Carl Gustav Jung

• Was born on July 26, 1875 to a fairly educated

family. He had a weak father and a dominant
mother.
• His father taught him to be interested in
language and nature. Jung describe his mother
as an insecure woman who treated his family
inconsistenly. His parents are constatly arguing
and the separation from his mother had a
profound impact to him.
• During his high school days, he
spent much time in solitary
pursuits. The long walk to school
makes him aware of his full
existence.
• Jung is a intelligent student but
misunderstood by his peers,
classmates and teachers.
• As a result, he began to withdraw
from people and relied on his own
experiences to help people to
understand their environment.
• When he was a teenager, Jung
aspired to become an archeologist
but his family could not afford to
send him to a school with that
curriculum.
• Instead, he studied at the nearby
University of Basel and mmajored in
medicine, following his father’s
foorsteps.
• He specializes psychiatry because it
provided him to reconcile two
important opposing tendencies within
himself: an interest natural science and
preoccupation with religious and
philisophical values.
• In 1900, after obtaining a medical
degree, he worked as an assistant
in Zurich medical hospital and
became interested in the etiology
of schizophrenia.
• in 1903, he married Emma
Rauschenback and taught at the
University of Zurich.
• In 1906, he published The
Psychology of Dementia Praecox,
about the psychoanalytic
treatment of schizophrenia and
sent a copy to Freud.
• a year later he met Freud in
Vienna. That visit marked the
beggining of collaboration that
lasted in 1913.
• The split was caused by the
disagreement with Freud over the
importance of sex instinct.
• He wanted to develop a psychology
that dealth with human aspirations
and spiritual needs, arguing that
the way to self-actualization
through the rediscovery of spiritual
self.
• In 1911, he became the first
president of the International
Psychoanalytic Association.
• Between 1913 and 1917, Jung
went through a mental crisis thaat
cumlinated in his resignation at
thee University of Zurich. This
separation from Freud.
• Jung eventually adopted a religious
attitude toward life, in the sense that he
had a great appreciation of life and
mysteries.
• He spent much of his time travelling and
lecturing throughout the world. He retired
in 1946, and began to retreat from public
attention after his wife died in 1946.
• He died June 6, 1961 at the age of 86 in
Kusnachi, Lake Zurich.
Jung’s view of Human Nature
• Jung human psyche is embedded in the
past, present and future. It consist also of
contradicting behaviors like: conscious and
unconscious, rational and irrational,
spiritualistic and animalistic tendencies, etc.
• Self-actualization is achieved when such
harmony exist. But self-actualization must
be sought. It does not happen
automatically. Knowing and dealing with the
unconscious was important in reaching the
self-actualization.
• He believed that spiritual need must
ne satisfied, this usually happen in the
middle age when many components of
the psyche have been discovered.
Religion is the major vehicle in the
journey towards self-actualization.
• He also stated that, in humans. The
past pushes the person and the future
pull toward the person to his
aspirations.
 Components of the pscyhe
1. Ego
- everything of which we are conscious. It
is concerned in thinking, feeling and
perceiving.
2. Personal unconscious
- consists of materials that were once
conscious but later repressed or forgotten, or
which were not vivid enough to make a
conscious impression.
3. Collective unconscious
- the collective experiences of
humans in their revolutionary past
or the accumulation of ancestral
experiences. This is Jung’s mystical,
controversial and boldest theory.
4. Persona
- Greek word of ‘mask’ or one’s
public self. The persona archetype
develops because of one’s need to
play a role in society. This is the
part of our psyche by which are
known to other people.
5. Archetypes
- the archetype does two things.
a. it causes males to have
feminine traits
b. it provides a framework
within which males interact with
females.
anima
- the female component of the
male psyche. It results from
experiences men have had with
women throughout the ages.
animus
- the masculine component of
the female psyche.
6. Shadow
- the darkest and the deepest
part of the psyche. It is the
colletive unconscious that we
inherited in our pre-human
ancestors and contain all animal
instincts.
7. Word Association
- a test used by Jung to detect
complexes. The test is composed
of a list of words; as each word is
presented. The patients respond
with the first word that comes to
his mind.
8. The Self
- the component of the psyche that
attempts to harmonized all the
other components. It is the person’s
striving for unity, wholeness, and
integration of the total personality.
When this integration is achieved,
the individual is said tobe self-
actualized.
 Two orientations the psyche in
relating to the world.
A. Introversion
- inward, towards the subjective world of
the individual. An introvert is someone
who tends to be quiet, imaginative and
more interested in ideas than in other
people.
b. Extroversion
-outward, towards the external environment.
An extrovert tends to be sociable, outgoing,
and interested in peolple and things.
 Functions of thought
1. Sensing- detects the presence of
things; indicates that something is
there but does not indicate what
it is.
2. Thinking- tells what a thing is;
gives names to things that are
sensed.
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3. Feeling- tells whether a thing is acceptable or

unacceptable; determines what a thing is
worth to the individual.
4. Intuiting- hunches about past or future events
when factual information is available.
 Stages of development

a. Childhood (birth to adolescence)

- libidinal energy is expected in learning to walk,
talk, and other skills necessary for survival. After
the fifth year, libidinal energy is directed towards
sexual activities. Reaching its peak in adolescence.
b. Young Adult (adolescene to 40)
- libidinal energy is directed towards learning a
vocation, getting married, raising children, and
activities relating to community life.
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c. The Middle age (from 40 to the later years of

life)
- the most important stage because the
person is transformed from an energetic,
extroverted, and biologically oriented to one
with a more sophistocated cultural,
philosophical,and spiritual sense of value.
 Progression and Regression

Progression
- is a forward movement, meaning the conscious
ego is adjustingly satisfactorily to the demands
of both the external world and the unconscious.
Regression
- occurs when libidinal energy flows backward,
away from the environment and inward to the
unconscious.
 Dynamics of Personality

1. The Principle of enthrophy

- states that energy is expended in bringing
about a certain condition. The energy will
appear elsewhere in the system. The principle
states that if a particular value weakens or
disappear but will nit lost in the psyche will
reappear in a new value.
Ex. a person who loses interest in a hobby usually
find another one to take its place.
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2. The principle of entrophy

- distribution of energy in the psyche seeks
an equilibrium or balance. Thus, when two
bodies of different temperatures are placed in
contact with one another, heat will pass from
the hotter to the colder body.