PSYC1001 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Analytical Psychology, Comparative Religion, Personal Unconscious
19 May 2018
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Jung’s analytical psychology
Word association tasks
• Responses differed depending on neutral/environmental stimuli
• Interpreted differently between individuals
• Found 11 unique patterns of response interpreted as diagnostic signs of unconscious
complexes
• Non-clinical experimental evidence
The personal unconscious
• Repressed ideas
• Memories
• Impulses
The collective unconscious
• Psychic system - most powerful, influential system of the psyche
• Non-individual, non-empirical, in all humans
• Supra-personal (beyond the individual)
• Archaic, promordial images - archetypes
• Patterns of instinctual behaviour
• Drew on diverse sources, anthropological research, comparative religion, own visions and
dreams and those of his psychotic patients
• 7 archetypes
o Child-god
o Mother
o Trickster/magician
o Hero
o Shadow
o Animus/anima
o Persona archetype
• Archetypes considered unconscious images of the instincts themselves, patterns of instinctual
behaviour
• Determine behaviour and explain synchronicity phenomenon
• Synchronicity - 2 events related through meaning rather than actual cause and effect
o 2 events may occur simultaneously without one causing the other, although appears to
individual as if there is connection between the 2
o Archetype influences determining of connection between two events
o Imposes meaning on reality
• Jung - believed everything connected in real beyond space, time and mystical reality
o Application of Freud - believed trying to free ourselves from earth, spiritual realm was
psychological construction, imagination
Jung's anticipation of later approaches to personality
• Dispositional/trait
o Classify people according to general typology e.g. extra/intraversion
• Humanistic/existential
o Individual's life purpose, life shaped by future goals, full selfhood
Testing/evaluating Jung's theory
• Doesn't pass any conceptual tests
• Empirical
o Little clarity, vague, obscure
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