Carl Jung

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Carl Jung

• 1875-1961

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Summary of major life themes

• Dreams, visions, and secrets resulted in
  isolation and independence in viewpoint
• The phalus god (age 4)
• The stone (age 7)
• The mannequin (age 10)
• The throne (age 12)
• Two separate persons
• The above indicated gifts of knowledge and wisdom
  bestowed by a truthful and holy source
• Disenchantment with organized religion
• His professional relationship then break with
  Freud
• Descent into the unconscious was an attempt at
  finding truth, not a descent into psychosis

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Summary of major life themes

• Disenchantment with organized religion
• His professional relationship then break with
  Freud
• Descent into the unconscious was an attempt at
  finding truth, not a descent into psychosis

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Carl Jung

• Met Freud in Vienna in 1907
• Freud considered him to be the crown prince of
  psychoanalysis and his heir
• Mainly due to Jungs development of his word
  association test
• Split in 1913

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Jungs Word Association Test

• List of about 100 words
• Measured an individuals reaction time and
  galvanic skin response (GSR)
• Hesitation indicated symbolic connection to
  deeply personal and threatening idea or
  experiences
• Held together by common themes
• Complexes
• A personally disturbing constellation of ideas
  connected together by common feeling tone

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Jungs Word Association Test

• Indicated by
• Longer than average reaction time
• Repetition of the stimulus word
• Mishearing the stimulus word
• Expressive bodily movements such as laughing or
  twitching
• Multi word reactions
• Superficial reactions (rhyming)
• Meaningless reactions (made up words)
• Failure to respond
• Continuing to respond to a stimulus word even
  when a new word(s) had been given
• Major alteration of responses when list is
  regiven
• Slips of tongue or stammering

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Psyche

• The totality of the human personality
• Includes all conscious and unconscious activities
  of the mind (thoughts, feelings, sensations,
  attitudes, wishes, etc.
• Believed libido was a neutral, non-sexualized,
  and general life force (power) of the psych
• 3 levels
• Conscious Ego
• Personal Unconscious
• Collective Unconscious

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Psyche

• Conscious Ego
• The conscious mind
• In charge of our actions and attitudes
• Selects what may enter our consciousness
• Our conscious perception of self

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Psyche

• Personal unconscious
• Part we are unaware of
• Consists of repressed memories, thoughts, wishes,
  feelings, and perceptions that are unique to the
  individual
• Much of which was once conscious but has been
  forgotten or suppressed
• Some can be brought into consciousness, others
  are more difficult
• Prospective function helps us look into and
  prepare for the future by imagining
• Compensatory function balances thoughts,
  characteristics, etc. (principle of opposites)
  

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Psyche

• Personal unconscious
• Complexes
• A core or pattern of emotions, memories,
  perceptions, and wishes organized around a
  central theme that have meaning to us
• Result from childhood or adult experiences, or
  from connection to the collective unconscious
• The more elements connected to it the more impact
  it has on us
• May be conscious or unconscious, good or bad

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Psyche

• Collective Unconscious
• Part of the psyche that embodies some of the
  general wisdom that is shared by all people, has
  developed over time, that is passed onto all
  people
• Principle function is to predispose us to respond
  to certain external situations in a given manner
• Basis
• Suns phallus
• Soldiers snake dream
• Personal dreams and hallucinations

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Psyche

• Collective Unconscious
• Archetypes (Primordial Images)
• The universal and prototypical images, objects,
  and types of people or experiences that our
  ancestors have encountered through the
  generations and have gained importance due to the
  significant role they play in day to day living
• Imprinted in our psyche
• As many as there are personal experiences
• Most commonly manifest themselves in our dreams
• When attached to personal experiences can make a
  complex
• Believed these could take control of the
  personality if too prominent
• Believed groups could project the meaning of
  archetypes

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The Archetypes

• Persona
• The totality of our masks
• Influenced by
• Choice
• Society and culture
• Collective unconscious
• If overdeveloped, can result in loss of sense of
  self (inflation of the persona / ego inflation)

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The Archetypes

• Anima and Animus
• Anima
• Female aspect of collective unconscious in men
• Animus
• Male aspect of collective unconscious in women
• Lack of recognition can result in incompleteness
• If too prominent can lose masculinity or
  femininity
• Together called syzgy

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The Archetypes

• Shadow
• The dark side of our personality (opposite of
  persona)
• Contains all the uncivilized and disowned raw
  urges and desires
• Accounts for our atypical behaviors
• Effects our relationships with our own sex
• Must develop a strong persona to limit its
  urgings
• Suppression leads to a civilized life but at
  the expense of spontaneity, creativity, and
  strong emotions
• Represented by
• Demons, Devils, Dragons, Snakes, etc.

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The Archetypes

• Self
• The organizing center of ones entire
  psychological system
• The stimulus toward finding unity and balance
  (transcendence)
• Brings together all parts including our
  opposites
• Search for this is never ending
• Most important of all
• Symbolized through the mandala

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Personality

• Introverts
• Prefer their internal world of thoughts,
  feelings, fantasies, etc.
• Face toward the collective unconscious and its
  archetypes
• Extroverts
• Prefer external world of things, people, and
  activities
• Face the persona and outer world

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Personality

• Four basic ways (functions) both deal with world
• Sensation
• Thinking
• Intuiting
• Feeling

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Personality

• Sensing
• Getting info through the senses (senses something
  is there but not what it is)
• Good at looking, listening to, and getting to
  know the world
• An irrational function
• Occurs on the conscious level
• Thinking
• Evaluating info rationally and logically
  (therefore a rational function)
• Gives names to objects sensed.
• Occurs on the conscious level

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Personality

• Feeling
• Evaluating info by weighing ones overall,
  emotional response
• Judges value to an individual and whether good or
  bad
• Occurs on the unconscious level
• A rational function
• Intuiting
• Perception outside the usual conscious processes
• Provides hunches when factual info is not
  available
• Based on the complex integration of large amounts
  of information
• An irrational function
• Occurs on the unconscious level

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Personality

• We all have these functions in different measures
• Superior function our preferred and best
  developed
• Secondary function we are aware of and use to
  support the superior function
• Tertiary function slightly less developed than
  secondary function by not necessarily conscious
• Inferior function poorly developed and often
  unconscious