PSY 20673 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Carl Jung, Psychological Types, Collective Unconscious
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Jung: analytic psychology: overview of jung"s analytical psychology. Carl jung believed that people are extremely complex beings who possess a variety of opposing qualities, such as introversion and extraversion, masculinity and femininity, and rational and irrational drives. single fatal flaw). The most comprehensive archetype is the self; that is, the image we have of fulfillment, completion, or perfection. The ultimate in psychological maturity is self- realization, which is symbolized by the mandala, or perfect geometric figure. Carl jung was born in switzerland in 1875, the oldest by about 9 years of two surviving children. Protestant minister and his mother was a strict believer in mysticism and the occult. Jung"s early experience with parents who were quite opposite of each other probably influenced his own theory of personality, including his fanciful no. Soon after receiving his medical degree he became acquainted with.
