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Causality vs. teleology dimension 

Causality o

Present events have their origin in previous experiences,

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Adult behavior → early childhood experiences (Freud) JUNG DID NOT AGREE

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Teleology o

Present events are motivated by goals and aspirations for the future that direct a person’s destiny.

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JUNG→ human behavior is shaped by both causal and teleological forces. Must be balanced

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Progression o

Adaptation to the outside world involves the forward flow of psychic energy

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Regression o

Adaptation to the inner world relies on a backward flow of psychic energy

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Activates unconscious psyche

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Both progression and regression are essential to achieving individual growth or self-realization.

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Jung’s Psychetypes (attitudes and functions) 

Attitude → predisposition to act or react in a characteristic direction o

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Introversion

Turning inward of psychic energy with an orientation toward the subjective.

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Perceive the external world selectively o

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Extraversion

The attitude distinguished by the turning outward of psychic energy so that a person is oriented toward the objective and away from the subjective.

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More influenced by surroundings than the inner world

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Functions o

Thinking

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Logical intellectual thinking that produces a chain of ideas

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Can be both extraverted and introverted o

Feeling

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Evaluating an idea or event

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Evaluation of every conscious activity

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Most have no emotional content

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Can be both extraverted and introverted o

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Sensing

Receives physical stimuli and transmits them to perceptual consciousness

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Ex: “this surface feels smooth”

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Both extraverted and introverted. o

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Intuiting

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Perception beyond the workings of consciousness

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Ex: “ i have a feeling that this will be my lucky day”

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More creative than sensing

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Both extraverted and introverted.

What is cool about Jung 

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Holistic nature of the person o

Elements of human experience lost when reduced

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Psychological health requires balance and completeness

Respect for spirituality o

Transcendent experiences uniquely human

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Addresses universal experiences

Notion of multiple selves o

Public and private; people are more complex than they appear

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Ideal and despised

Emphasis on self-acceptance

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There is nothing truly wrong with you

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Other people’s expectations and limitations are the problem

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Neo-analysts 

Much heavier emphasis on o

Ego and ego functions

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Personal growth and development

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Striving for mastery of environment

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More optimistic than pessimistic o

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Having a sense of your place in the world/your self worth o

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Personal relationships

Interpersonal dynamics as psychodynamic force o

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Self and identity

Social/cultural context

Influence of race, gender, on people’s personality development and functioning in the world

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Freud did not acknowledge this aspect!! But neoanalysts to...