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CARL JUNG
Life Highlights
• Parents’ oddities
o Mother had two personalities
• Religious family background
o Father – sentimental idealist (church minister)
o Mother – from a family who believes in spiritualism
o Uncles who were pastors
• Medical background
o Studied medicine and in psychiatric hospitals
• Freud’s influence
o Freud didn’t share his personal life with Jung, making it hard to interpret his
dreams
o Extreme isolation after fallout with Freud (lonely time)
• Women in Jung’s Life
o Emma Jung (wife) – in tune with his number 1 (practical and realistic) personality
o Antonia (Toni) Wolff – in tune with his number 2 personality
Analytical Psychology
- rests on the assumption that occult phenomena can and do influence the lives of
everyone
• occult – supernatural or mystical beliefs, practices, or phenomena; not
acceptedby science
- Jung believed that each of us is motivated not only by repressed experiences but also
bycertain emotionally toned experiences inherited from our ancestors
• Dove into the unconscious
Psychic Energy
- The basis of Jung’s system
o Libido
▪ Diffuse and general life energy (not limited to sexual desire)
▪ Fuels personality
o Psyche
▪ Personality
, 2
Principles of Psychic Energy (inspired from physics)
1. Opposition principle
• Every concept has an opposite
• Conflict between opposing concepts is necessary to generate energy; we need it
2. Equivalence principle
• Total amount of psychic energy is fixed
• Continuing redistribution of energy within a personality
o Transfer of energy in an area of equal psychic value when energy
inanother area weakens.
3. Entropy principle
• Tendency to equalize energy within a system (equilibrium)
o Ideal and is never achieved because people are very dynamic
Levels of the Psyche
1. EGO
- One’s conscious mind
- Selects perceptions, thoughts, feelings and memories that may enter consciousness
fromthe inside, particularly
- Through the ego, we establish a sense of stability in the way we perceive ourselves (it
isour perception of ourselves)
- The ego bases its perceptions and behaviors on: attitudes and functions --> part
ofpsychological types
Psychological types – union of two basic attitudes and four functions (basis of MBTI)
Attitudes
- Predisposition to act or react in a characteristic direction:
• Extroversion
▪ Orientation toward the external world or other people
▪ Outward psychic energy
• Introversion
o Orientation toward one’s own thoughts and feelings
o Inward psychic energy
o Jung’s number 2 personality
CARL JUNG
Life Highlights
• Parents’ oddities
o Mother had two personalities
• Religious family background
o Father – sentimental idealist (church minister)
o Mother – from a family who believes in spiritualism
o Uncles who were pastors
• Medical background
o Studied medicine and in psychiatric hospitals
• Freud’s influence
o Freud didn’t share his personal life with Jung, making it hard to interpret his
dreams
o Extreme isolation after fallout with Freud (lonely time)
• Women in Jung’s Life
o Emma Jung (wife) – in tune with his number 1 (practical and realistic) personality
o Antonia (Toni) Wolff – in tune with his number 2 personality
Analytical Psychology
- rests on the assumption that occult phenomena can and do influence the lives of
everyone
• occult – supernatural or mystical beliefs, practices, or phenomena; not
acceptedby science
- Jung believed that each of us is motivated not only by repressed experiences but also
bycertain emotionally toned experiences inherited from our ancestors
• Dove into the unconscious
Psychic Energy
- The basis of Jung’s system
o Libido
▪ Diffuse and general life energy (not limited to sexual desire)
▪ Fuels personality
o Psyche
▪ Personality
, 2
Principles of Psychic Energy (inspired from physics)
1. Opposition principle
• Every concept has an opposite
• Conflict between opposing concepts is necessary to generate energy; we need it
2. Equivalence principle
• Total amount of psychic energy is fixed
• Continuing redistribution of energy within a personality
o Transfer of energy in an area of equal psychic value when energy
inanother area weakens.
3. Entropy principle
• Tendency to equalize energy within a system (equilibrium)
o Ideal and is never achieved because people are very dynamic
Levels of the Psyche
1. EGO
- One’s conscious mind
- Selects perceptions, thoughts, feelings and memories that may enter consciousness
fromthe inside, particularly
- Through the ego, we establish a sense of stability in the way we perceive ourselves (it
isour perception of ourselves)
- The ego bases its perceptions and behaviors on: attitudes and functions --> part
ofpsychological types
Psychological types – union of two basic attitudes and four functions (basis of MBTI)
Attitudes
- Predisposition to act or react in a characteristic direction:
• Extroversion
▪ Orientation toward the external world or other people
▪ Outward psychic energy
• Introversion
o Orientation toward one’s own thoughts and feelings
o Inward psychic energy
o Jung’s number 2 personality
