Carl Jung 's Theory Of Collective Unconscious

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

His intense curiosity of God and the church was also reflected in some of his archetypes. In particular, in the persona and the shadow. From my readings and research, it seems to me like the shadow is very representative of the devil or sin (Neher, 1996). With such an evolvement of theory and therapy, I do not that think that archetypes could be easily understood and applied today. Jung, much like Freud put a lot of emphasis on the unconscious. His theory of the collective unconscious which is a way in which all humankind is connected seems a bit mystical and outdated. During Jung's time, this theory like many of his other approaches was relevant and applied easily into therapy. In today's day, I do not think that Jung's theories could be functional since there was a move away from mysticism and religion. I had a hard time finding research that validated his theories and showed how they were useful in psychotherapy, especially in the United States. A lot of the research conducted was in Europe. I think this is one of the major weaknesses that I noticed in his theory. There is not a lot of empirical research, at least conducted in the United States that suggests that his theories have been effective in

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.

    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

Jung has contributed many things, but his biggest contribution to the subject of literary criticism is his idea of archetypes. An archetype can be described as a “… deeper layer of the unconscious that contained inherited, impersonal,

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

Carl Jung criticized Freud for concentrating simply on the outer and target parts of a man's fantasy as opposed to taking a look at both the goal and subjective substance. One of the more specific parts of Jung's dream theory was that fantasies could express individual, and also collective or common substance. This all common or collective content was shown through what Jung named as 'Archetype which is the model picture of a man or role and incorporates the mother figure, father, shrewd old man and clown/joker, among others. The mother figure is trustworthy and empathetic. We as a whole holds comparative thoughts of the mother figure and we see her across other cultures and in our language, for example, the term ‘mother nature’.

Carl Gustav Jung was somewhat of a "son" to Freud, but he quickly outgrew his "father 's" theories, and, in an ironically Œdipal conflict, overthrew Freud as the leading psychotherapist.(8) The buzzword of Jungian theory is "archetype," so the text of his being used in this study is Four Archetypes. In The Critical Tradition, the editor gives the description of archetypes as "structures deep in the human unconscious."(9) The editor continues and says, "In Jungian analysis, the patient recapitulates his life and looks for the ways in which symbols of the above-mentioned archetypes have been embodied within its texture."(10) From Four Archetypes, the section on rebirth will be the most useful to this study. Jung 's essay "Rebirth" includes descriptions of five different forms of rebirth along with their psychological implications.

“But screw your courage to the sticking-place, And we’ll not fail.”-Lady Macbeth (Shakespeare 17).In William Shakespeare’s Macbeth Lady Macbeth was the dominate partner in her marriage. Carl Gustav Jung was the most famous student of Sigmund Freud. Jung was Freud’s favorite son and his successor (Bressler 149). With all successors they move on and Jung became “one of the leading forces in the psychoanalytic movement” (Bressler 149). With him creating his own form of the human psyche which consist of three parts: the personal conscious, personal unconscious, and the collective unconscious. The other part of Jung’s human psyche is the archetype, which is a repetition of human experiences. This also includes the animus, which is the masculine

Jung was highly committed to grasping the meaning of psychotic thinking, and left behind precious insights to treatment scattered through his works written between 1906 and 1958. The tendency of today's psychiatry is to attribute the psychotic process to alteration in the brain's anatomy, biochemistry and electrophysiology, thus exempting the subject, i.e. the afflicted person, from responsibility for attachment to reality and their sanity. Jung understood schizophrenia as an 'abaissement du niveau mental', a similar phenomenon to the one encountered in dreams, and caused by a peculiar 'faiblesse de la volonté'. He contested that complexes in schizophrenia, in contrast with neurotic disorders, are disconnected and can either never reintegrate

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

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

Jung, C. G. Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Volume 9 (Part 1): Archetypes and the Collective

Carl Jung was a Psychologist and psychiatrist who developed a form of analytic psychotherapy. Many of his Ideas can be paralleled to religious spirituality and healing in India. In this paper, I hope to provide information about Carl Jung and his ideas about psychoanalysis, different methods of religious healing in India, and a comparison of the two.