Jung Chapter 3

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2. Biographical • 1875-1961 • Lonely, fantasy-filled childhood A. Stone – perspective of stone B. Manikin – “secret friend” C. Phallus Dream – Lord Jesus D. Throne Vision – terrible thought • Lifelong interest in the Occult

3. Biographical • Adulthood • Married 1903 • Freud’s successor • “creative illness” • love triangle

4. Libido • Creative, biological life force (energy) for personal growth • As biological needs become easier to satisfy, energy is used for more spiritual problems • How much energy we devote to a problem determines its value to us

5. Principles • Principle of Equivalence(1st law of thermodynamics) • Total amount of psychic energy is fixed • Principle of Opposites • Every concept has a polar opposite • Principle of Entropy • Tendency to equalize energy within a system

6. Components of the Personality 1. Ego (conscious) • Responsible for • sense of identity • thinking, feeling, remembering – conscious awareness • functions of daily living

7. Components of the Personality 2. Personal Unconscious • Material that was once conscious but • was repressed or forgotten • or not vivid enough to make an impression • Complex • Personally disturbing, interrelated feelings, memories, and impulses that are usually repressed, which would inhibit person growth; i.e., mother complex • Development of the word-associationtest

8. Components of the Personality 3. Collective Unconscious • Most mystical, controversial concept • Collective experiences from human evolutionary past, inherited • Archetype • Inherited predisposition to respond to certain aspects of the world, formed because humans have a natural tendency to make myths

9. Archetypes • PERSONA • One’s public self (mask, social roles) • Inflation of the persona • If Persona given too much importance, stifles other components of personality

10. Archetypes • ANIMA & ANIMUS • Shows males/females how to interact with opposite gender; an “ideal” male/female • Anima: Female component of the male psyche • Animus: Masculine component of the female psyche

11. Archetypes • SHADOW • Darkest, deepest part of the psyche, animal instincts (immoral, aggressive, passionate) • Projected outward: monsters

12. Archetypes • SELF • Attempts to harmonize all the other components • Life’s primary goal

13. Therapy • Goal: to bring archetypes into consciousness and then integrate into personality; i.e., use them • Self-realization: harmonize components in psyche

14. Stages of Development • Stages defined by where the focus of libidinal energy was • Childhood (from birth to adolescence) • Early: Energy directed toward survival skills; eating, walking • After age 5, more energy devoted to sexuality

15. Stages of Development • YoungAdulthood (from adolescence to about age 40) • Energy directed toward work, marriage, children, community • MiddleAge (from about age 40 to the later years of life) • Most important phase • Energy directed toward finding a meaning in life • Many of his patients’ complexes from lack of religion • Ideally, focus switches from self concerns to world concerns

16. Eight Personality Types • Two general attitudes • Direction of energy flow • Extroversion: Sociable, outgoing, interested in external events • Introversion: Quiet, imaginative, more interested in ideas

17. Eight Personality Types • Four functions of thought • thinking – feeling (making judgments/decisions; rational) • Feeling: Determines an object’s worth to the individual (emotions) • Thinking: Tells what an object is (logic, reason) • sensing – intuiting (getting information; irrational) • Sensing: Detects the presence of objects (details) • Intuiting: Provides hunches when no data are available (big picture)

18. Eight Personality Types 2 attitudes (energy) 4 functions of thoughts (dealing with the world) X 8 types EF ET IF IT ES EN IS IN

19. EXTROVERTED THINKING EXTROVERTED FEELING EXTROVERTED SENSATION EXTROVERTED INTUITION INTROVERTED THINKING INTROVERTED FEELING INTROVERTED SENSATION INTROVERTED INTUITION Interested in facts about objects external to the self Logical Fixed rules Represses emotions and feelings Neglects friends and relationships The Eight Types

20. EXTROVERTED THINKING EXTROVERTED FEELING EXTROVERTED SENSATION EXTROVERTED INTUITION INTROVERTED THINKING INTROVERTED FEELING INTROVERTED SENSATION INTROVERTED INTUITION Interested in ideas and inner reality Inflexible, cold Pays little attention to other people The Eight Types

21. EXTROVERTED THINKING EXTROVERTED FEELING EXTROVERTED SENSATION EXTROVERTED INTUITION INTROVERTED THINKING INTROVERTED FEELING INTROVERTED SENSATION INTROVERTED INTUITION Responds to reality emotionally, but only as appropriate to situation Respects authority/tradition Frequent among women The Eight Types

22. EXTROVERTED THINKING EXTROVERTED FEELING EXTROVERTED SENSATION EXTROVERTED INTUITION INTROVERTED THINKING INTROVERTED FEELING INTROVERTED SENSATION INTROVERTED INTUITION Subjective truth is the only truth Follow own thoughts and feelings Few friends The Eight Types

23. EXTROVERTED THINKING EXTROVERTED FEELING EXTROVERTED SENSATION EXTROVERTED INTUITION INTROVERTED THINKING INTROVERTED FEELING INTROVERTED SENSATION INTROVERTED INTUITION Emphasizes sensory experience Concerned with facts and details, “realist” Not particularly interested in analysis of situation The Eight Types

24. EXTROVERTED THINKING EXTROVERTED FEELING EXTROVERTED SENSATION EXTROVERTED INTUITION INTROVERTED THINKING INTROVERTED FEELING INTROVERTED SENSATION INTROVERTED INTUITION Creates own meaning for sensory experiences e.g., musicians and artists The Eight Types

25. EXTROVERTED THINKING EXTROVERTED FEELING EXTROVERTED SENSATION EXTROVERTED INTUITION INTROVERTED THINKING INTROVERTED FEELING INTROVERTED SENSATION INTROVERTED INTUITION Concerned with possibilities for change in the external world, rather than with the familiar Unconcerned with logic The Eight Types

26. EXTROVERTED THINKING EXTROVERTED FEELING EXTROVERTED SENSATION EXTROVERTED INTUITION INTROVERTED THINKING INTROVERTED FEELING INTROVERTED SENSATION INTROVERTED INTUITION Explore implications of internal events Often distant Daydreamer The Eight Types

27. Myers-Briggs Type Indicator • Includes: • Extravert/Introvert scale • Thinking/Feeling scale • Intuiting/Sensing scale • Added: • Judging/Perceiving scale • organized, plans vs. improvising • 16 types

28. Jung Test Results My Personality Type Your type is: INFP • http://similarminds.com/personality_tests.html

29. Explaining human behavior • Causality • attempt to explain adult personality in terms of prior experiences (past) • Teleology • human behavior has a purpose (future) • Synchronicity • meaningful coincidence influence behavior

30. Research Techniques • Word-association test • Study of psychotic patients • Self-study of dreams and visions • Wide, cross-cultural study of symbols, rituals, etc.

31. Contributions • Optimism about human nature • Importance of future • Importance of search for meaning as a motivator • Use of multiple cultures

32. Criticisms • Nonfalsifiable • Unclear, contradictory • Emphasis of irrational and spirituality • Use of unscientific methods

33. Freud vs. Jung • Similarities • Libido • Principle of Conservation of Energy; Principle of equivalence • Ego • Unconscious • Stages of Development • Causality • Dreams • Differences • Libido • Unconscious • Stages of Development • Causality and Teleology • Pessimistic/Optimistic about human nature • Religion