CARL JUNG ANALYTICAL PSYCHOLOGY

What is Analytical Psychology?

This rests on the assumption that occult phenomena can and do influence the lives of everyone.

SELF-REALIZATION is the most inclusive archetype. It can only be achieved by attaining a balance
between various opposing forces of personality.

LEVELS OF THE PSYCHE

CONSCIOUS - images that are sensed by the ego.

EGO- It is the center of consciousness.

SELF- it is the center of personality that is largely unconscious.

PERSONAL UNCONSCIOUS - These are repressed, forgotten or subliminally perceived experiences of

one individual.

- Our personal unconscious is formed by our individual experiences.

COMPLEX - A complex is an emotionally toned conglomeration of associated ideas. Complexes are

largely personal, but they may also be partly derived from humanity’s collective experience.

COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS - It has roots in the ancestral past of the entire species. The contents of the
collective unconscious are the same for people in all cultures. It influences a person’s thoughts,
emotions, and actions.

ARCHETYPES - Ancient images that derived from the collective unconscious. They are similar to
complexes in that they are emotionally toned collections of associated images.

*INSTINCT- an unconscious physical impulse.

FREUD VS. JUNG’S CONCEPT

FREUD looked first to the personal unconscious and resorted to the phylogenetic endowment only
when individual explanations failed—as he sometimes did when explaining the Oedipus complex
(Freud, 1933/1964). In contrast, JUNG placed primary emphasis on the collective unconscious and used
personal experiences to round out the total personality.

PERSONA - The side of personality that people show to the world.

SHADOW- It is the archetype of darkness and repression.

SHADOW CONT’D. - Unfortunately, most of us never realize our shadow but identify only with the
bright side of our personality.

ANIMA – feminine side

ANIMUS – masculine side

GREAT MOTHER - This preexisting concept of mother is always associated with both positive and
negative feelings.
A. FERTILITY AND NOURISHMENT- capable of producing and sustaining life.

B. POWER AND DESTRUCTION- neglect her offspring.

WISE OLD MAN - It is the archetype of wisdom and meaning, symbolizes humans’ pre-existing
knowledge of the mysteries of life.

HERO - In conquering the villain, the hero symbolically overcomes the darkness of prehuman
unconsciousness.

SELF - It is the archetype of archetypes because it pulls together the other archetypes and unites them
in the process of self-realization.

MANDALA- it represents the strivings of the collective unconscious for unity, balance, and wholeness.

SELF CONT’D. - Although the self is almost never perfectly balanced, each person has in the collective
unconscious

*These opposing elements are often represented by the YANG AND YIN.

DYNAMICS OF PERSONALITY

CAUSALITY AND TELEOLOGY - Causality- present events have their origin in previous experiences.

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

Jung insisted that human behavior is shaped by causal and teleological forces and that causal
explanations must be balanced with teleological once.

B. PROGRESSION AND REGRESSION

PROGRESSION- adaptation to the outside world involves the flow of psychic energy. Inclines a person to
react consistently to a given set of environmental conditions.

REGRESSION- adaptation to the inner world relies on a backward flow of psychic energy.

Both progression and regression are essential if people are to achieve individual growth or self-
realization.

PSYCHOLOGICAL TYPES

ATTITUDES- it is the predisposition to act or react in a characteristic direction.

- Jung insisted that each person has both an introverted and an extroverted attitude, although
one may be conscious while the other is unconscious.

INTROVERSION- It is the turning inward of psychic energy with an orientation toward the subjective.

EXTRAVERSION- it is the turning outward of psychic energy so that a person is oriented toward the
objective.
2. FUNCTIONS: