PSYC 370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Personal Unconscious, Analytical Psychology, Collective Unconscious

• School: Simon Fraser University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 370
• Professor: Norahope

Document Summary

Psych 370- lec 3 considered himself introverted, became an early practitioner of psychoanalysis, his marriage to emma who funded his studies might have led to less sexist approach. Breakdown from 1913-1917: focused on creative activity( however some believed that it was a psychotic episode, his red book was not published until 2009 (50 yrs after his death) Ego: conscious core of personality (unlike freud"s ego, entirely conscious everyday cognitive functions sense of identity. Personal unconscious: unique to individual ideas, feelings, wishes and experiences that were once conscious but have been denied awareness by repression or forgotten two way traffic with ego similar to freud"s preconscious. Collective unconscious: (huge departure from freud and most controversial aspect of jung"s theory) shared by all humans the accumulation of inherited experiences of humans. Archetypes: common themes of universal experiences contained in the collective unconscious this is why we often dream and fantasize about these themes e. g. shadow, hero, mother, god,