ATS2400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Carl Jung, Individuation

• School: Monash University
• Department: General Education Studies
• Course: ATS2400
• Professor: Zachary Russell

Document Summary

The conscious: that psychic material which is accessible to us. The face we show to the world. The personal unconscious contains: repressed painful memories, unimportant information, the shadow (often projected, anima & animus, complexes. The persona : derived from latin word mask", the different social masks worn in different situations/groups, form of protection. The anima/animus: anima = feminine, animus = male, the opposite gender qualities and attributes of the psyche, represents true self", combination = syzygy. The shadow: the dark side of the psyche, consists of repressed memories, ideas, emotions, weaknesses, desires, instincts, represents wildness, chaos and the unknown. The self: uni cation of the conscious and unconscious, individuation and the self-actualisation, contains all aspects of an individual. Collective unconscious: a store of knowledge and experience possessed by all humans, quite a contentious concept then and now, thinks of it as your psychological heritage, comparable to your genetic heritage, the home of the archetypes.