PSYC 356 Study Guide - Final Guide: Analytical Psychology, Collective Unconscious, Clairvoyance
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Chapter 4
Jung: Analytical Psychology
1. Describe how Jung's experiences with women may have influenced
his concept of personality.
(p. 103) Jung saw his mother as having two separate dispositions.
On one hand, she was realistic, practical, and warmhearted, but on
the other, she was unstable, mystical, clairvoyant, archaic and
ruthless. An emotional and sensitive child, Jung identified more with
his second side of his mother, which he called her No.2 or night
personality. At age 3, Jung was separated from his mother, who had
to be hospitalized for several months, and this separation deeply
troubled him. For a long time after, he felt distrust whenever the
word "love" was mentioned. years later he still associated "woman"
with unrealistic ability, whereas the word "father" meant reliable-
but powerless.
He was married and also had a mistress. They each were in touch
with his two different personalities.
2. Discuss the importance of Jung's encounter with his anima.
Jung beleived that the anima originated from early men's experiences with
women-mothers, sisters, lovers- that combined to form a generalized picture of
women. Anima represents femininity.
3 Name and discuss the Jungian levels of the psyche.
Jung based his personality theory on the assumptions that the mind, or
psyche, has both a conscious and an unconscious level. He asserted that the
most important portion of the unconscious springs not from personal
experiences of the individual but form the distant past of human existence, a
concept jung called the collective unconscious.
Conscious: conscious images are those that are sensed by the ego. Jung saw
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the ego as the center of conscious, but not the core of personality. Ego is not
the whole personality, but must me completed by the more comprehensive
self, the center of personality that is largely unconscious. Conscious plays a
relatively minor role in analytical psychology, and an overemphasis on
expanding one's conscious psyche can lead to psychological imbalance.
Healthy individuals are in contact with their conscious world, but they also
allow themselves to experience their unconscious self and this to achieve
individuation.
(pgs. 108-110)
4. Discuss pro or con the possible existence of a collective unconscious.
One advantage to the possible existence of a collective unconscious is the
explanation of those beliefs and thoughts that otherwise might not have an
explanation, namely religious and cultural beliefs, a concept that Jung says we
were born with.
5. List and describe eight major archetypes.
Several archetypes acquire their own personality, and Jung identified these
by name.
One is the persona—the side of our personality that we show to others.
Another is the shadow—the dark side of personality. In order for people to
reach full psychological maturity, they must first realize or accept their
shadow.
A second hurdle in achieving maturity is for men to accept their anima—their
feminine side—and for women to embrace their animu—their masculine
side.
Other archetypes include the great mother (the archetype of nourishment
and destruction); the wise old man (the archetype of wisdom and meaning);
and the hero, (the image we have of a conqueror who vanquishes evil but
who has a single fatal flaw).
The most comprehensive archetype is the self; that is, the image we have of
fulfillment, completion, or perfection.
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Document Summary
Jung: analytical psychology: describe how jung"s experiences with women may have influenced his concept of personality. (p. 103) jung saw his mother as having two separate dispositions. On one hand, she was realistic, practical, and warmhearted, but on the other, she was unstable, mystical, clairvoyant, archaic and ruthless. An emotional and sensitive child, jung identified more with his second side of his mother, which he called her no. 2 or night personality. At age 3, jung was separated from his mother, who had to be hospitalized for several months, and this separation deeply troubled him. For a long time after, he felt distrust whenever the word love was mentioned. years later he still associated woman with unrealistic ability, whereas the word father meant reliable- but powerless. He was married and also had a mistress. They each were in touch with his two different personalities: discuss the importance of jung"s encounter with his anima.
