Critique Of Carl Jung 's Theory Of The Collective Unconscious

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

Jung was a psychoanalytical theorist who suggested that personality is influenced by factors deep in the unconscious such as dreams and fantasies (Papadopoulos, 2006, p. 8). His main therapeutic outcome is for people to go through the individuation process in order to realise who they truly are in relation to other and apart from others (Schultz & Schultz, 2012, p. 115). He believed the psyche was comprised of the ego and two different levels of the unconscious; the personal and collective unconscious. The ego contains a person’s awareness of their emotions, memories and thoughts. The personal unconscious is comprised of repressed or forgotten memories, knowledge and experience (Crellin, 2004, p. 5).

Jung agrees with Freud that personal conscious is a repository of content previously conscious, even though they may have been forgotten. For example; collective unconscious can be hereditary and transferred to another, which is why Jung agreed with Freud’s argument that Anna transferred her affect to Breuer. Both Jung and Freud agree that a human’s unconsciousness is buried deep and few are able to reach it on a psychoanalysis level. However, Jung disagreed with Freud’s claims that sexuality is the basis of unconscious

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

However I don’t see how anything meaningful came out of it. Unless it’s never drive on your birthday. Maybe it is not for one person but the other. I can see where Jung is coming from but I still believe your destiny is not predetermined by a lesson you need to learn it’s by your actions nobody elses. When it comes to the collective unconscious has been with humans since the beginning of time (or so we think). This is probably his biggest work that I am skeptical about. The reason I am is if I have a collective unconscious it probably doesn’t work because I think back about the stupidest things that I have done in my whole life almost every single day. Not that I hate it, I actually think it makes me strive to be a better human being. On the other hand, I wish it was a lot less prevalent. I still remember being haunted by calling my kindergarten teacher Mom. A truly horrific experience. The collective unconscious I believe can be found in a large amount of range between defending grief over a loss or a social blunder. My life hasn’t experienced any recent tragedy so I don’t know how far it will protect me from certain

    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 began to assert the importance of myth, including findings that myths from around the world seemed to have certain common elements although completely isolated and uninfluenced by one another. Seeing that these similarities were in large number Jung began to apply them to his theories. The more popular of the theories include the concept of the archetype, the anima and the animus. The theory that best suits the style of Hawthorne’s Gothic is that of conflict, both internal and external. Jung’s approach to conflict involved the many internal conflicts between the conscious and unconscious parts of the mind. Jung saw these similarities often led to similarities in the psychologies of the different cultures. The conflict between the conscious and the unconscious is a basic premise of this realm of thought. Jung supposed that the unconscious was always "yearning" to become a part of the conscious mind. Assuming this is true, repressed memories, thoughts or tendencies are always trying to surface into the conscious mind. This is what Jung proposed was the main element in the conflict between the conscious and the unconscious. With this it is possible to ask questions about Minister Hooper’s intent. Assuming that repression is the driving force behind his actions, it is safe to presume he is hiding something. The "something" in this case is not the most important part, until conclusion takes place, of this particular part of the analysis. Was Mr. Hooper hiding this

The collective unconscious is composed of primordial images, or archetypes, inherited from our racial, and even animal, past. Its contents can be helpful but, if ignored, can interfere with effective functioning.

The collective Unconscious is literally the unconscious part of your mind that exhibits your natural reactions and behavior.

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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According to the psychiatrist Carl Jung (1981), the shadow of one’s personality is defined as “that hidden, repressed, for the most part inferior and guilt-laden personality whose ultimate ramifications reach back into the realm of our animal ancestors” (paragraph 221). The shadow is the unconscious part of the personality that reflects some of our animal instincts and impulses derived through evolution, such as desiring sex, status, or resources. It can also be a source of more positive compulsions, such as those that inspire creativity. The shadow may be a part of what Carl Jung called the “collective unconscious” since the inner shadow is something that we derived from our ancestors. In some ways, the Jungian shadow is similar to the Freudian id. Like Jung’s shadow, Freud’s id describes the part of

For Jung, the ego is the conscious mind that is responsible for feelings of identity and continuity. Through ego, people establish a stable way to perceive themselves. There are two kinds of unconscious, the personal unconscious, and the collective unconscious. Personal unconscious includes our repressed or forgotten experiences, perceptions and thoughts that are easily retrieved. Before Nina perceives Lily as a rival for Swan Queen, the audiences only see the innocent side of Nina. We can find that her mother still coddles her like a child, but a bird cannot learn to fly if its parents never let it out of the nest. Nina is frigid and afraid of imperfection. She cries in her pink bedroom after being criticized by the director. However, the competition stimulates her hidden wilderness to surface up. She does not want to be the fragile girl anymore; she tries to seduce the director to strive for the leading role; She even kills Lily in her imagination when she thought Lily wants to replace her role. Trying to feel the wild spirit of Black Swan, she forgets perfectionism and “ loses herself.” I think “lose herself” is a kind of “freeing herself, freeing her inner wildness, freeing her sensual beauty, freeing her independent mind from her extended childhood. Personal unconscious is unique for each individual, but the collective unconscious is shared in a certain group.

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