptation
- Something needs to be addressed to unblock the system
-Aim is not symptom relief but unblocking growth process
Complexes
-They self organize
-Ideas, attitudes which accumulate around a core of emotion
- Autonomous (like a personality) eg. may feel inferior to someone
Ego (complex)
-What we think of as ourselves
-Primarily in consciousness
-Can be (but not necessarily) identified with out persona
Persona
Social role
Personal unconscious
Where aversive memories are repressed
Collective unconscious
What we share with other humans
Where archetypes exist
Archetypes
Inherited ways of framing
Involve framing that has been evolutionarily adaptive (like basic emotions)
self
Potential for unity
Involved in the process of development
The psyche consists of
PESSA
Persona and ego (conscious)
Shadow (personal unconscious)
Self (collective unconscious)
Archetypes (related to collective unconscious)
A combination of spirit, soul and idea
Psychopathology Jung
Every symptom is a failed attempt at a cure
Stages of treatment
CEEI
-Confession
Needs to involve emotion
Relationship is important- letting down defenses
- Elucidation
Coming to understand the power of non-ego parts of the psyche
Analyze trasnference
-Education
New possibilities emerge
Changing behaviour for ego needs (eg. integration into the group)
-Individuation/ Transformation
Differentiation/Analysis via Transference, Dreams, Active imagination
Realize that complexes are part of us (not projection)
Synthesis ‘into’ the self- New gestalt that can be used for assimilation into life
Kinds of thinking
Directed thinking: Logical, language-based, reality-oriented, culturally newer
Fantasy/ mythic thinking: Image-based, subjective oriented, culturally older
Occurs in pre-moderns, children and dreams
Dream analysis steps
- Making associations: Finding associations that spring out of our unconscious in response to the dream images. Every dream is made up of a series of images. Our work begins with discovering the meanings those images have
- Connecting the dream to inner dynamics: We look for and find the parts of our inner selves that the dream images represent. We find the dynamics at work inside us that are symbolized by the dream situation
- Interpreting: Put together info from first two steps and arrive at a view of the dreams meaning when taken as a whole
- Making the dream concrete: Learn to do rituals that will make the dream more conscious, imprint its meaning more clearly on our minds, and give it the concreteness of immediate physical experience
Active imagination
Type of accommodation
Like dream interpretation but while your awake
IDE
Invite the unconscious
Dialogue and experience
Ethical responsibility
Goals of Jung’s analytical psychotherapy
RSI
Reintegration
Self-knowledge
Individuation
- With a heartfelt awareness of the human condition, individual responsibility and a connection to the transcendent
Psychic reality
The sum of conscious and unconscious in processes
Jung’s Personal unconscious
-Similar to but more extensive than Freud’s description
-Contains material unacceptable to ones ego and superego and therefore repressed
-Material unimportant to the psyche, temporarily or permanently dropped from the collective unconscious
Collective unconscious
