PSY 181 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Psychopathology, Neurosis, Tabula Rasa

• School: University of Rochester
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSY 181
• Professor: C H R I S T O P H E R N I E M I E C

Document Summary

Jung thought people"s personalities are inherently different because people assimilate information in different ways. Attitudes are stable, individual differences with no inherent value. Some people direct libido inward (introversion) and others direct libido outward (extraversion). Introversion involves directing psychic energy to internal values. Extraversion involves directing psychic energy to external values. Everyone has a dominant function and an auxiliary function. Judging (rational) functions: thinking (analyze situations before making judgments), feeling (base their judgments on how they feel) Perceiving (irrational) functions: sensing (ascertain what"s going on in the world using their five senses, non-evaluative), intuitive (focus on world in terms of possibilities beyond the senses) Myers-briggs type indicator (mbti): based on the two attitudes and the four functions. Individuation is the process by which we develop our personality. Life begins in a state of undifferentiated wholeness and then takes the path toward balance and unity. Individuation occurs through differentiation and integration of all psychic material into a unified whole.