CARL JUNG

THE PERSONAL AND THE COLLECTIVE

Jung & Mandala

Mandala

A sanskrit word meaning circle

It is of Hindu origin but found in buddhism as well

Jung believed the mandala was a representation of the unconscious self and through his paintings his was able to identify and work towards a better understanding of his personality.

Early Years

Carl Gustav Jung was born July 26, 1875, in the small Swiss village of Kessewil. His father was Paul Jung, a country parson, and his mother was Emilie Preiswerk Jung. He was surrounded by a fairly well educated extended family.

Childhood

His father started Carl on Latin when he was six years old, and this immediately brought on a long interest in language and literature -- especially ancient literature. Besides most modern western European languages, Jung could read several ancient ones.

Carl was a rather solitary adolescent, who didn't care much for school, and especially couldn't take competition. He went to boarding school in Basel, Switzerland, where he found himself the object of a lot of jealous harassment. He began to use sickness as an excuse, developing an embarrassing tendency to faint under pressure.

Career and Marriage

Although his first career choice was archeology, he went on to study medicine at the University of Basel. While working under the famous neurologist KrafftEbing, he settled on psychiatry as his career. After graduating, he took a position at the Burghoeltzli Mental Hospital in Zurich under Eugene Bleuler, an expert on schizophrenia. In 1903, he married Emma Rauschenbach.

Carl and Freud

Carl and Freud http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UlgDvbBhHd0

Long an admirer of Freud, he met him in Vienna in 1907. Freud eventually came to see Jung as the crown prince of psychoanalysis and his heir apparent. But Jung had never been entirely sold on Freud's theory. They were entertaining themselves by analyzing each others' dreams (more fun, apparently, than shuffleboard), when Freud seemed to show an excess of resistance to Jung's efforts at analysis. Freud finally said that they'd have to stop because he was afraid he would lose his authority. Thus, Jung felt rather insulted.

Later Years

World War I was a painful period of self-examination for Jung. However, in this time, he brought about the most interesting personality theories that no one had ever seen or thought of before. After the war, Jung traveled widely, visiting tribal people in Africa, America, and India.

He retired in 1946, and began to retreat from public attention after his wife died in 1955. He died on June 6, 1961, in Zurich.

Jung & Man's Existence

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jZMrqtqJVQ8

The Myers Briggs Test

Carl Jung is famous for building the psychological theories that built the MyersBriggs Type Indicator psychometric assessment

designed to measure psychological preferences and how people make decisions and perceive the world

Jung proposed that there was two dichotomous pairs of cognitive functions

rational judging functions: thinking and feeling

irrational perceiving functions: sensing and intuition

Jung & Personalities

Jung believed there to be 16 different types of people in the world, combinations from the following four categories:

Extravert or Introvert
Sensing or Intuition Thinking or Feeling Judgment or Perception You can take the test online at similarminds.com/jung

Its the worlds most widely used internet assessment test

Jung vs Freud Rhetoric

Both Sigmund Freud and Carl Jung were influential characters and are very similar in their views

Freud was the first to push the idea of the unconsciousness and favored the idea of the super ego, ego and id.

Carl Jung was slightly more contemporary to Freud and fathered the creation of analytical psychology

He based this on the idea that the conscious and unconscious minds must be in harmony with each other

Carl Jung also created some of his own words and coined the terms introvert and extrovert

Freud and Jung were good friends, but Jung moved away from Freuds theories and focused more on the role of art, religion and myth and their effects on informing the unconscious

Carl Jung's Rhetoric:

the contents of he unconscious are passed through by the conscious mind, in that they were once part of the conscious mind of the individual

Two questions arise from this: What is that content and where did it come from?

Jung provides an example of a woman whose therapy he was giving, where he analyzes her dreams at the end of his treatment and finds a superhuman father figure in a field swaying with the wind. He concludes that the superhuman figure is not what is obvious ( a father figure ) but of something entirely different, but rather it is an archetype of God

He states that the collective unconsciousness is a shared by groups of people that just the individual alone, meaning that we are very influential

Freud's View of Unconscious

Unconscious contents are repressed infantile tendencies because of incompatible character

Analysis of repressions ->wishes granted

Jung believed it contained all psyhic material that lies beyond the level of consciousness

Impossible to explain by simply removing repression-lead to super human memory

Jung's View of Unconscious

Unconscious contains repressed material and psychic material (fallen below conscious) (subliminal perceptions

Also contains components that have not reached consciousness yet

Unconscious never inactive always working with conscious

Jung's View on Repressions

All contents of personality acquired through lifetime-limited Could inventory/regulate unconscious based on what is known in the conscious.

Transfer to unconscious would terminate (removal of repressions) unconscious frozen

Therefore dreams should be stopped (but this is incorrect)

Unconscious goes beyond personal thoughts but are similar to the original repressed idea

Jung's View on Repressions

All contents of personality acquired through lifetime-limited Could inventory/regulate unconscious based on what is known in the conscious.

Transfer to unconscious would terminate (removal of repressions) unconscious frozen

Therefore dreams should be stopped (but this is incorrect)

Unconscious goes beyond personal thoughts but are similar to the original repressed idea

Jung's Patient

Women with father complex issue

Her father passed away, sought a philosophical education(intellectual outlet), loss of father could have a successful transition if male tie/relationship formed

Normal person would break bond but typically any weakness of instinct causes trouble to a smooth unconscious transition.

New motive: to end suspension between relationships

Through treatment the Dr. becomes the substitute between father/male figure (father/ sort of lover)-becomes the object of conflict

Through him the opposites are united and to the patient the Dr. seems like a savior or god
Transfer may seem ideal but not the solution simply a healing factor

What Next?

Patient usually disagrees to removing Dr. Sometimes the positive enthusiasm to transferring causes the patient to be overjoyed more so then the pain the sacrifice would require An involuntary strain may cause interference or demands of life hinder patient from holding on to transfer

If Unsuccessful Leap?

ex. monetary issues Could result in relapse

Jung's Patient

The patient almost forced out involuntarily but worked together to work on psychic uncontaminated by Jung's ideas-Dreams! Dreams are a product of the psyche and not created by the conscious so Jung believed it may bring some light on the psyche process (dreams= portrait of psyche)

Patients Dream: often with patient and Dr.(appearance distortedsupernatural size, aged, resembling father)

ex. patient in wheat field, tiny in comparison to father, in fathers arms swaying in the wind

Learned that bond Jung was trying to remove was strengthened

Jung's Patient

Jung knows the patient can distinguish the Dr. from semi-divine in reality with the dreams repeating the conscious stand point w/o the criticism or idea the Dr. isn't divine. Unconscious reaches out and thinks of Dr. in God like proportions as a trick to view the Dr. in a passionate/highly loving way because of transference lost to consciousness (patient doesn't know this) Unconscious works beyond the idea of the human person Patient finds a male figure/friend and removes herself from the Dr. w/o consciously knowing- unconscious develops to let the psyche out of the pointless trick

Jung believes God view developed from infantile views (agnostic now)

Personal Unconscious

Derived from patients life and psychological factors

Some psyche incompatible and are repressed (can discover from effects in the past)
Because lost from consciousness a sense of inferiority develops from loss of integral components

Moral resentment from deficiency causes a demand for the deficiencies to be readdressed
Either indirect/direct causes unconscious to assimilate unconscious to a fully conscious self

Usually results in widening of personality that maybe painful because of reviewing difficult memories
Dreams deepen scope of self-knowledge (humanize man)

Jung's Patient