Jung Paper Final - notes

I think I will structure this papaer differently than the first ---  this one will have subtitles. 

• Jung
• With Freud
• Separated from Freud 
•  3 tears of the mind - Psyche
•  Ego/Conscious
•   Unconscious 
• personal Unconscious
• collective Unconscious 
• Archetypes

Carl Jung was an early supporter of Freud because of their shared interest in the unconscious. He was an active member of the the Vienna Psychoanalytic Society (formerly known as the Wednesday Psychological Society).When the International Psychoanalytical Association formed in 1910 Jung became president at the request of Freud.However in 1912 while on a lecture tour of America Jung publicly criticized Freud’s theory of the Oedipus complex and his emphasis on infantile sexuality. The following year this led to an irrevocable split between them and Jung went on to develop his own version of psychoanalytic theory. 

(McLeod, 2014)

Jung decided to study medicine, but also developed an interest in spiritual phenomena while in school. It was this fascination with medicine and spirituality that led him into the field of psychiatry, which he viewed as a combination of his two interests.In 1902, he completed his doctoral dissertation, titled "On the Psychology and Pathology of So-Called Occult Phenomena" and graduated from University of Basel with a medical degree.Early in his career, Jung worked with psychiatric patients at the University of Zürich asylum. In 1906, he wrote Studies in Word Association and sent a copy to Sigmund Freud. The event served as the beginning of a friendship between the two men. When the two finally met in person in 1907, they reportedly spent more than 12 hours talking non-stop.

His time spent working with Sigmund Freud had a major impact on Jung’s later theories and helped him develop a fascination for the unconscious mind. Jung wanted to further understanding of the human mind through dreams, myth, art and philosophy. Initially, Freud viewed Jung as his protégé, but the friendship began to dissolve as Jung started to develop his own ideas that diverged from Freud's views.Eventually, Jung began to separate from Freudian theory, rejecting Freud's emphasis on sex as the sole source of behavior motivation. It was during this period of intense self-analysis that Jung became increasingly interested in dreams and symbols, later using what he learned during this time as the basis for his theories of psychology.

(Cherry,2016)

Conscious --> Just use notes from class

Personal unconscious

The first layer called the personal unconscious is essentially the same as Freud’s version of the unconscious. The personal unconscious contains temporality forgotten information and well as repressed memories. Jung (1933) outlined an important feature of the personal unconscious called complexes. A complex is a collection of thoughts, feelings, attitudes and memories that focus on a single concept.The more elements attached to the complex, the greater its influence on the individual. Jung also believed that the personal unconscious was much nearer the surface than Freud suggested and Jungian therapy is less concerned with repressed childhood experiences. It is the present and the future, which in his view was the key to both the analysis of neurosis and its treatment.

(McLeod, 2014)

Jung and Evil

When it [shadow] appears as an archetype…it is quite within the possibility for a man to recognize the relative evil of his nature, but it is a rare and shattering experience for him to gaze into the face of absolute evil.¹

(Earthpages,2011)

-  It is better to face one's shadow and bring it from the unconcious to the concious so that it can be controlled, rather than it be in control. 

Jung believed that Archetypes showed up in the collective unconcious. 

Collective unconscious

Jung believed the collective unconscious was a reservoir of all the experience and knowledge of the human species (Cherry,2016)

However by far the most important difference between Jung and Freud is Jung’s notion of the collective (or transpersonal) unconscious. This is his most original and controversial contribution to personality theory. This is a level of unconscious shared with other members of the human species comprising latent memories from our ancestral and evolutionary past. ‘The form of the world into which [a person] is born is already inborn in him, as a virtual image’ (Jung, 1953, p. 188).According to Jung the human mind has innate characteristics “imprinted” on it as a result of evolution. These universal predispositions stem from our ancestral past.  

(McLeod, 2014)

Jung and religion ---> just use notes from class. 

CITATION

Cherry, Kendra. "A Profile of Psychologist Carl Jung." Verywell. About.com, 2016. Web. Nov. 2016.

Earthpages.org. "Throwing Light on the Shadow: Carl Jung’s Answer to Evil." Earthpages.org. Wordpress, 01 Mar. 2011. Web. Nov. 2016.

McLeod, Saul. "Saul McLeod." Simply Psychology. Creative Commons, 01 Jan. 2014. Web. Nov. 2016.