ANALYTIC THEORY CARL JUNG

BIOGRAPHY

• Born on June 1875 in Kesswil, Switzerland

• He’s close to his father

• He’s mother was a more powerful parent

• He grew up with 10 pastors.

• In 1900 he became interest in etiology of schizophrenia.

• In 1906 published the book The Psychology of Dementia

Praecox a psychoanalytic treatment of schizophrenia.

• After a year collaborated with Freud in Vienna until 1913 The final split, catalogue in Jung’s Psychology of the Unconscious, include his basic disagreement with Freud over the importance of sex instincts

• Between 1913 and 1917 he went into a mental crisis in his own life that was precipitated by the break with Freud• He could no longer rely on Freud’s approach to therapy

and that he needed to develop a new attitude or orientation toward treatment

• Jung began an attempt to probe secrets of his unconscious and to unlock the mystery of his own personality

• He eventually adopted a religious attitude toward life, in the sense that he had a greater appreciation of life and its mysteries.

• Individuation or self-realization process

• He died on June 6 1961, at the age of 85

Components of Psyche

selfpersonal

ego

shadow

Structure of Personality

Personal Unconscious Collective Unconscious Perceptions,

thoughts, feelings that are easily retrieved

Universal thought forms or predispositions to respond

Repressed or forgotten individual experiences

Expressed as archetypes

Organized into complexes

Dynamics

Progression inclines a person to react consistently to a given set of environmental conditions

Regression is a necessary backward step in the successful attainment of a goal.

Principle of Equivalence states that energy is expended in bringing about a certain condition. The energy expended will appear elsewhere in the system.

Principle of Entropy states that distribution of energy in the psyche seeks an equilibrium or balance. •  

• INDIVIDUATION

• SELF REALIZATION

ATTITUDES

• Extraversion – an attitude of the psyche characterized by an orientation toward the external world and toward other people• Introversion – an attitude of the psyche

characterized by an orientation toward an individual’s own thoughts and feelings.

FUNCTIONS

• Sensing tells people that something exists• Thinking enables them to recognize its meaning• Feeling tells them its value or worth• Intuiting allow them to know about it without

knowing how they know

STAGES OF DEVELOPMENT

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 during adolescence.

YOUNG ADULTHOOD (ADOLESCENCE TO 40) – libidinal energy is directed towards learning a vocation, getting married, raising children, and activities relating to community life. The individual is outgoing, energetic, impulsive and passionate.

MIDDLE AGE (FROM 40 TO LATER YEARS) - it is the most important stage because the person is transformed from an energetic, extroverted and biologically oriented individual to one with a more sophisticated cultural, philosophical, and spiritual sense of value.

STRENGTHS

• Jung’s theory was the first to discuss the process of

Self – Actualization.

• He was also the first emphasize the importance of the

future in determining human behavior.

• He stressed the importance of purpose and meaning in life.

• He stressed the attainment of selfhood as a master motive in human behavior.

• Has a clear biological orientation

• Emphasizes highly the similarities among people

• Generated a moderate amount of research

WEAKNESS

• Jung’s method was not systematic and put too much emphasis on occultism, spiritualism, mysticism, and religion (areas commonly regarded as irrational)

• His theory has been attacked for being unscientific incomprehensible, unclear, inconsistent, and contradictory.

• His concept of self – actualization was labeled as elitist, i.e., applicable only to highly intelligent, well – educated persons with plenty of leisure time to reach a degree of individualism necessary for self – actualization.

• Nearly impossible to verify or falsify

• Difficult to test empirically

• Low rating on practicality

• Low rating on parsimony

• Neither optimistic or pessimistic

PSYCHOLOGICAL FIELDS

• Psychotheraphy – Four basic approaches

First, confession of a pathogenic agent

Second, interpretation, explanation, and elucidation (insight, too)

Third, education of the patient as social beings

Fourth, transformation of the patient into a healthy human

•Dream Analysis (reflect variety of complexes and concepts)

- Proof of the collective unconscious

• Active Imagination (requires the person to begin with an impression like a dream, image, vision, picture, fantasy, and concentrate on it until the impression begins to move). Follow the image and try to communicate with it no matter

• 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 patient responds with the first word that comes to his or her mind. (Responses’ to reveal complex)

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