Carl Jung and the Spiritual Anima and Animus

When Jung published his pivotal book named Transformations and Symbols of the Libido in 1912, Jung for the first time proposed the existence of the collective unconscious. The major source of Jung’s new inspiration came from the Miller fantasies interpreted by Theodore Floumoy, a renowned psychologist and a reverted friend of Jung. Being a young and intelligent student of Floumoy, Miss Frank Miller wrote a phenomenological dissertation named Some Instances of Subconscious Creative Imagination describing the fantastical images of her inward journey. During the analysis, Jung’s observation of archetypal images and mythological characters in the Miller fantasies acted as a catalyst on his stored-up ideas especially after his deep accumulation

Carl Jung (1875 – 1961) was a one time friend and colleague of Sigmund Freud, who initially held similar views to Freud. He started to feel dissatisfied with Freud’s ideas though and broke away from that school of thought in 1913. Jung also had a great interest in mystical and magical subjects, Buddhism and Hinduism, which influenced Jung’s own ideas on a theory of personality. He too, suggested there were 3 parts; the conscious mind (or ego), the personal unconscious, and the collective unconscious. ‘The main point of difference between the two men (Jung and Freud) was Freud’s definition of sexuality and libido. Although Jung conceded the importance of the

Sigmund Freud was born in 1856 to a Jewish Family and grew up in Freiberg, Moravia which is now a part of the Czech Republic. Freud was the eldest of eight children from his mother and had older half-brothers from his father's previous marriage. The family was very poor, but

It is generally accepted that the human existence is not merely encompassed in terms of isolated instincts or purposive mechanisms such as hunger, power, sex, survival, perpetuation of the species and so on (M.-L. von Franz 202). Men have always seeked a state of self-awareness -- a more spiritual type fulfillment that is attained by coming to terms with one’s role and purpose in the world. While this psychological phenomenon has been known intuitively by civilisations across time, it has been the aim of modern psychology dissect and explain it. Psychoanalyst Carl C. Jung in particular has made it a cornerstone of his career to study this human endeavour which he eventually coined individuation - “the process by which the conscious and unconscious within an individual learn to know, respect and accommodate one another.” (Freeman 14) His research proposes that individuation follows a universal pattern whereby one must encounter and assimilate a series of

Freud believed our behavior is already determined by our experiences we had from childhood through the unconscious mind and that the occurrences we had in our childhood can have such an impact on our behavior as we grow into adulthood. Psychodynamic theory is often referred to as psychoanalytical therapy which describes the terms of personality through psychological process which includes our dreams, fears and wishes we are not fully aware of through psychotherapy explores the clients unconscious thoughts and emotions. He suggested that our personalities are formed by three reasons: the ego, id, and superego the Intrapsychic elements. A supporter of Sigmund Freud early on was Carl Jung, a member of Vienna Psychoanalytic Society. They shared interest of the unconscious. Jung anticipated that the unconscious mind consisted of two layers which emphasized the importance of the unconscious in relation to personality. Personal unconscious is the first layer and this layer is basically the same version of the unconscious as Freud’s. This part of the unconscious contains information that is temporarily forgotten and becomes a part of your repressed memories. The Collective Unconscious known as the second layer is considered the most important and significant difference between Carl Jung and Sigmund Freud. This is said to be Jung’s most original workings and that it is very controversial to the personality theory. (McLeod, S. A. (2014). Carl Jung.

Analytical Psychology (Carl Jung; combines history, anthropology, mythology, religion…midlife crisis)…influenced by past & future events moving us towards individuation (integration of conscious and unconscious)…constructive and destructive (shadow) forces which must accept; collective conscious—past and history of species; persona—mask we wear to protect ourselves, animus/anima—biological & psychological parts of M and F, shadow—dark side; unconscious discovery prepares for the near future & bring balance between opposites of individual

Ernst Junger was born in 1985 in Heidelburg, Germany. Although, Ernst was raised in Hanover, Germany. He was the son of a successful businessman and chemist. He volunteered for the German army in 1914 and was first deployed to France in 1915. Junger was a member of

    The great psychologist-philosopher Carl Jung was briefly a student of Freud. Because Jung felt that Freud's approach to psychoanalysis was by far too narrow, he broke off from his teachings, and made significant contributions to mythological criticism. Jung's greatest contribution was his theory of archetypes. His proposal of archetypes argues that there is one original pattern or model of all things of the same type. According to Jung, beneath the personal unconscious is a collective unconscious that is in the psychic inheritance of all humans. Jung thought of the collective unconscious as a sort of memory bank that stores images and ideas that humans have accumulated over the course

Carl Jung is credited with developing the concept of archetypes to explain that there were universal patterns in all stories regardless of culture or the historical period (REFERENCE). He believed that part of the human mind contained a collective unconscious shared by all members of the human species (REFERENCE). Academic, Joseph Campbell refined Jung’s theory of an archetype and applied it to a more specific narrative form.

The purpose of this paper is to look into the life and accomplishments of a well-known psychoanalyst, Carl Gustav Jung. Jung’s work brought forth several new concepts in psychology. While alive, his work influenced colleagues and continued to influence the future of psychology after his death.

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

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The founding fathers of psychoanalytic personality, Freud, Jung, and Adler had their ideas about the conscious and unconscious mind. Freud believed the unconscious mind controlled all sexual behaviors. Jung believed in archetypes or symbols represent the mind. Adler believed in the individuality of personality. Although they did not agree with each other on many theories, the combination of work and ideas from these men contributed to modern

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.

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