PSY 216 Chapter Notes - Chapter 4: Personal Unconscious, Collective Unconscious, Analytical Psychology
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A theory of personality which rests on the assumption that occult phenomena can and do influence the lives of everyone. Jung believes that each of us is motivated not only by repressed experiences but also by certain emotionally toned experiences inherited from our ancestors. These inherited images make up the collective unconscious which includes those elements that we have never experienced individually but which have come down to us from our ancestors. Religion and medicine were prevalent in his family. Mother had 2 sides to her warmhearted and realistic and unstable and ruthless. Believed women to be unreliable and fathers were reliable but powerless. Also believed he had to personalities (personality 1 extraverted/objective personality. Very close with freud until they started interpreting each other"s dreams. When they broke, he self analyzed and was lonely, he took a trip through the underground of his own unconscious psyche. Saw the ego as the center of consciousness.
