Carl Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious goes to explain how certain symbols, pictures, and memories from ancestors are instilled in the people of today. Examples of the collective unconscious would be developed within the four main archetypes. These archetypes are the persona, the anima/ animus, the shadow, and the self. The persona is also called the mask. This archetype displays how the world sees a person. One can choose how they carry themselves on the outside yet think completely different on the inside. This is what will be judged by the world, is your persona or your mask. The anima/ animus is the thought that each sex has tendencies of the other. Therefore, a woman has some masculine aspects and a man has certain feminine …show more content…
Also, I just recently reached out to the athletic trainer at Florida State University, where I am hoping to attend, to see if there would be any possibility for me to observe with her as a student athletic trainer as well. Both professional athletic trainers have been impressed with my compassion and determination for this field of work at my young age and continue to help me with more opportunities to learn about this career path before I enter college. My persona has not only been effective for the opportunities I have received, but it has also brought along lifelong friends. I am always caring for my friends and their needs before my own. When I meet new people, I want them to know instantly that I care for them. Simply showing people that I care for them and being compassionate is what has given me the friends I have today. One’s persona, their act in society, is important because it is the key point of what opportunities one will receive and the friends one will have. Next, the shadow is known as the dark side of a person. It is one’s hidden secrets, fears, and insecurities. One fear that consumed me for most of my life was the fear of disappointing others. I used to do everything in my power to make sure others were content because I could not live with the fact that I could possibly be one reason someone was disappointed. I was bullied for many years in school when I was younger. I felt the reason why people bullied
Compassion, accountability, and determination are my personal strengths. I have experienced the joy and satisfaction of working with special needs children to expose them to art, and learned the importance of tolerance and acceptance. Additionally, I spent a week in a rural Alaska village of less than 300 people. Their culture and lifestyle opened my eyes to a social and economic class completely different from my own. I care deeply about peoples’ feelings, and believe that everyone should be treated with equal respect, irrespective of his or her disability, race, social, cultural, religious, political or economic background. I enjoy interactions with people from socially and culturally diverse backgrounds, learning about
Everyone has different qualities and interests that make them unique individuals. After interviewing a fellow classmate of mine, Ruedi Kasabach, I have learned why he is the person he is today. Ruedi has lived with his family in Trenton New Jersey, his entire life. He is currently a boarder at Peddie. In his free time, Ruedi often watches tv, plays soccer, or spends quality time with his brother. In the future, Ruedi plans to take on a career focusing on sports. Ruedi’s hobbies, aspirations, and values demonstrate his active lifestyle and express his distinctive personality.
My character is shown in school, as well as outside of school. In school, alongside being a prestigious student, I’m also a great peer. I am never afraid to reach out to someone that needs help if I
T.s- There is a little bit of darkness in everyone, but if you accept it and learn from it, you can grow, but if you repress it and never deal with it; then there will be severe consequences.
An example of the innate need to question and change the way that psychologists think about a particular subject is when Austrian psychiatrist Sigmund Freud (1856-1939) first defined the unconscious as a reservoir of mostly unacceptable thoughts, wishes, feelings, and memories, many psychologists agreed with Freud’s thinking; however, Carl Jung (1875-1961), believed that the unconscious was more than what Freud described. Jung believed that the unconscious has two layers: a collective unconscious- containing the shared memories of the common human past, which he named archetypes- and the
To begin with, the definition of shadow is very important to this story. Shadow as a noun means a dark figure or likeness cast upon the ground, but it can also be a
According to Carl Jung an archetype is a model of peoples behaviors or personalities that function to organize how we experience certain things. Jung’s archetypes fall into many categories and are classified by different personality attributes. For example, one who is stern, powerful, and controlling would be an archetype for a father or person in command. An epic hero is a brave and noble character in an epic poem, admired for great achievements or affected by great events.
I've always found it incredibly hard to describe myself. I feel like I don't really fit into any specific category because I have many different traits from different personality types and don't just fit into one set group. Looking at the archetypes Carl Jung came up with, I can definitely see that I identify with several different archetypes. Starting with ego, I think I identify most with the orphan/regular gal. The orphan wants to belong, to fit in, and not lose themselves in trying so hard to fit in. I struggle with this a lot, actually. I always feel the desire to want to fit in, I want to blend in and connect with people without standing out too much. I want to make friends and have people to talk to, but I also don't want to be singled out and have
It is one of life’s biggest shames that it is not possible to meet every person and learn their story- what they ponder at 3 AM, what makes them laugh, what worries them, what they dream of. However, at MSU, I can interact with the wide variety of personality types and augment the already phenomenal culture by sharing my viewpoints and enhancing others’ understanding of people, which is important in any career pathway.
Carl Gustav Jung is a Swiss psychiatrist and the successor of psychoanalysis with important intellectual movements of the twentieth century. In his early career, Jung was influenced by the theory of Sigmund Freud, the founder of psychoanalysis (Breger 2000, p. 217). However, they came into disagreement in notions which then broke their relationship. It was because Freud’s view of myth was based on reality, which there was no religion involved, whereas Jung though that myth was based on both reality and religion. Consequently, Jung’s notions were commonly accepted by society because of the wider context. Then, through his research and clinical findings, he developed some concepts like archetypes, collective unconscious, shadow, extrovert and introvert and persona (Carter 2011 p. 442). These concepts help Jung to deepen the explanation about myth. For Jung, myth is a projection of archetypes and collective unconscious. Their form are universal and identical with every society back into history. Myth can be identical because the original form, the archetypes, is configured to be the same among human's unconscious globally where people's psychic realm encounters certain motifs and typical figures that built into the structure of man’s unconsciousness (Jung Myth Ex. 3-4). According to Edward Tylor and James Frazer, myth and science were contradict where science was factual and myth was not (Segal 2003, p. 48). Therefore, myth has an important role in human nature and modern
Individuation can now be described as the process of becoming whole. According to Jung, who throughout his life especially the latter half of his life, strived to become one with himself and integrate all the components of himself (Storr, 1991). Jung states that the first part of a person’s life is to have a place in the world. He goes on to state that one must cut ties with their parents and start their own lives, with their significant other (Storr, 1991). Jung had to abandon mundane things to reach his individuation (Storr, 1991). He proposes that a person must leave earthly things to reach individuation. For example, an educated person must leave his academic work to self-analyze and become complete. Jung himself let go
The archetypes, which is one of the eight psychological types from Jung’s theory explains the dissonance that Peter is having. The anima and the animus archetypes refer to Jung’s recognition that humans are bisexual in their psyche. He defines the anima as the psyche of the man what contains the feminine aspects. His anima is persuading Peter to assume the traditional female role, and to care for the children and to care for the house. At the same time, Peter’s masculine characteristics of being the breadwinner is exhibited. The animus is responsible for this behavior as it is masculine aspects of the psyche. The interplay of the anima and the animus is causing Peter to continue to work and earn money for his family and to quit his job and to stay home with his family.
In the 1920’s, a Swiss psychologist named Carl Jung devised a theory. Jung didn’t accept the idea that the behaviors of people were random. Instead, he was a firm believer that the differences between individuals were a result of how people use their brains. Jung claimed that “what appears to be random behavior is actually the result of differences in the way people prefer to use their mental capacities.” (The Myers & Briggs Foundation). Jung realized that people typically function in one of two ways, take in information or make decisions, and that people usually are more comfortable alone or around others. With all these observations, Jung wrote a book titled Psychological Types, which introduced the idea of personality and psychological
Carl Jung was a Psychologist and a Psychiatrist born in 1875 in Switzerland. He worked with Sigmund Freud for a while but branched off because he disagreed with him about the “sexual basis of neurosis”. Jung believed that there is a collective unconscious that is connected to everyone. God is included in this collective unconscious. His theory included what he called archetypes; pathways of energy (not things) that are shared in the collective. four main archetypes are: The Self, The Shadow, The Anima/Animus, and the Persona. The Self is the combination of the conscious, and the individual’s unconscious. the self is usually represented by a square or a circle. The self tries to make itself known. The shadow is made up of our sexual desires or instincts, and is credited with being the darker side of our personalities. The Anima/Animus are the masculine and feminine of our psyche. There are traces of each found in both women and men. The Persona is the face that people put on for others. The word “persona” comes from the Latin word for mask. This is the personality the world sees. (Carl Jung Archetypes) Jung coined the word
Within are experiment we will be assessing whether or not opposite sexes, can hold opposing personality traits, therefore a Jung(1968), supports this notion as he developed the idea of ‘archetypes’ when referencing to gender roles within the subconscious, he believed that within males there is a feminine part of their psych inherited by the mother. The Females have an Animus, this is a masculine part within their psyche inherited by their father. However, Jung could have been leading the audiences to the conclusion of these archetypes and no other expectation for different personalities, furthermore this is an old reference , which could potentially be out dated (Jung C 1968 Vol.9, Part1)