Carl Jung - Lecture notes 3 PDF

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The chapter is about Jung's theory and how it correlates to personality. ...

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Non-conventional theorist Joined the Vienna circle (Freudian circle) o Meet weekly to share ideas and theories. o Freud saw him as the new generation. Traveled to the U.S with Freud o Clarke University in New Hampshire o Falling out on journey about sexual theory (sexual energy)  Jung was kicked out of the circle. Traveled all across the world. Influenced his theory. Holism in his theory along with religion and cultures/ Goal to make the unconscious, conscious. o Bottom pit of cravings and threatening memories and fear. o Unconscious and sexual energy (Freuds goals, not Jung). Really discovered practiced religion across the world. Jung’s quote of Learning psychology o Learn next to nothing from experimental psychology. o Advise to abandon exact science. o Focus on human and feelings, actions, cultures. Hermetics (Jung’s Theory) o Subjective o Non-conventional o Non-linear time o Formal/final causation o Dialectical logic o Rationalism

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Ying Yang Balance between light and dark. Dialectical logic – meaning different alternatives/operationalization o Meanings are bipolar o Issues arise when demonstrative thinking begins. o Jesus Christ o When we are one-sided, we move into unconscious.  Causes illnesses.

Personal Conscious  Ego o Overt personality o Subjective awareness o How we think about ourselves. Repressed Unconscious  Shadow (ID) o Once conscious contents which have been forgotten or repressed. Embrace the shadow

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Collective Conscious  Mask o Social role, how we act in situations. o Identities we assume because of socially prescribed roles. o Is taught social roles. Unconscious  Archetype (important with theory) o Storehouse of ancestral experiences back to the dawn of time of humankind and is common to all humans. o Universal o Born and developed at birth.

Personal – do things for oneself, behavior. Collective – behave for the sake of others. ID can work in communion in conscious. o How we find true self. Social (cognitive) dissonance is repressed.

Archetype (preexistent)  Forms are innate and present psychic predispositions (rationalism) that leads to respond to world in certain ways.  Shadow (main archetype)  Personifying o Female and male are us o Born bi-sexual o Anima – representation of women o Animus – representation of man  Transforming o “The squaring of the circle, which forms the basic pattern of our dreams and fantasies, but it is distinguish y the fact that it is one of the most important for them from the functional point of view, archetype of wholeness” – Jung  Fundamental emotions o Universal  Love o Universal  Death o Skull o Universal

Jung has lucid dreams or “vision” that he would record  Dreamed of blood-filled rivers and internal winter (during World War I)  Archetypes telling him something  1913-1928: painful exploration of himself. Synchronicity (non-scientific & non-conventional)  Archetype that may manifest itself one’s experience and of the same time in an external event.  “Way of aligning person’s thoughts with action.”  Formal causal  Not causally related (things tied together)  Meaningful co-incident o Example: when someone says something as the same time.  Thinking about someone so you both end up calling each othr at the same time.  Right time, right place, right people. Attitudes  A readiness of the psyche to act or react in a certain way (habitual or situational way). o General attitudes  A conversion of personality types video o Introversion: Jung was first to create this type of attitude. o Extraversion: how we behave in a situation. o When we get our attitude profile, Jung says to not follow it. Rational way of thinking, we can go both ways.  General attitudes o Feelings o Intuition o Thinking o Senescing o We have access to rational reality. How a personal becomes ill  Complex: mental contents in the psyche that sticks together and take up space in the personal unconscious (shadow). o Final causal because of the combination of feelings and attitudes.  Balance needs to be in harmony. If not, stuff is pushed down to the shadow. Dialectical: for every complex, there is a counter complex....