CARL JUNG By Luke Robbie Scott and Erik

CARL JUNG By Luke, Robbie, Scott, and Erik

THE THEORY OF ARCHETYPES • An Archetype is an innate tendency which molds and transform the individual conscience. • Jung talks about the archetype as of biologists' patterns of behavior. In short, archetypes are inborn tendencies which shape the human behavior • “The archetype concept derives from the often repeated observation that myths and universal literature stories contain well defined themes which appear every time and everywhere. We often meet these themes in the fantasies, dreams, delirious ideas and illusions of persons living nowadays". – Carl Jung • These themes impress, influence and fascinate us and our ego. This is why we call their tremendous effect numinous - that is, able to arise deep and intense emotions. • The archetype psychic-like as it shares both psychic and material aspects and acts as well on a psychic and/or material plane

THE DIVIDED PSYCHE THEORY • First part ego, which is defined as the conscious part of the mind • The second is personal unconscious, which is not presently conscious but can be • The last part Collective unconscious which makes theory stand out. It is the reservoir of our experiences as a species, the knowledge you are born with but can’t ever be directly conscious of it. It influences all of our behaviors and experiences but especially the emotional ones. We only know about it indirectly.

DREAM INTERPRETATION • Includes a few basic elements, Subject level, prospective aspect, compensation, amplification method. • Subject level: Dream reveals, symbolically, some features of individual psychological life or of his internal psychological transformations. This way the dream becomes an indicator of those changes that sometimes point to the development of the individuation process. • Anima: Emotional, feminine side of the psyche • Prospective: It treats dreams like a map of dreamer’s future psychological evolution towards a more balanced relationship between his ego and the self. • Compensation: Includes another powerful idea, the dream is an attempt to a counterbalance a hypertrophied conscious psychological tendency.

DREAM INTERPRETATION CONT. • This way the dream becomes a message of the unconscious that indicates several neurotic deficiencies in the individual life orientation. • Jung adds to the free association method, developed by Freud, the method of amplification. He states that there are elements of the dream to which the dreamer cannot provide personal associations. These elements are symbols. * In this case, the analyst should intervene with his knowledge and complete the dreamer's gaps related to them. The associative material comes from various cultural areas: mythology, religion, alchemy, folklore, and so forth • Jung warns us repeatedly that dreams ought to be interpreted at first by Freud's method. Only exceptional cases demand the use of his own method.

FOUR FUNCTIONS OF PERSONALITY • Feeling -- method in which a person understands the value of conscious activity • Thinking – Allows a person to understand the meanings of things, relies on logic • Sensation – Refers to the means by which a person knows something exists • Intuition – knowing about something without conscious understanding of where it comes from

INTROVERSION AND EXTROVERSION • Introverts are people who prefer internal world of thought, feelings, dreams, and fantasies • Extroverts prefer the external world of things, activities, and people. • Introvert is more mature than the extrovert for the most part • Jung said we value our own type most

SOURCES • http: //carl-jung. net • http: //Webspace. ship. edu/cgboer/jung. html