Chapter 7 Carl Jung: First to Digress from Freud

1. Personality Psychology Chapter 7 Carl Jung: First to Digress from Freud

2. Carl Jung: Bridge between Psychoanalytic and Neoanalytic Jung’s relationship to Freud Contacted Freud in 1907 after reading Interpretation of Dreams Freud selected Jung to be his protégé to carry on psychoanalytic tradition

3. Jung, continued • Jung drifted from Freud • Motivations and goals of individuals are more important than sexual urges • Existence in universal archetypes • Personality is goal- and future-oriented as opposed to being fixed by childhood • Freud was threatened by Jung’s ideas • Parted ways by 1913 Jung termed his own psychology “Analytic Psychology”

4. Jung’s Basic Assumptions • Less focus on sexuality, more on human history and the supernatural • Duality (Dual nature to personality) • All people have essentially “two” personalities on a variety of variables (Introversion and Extraversion) • Collective Unconscious (Collective nature to the unconscious) • All people understand truths that are passed down from generation to generation through an unconscious channel

5. Jung’s Topographical Model • Conscious Ego • Freud’s “Conscious” • Sense of self • Thinking, feeling, perceiving • Personal Unconscious • Freud’s Preconscious and Unconscious • Memories, repressed material, and a sense of future events • Where “Complexes” are • Collective Unconscious • Unique to Jung • Deeper level of the unconscious • Made up of emotional symbols, “Archetypes”

6. Jung’s Archetypes • Aspects • Common to all people • Emotional patterns that have been formed over time as reoccurring reactions to events • Predispose us to react in predictable ways to certain stimuli • Best-known archetypes • Persona/Shadow, Animus/Anima, Magician, Child-god, Mother, Hero/Demon

7. Archetypes, cont. • Persona and Shadow (The battle within) • Two opposing archetypes • Idealized outward appearance (Persona) versus dark, unacceptable motives and desires (Shadow) • Results in socially unacceptable thoughts and actions, similar to Id vs. Superego battles • Hero and Demon (the outside battle) • Hero is strong, good force that battles the enemy • Demon represents cruelty and evil

8. Archetypes, cont. • Animus/ Anima • Male element of a woman (animus) and female element of a man (anima) • A female has innate knowledge of what it means to be a male, and a male has innate knowledge of what it means to be a female • Good and evil mother • Sense of generativity and fertility versus sterility • Can either be real mother, or figurative mother (something that teaches or nurtures)

9. Jung’s Complexes • Struggle between opposing archetypes produces COMPLEXES • Group of emotionally-charged feelings, thoughts, and ideas that are all related to a particular theme. • Opposing forces that continually pull against each other • Struggle to balance complexes, or achieve equilibrium

10. Jung’s Topographical Model • Conscious What we are currently aware of (class, Spring Break) • Unconscious  Where battles between opposing archetypes take place (memories, understanding of future, and repressed battles; struggle between Persona and Shadow for identity) • Collective Unconscious Where archetypes are (Understanding and awareness of Persona and Shadow by all human beings)

11. Development of Self for Jung (development of personality) • Process called “Individuation” • Confront negative archetypes; achieve positive archetypes • Balance complexes • Accomplish this through Dream Analysis and Imagination •  Leads to SELF: Psychological Order and Totality of Personality