Individuation Analysis : Jung's Theory Of Personality

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

Carl Gustav Jung (a.k.a. C.G. Jung) was born in 1875, in Switzerland, and worked closely with Freud for many years, he learned many things from him in this time. Eventually Jung split from him because his ideas and concepts of psychoanalysis began to differ from those of Freud. Jung was a convectionist, unlike Freud who was a reductionist. Jung saw dreams as a way to come up with solutions to problems you are facing in your waking life. Jung took Freud’s one technique of “free association” and expanded on it. Unlike Freud, he saw this concept as being extremely important. He thought that the dreamer’s thoughts and opinions on what the dream could mean are even more important than anyone else’s, including many times an expert. Dreams, to Freud, are a way of interacting with your unconscious. Carl Jung’s methods to interpreting dreams could be a very important step to help people lead happier and healthier lives. He believed that the manifest content in our dreams is just as important as the latent content when it comes to interpreting our dreams. Freud took a very hands on approach when interpreting people’s dreams, but Jung put forth less information from himself because he thought dream interpretation relied heavily on the dreamer himself. A college student who is experiencing nightmares consistently may visit a psychologist who knows about the meanings of dreams. A psychiatrist who believes more in Freud’s ways may take the dream as being

Both Freud and Jung provided important and interesting theories on dreams; encompassing their functions, their roots, and their meanings. Freud looked at dreams as a result of repressed memories, particularly repressed sexual memories from our childhood. Jung however, believed that dreams delved beyond sexual repression during younger years, to other problems, be it trauma, anxiety etc. Jung also believed dreams changed predominately through middle adult years, while Freud believed the opposite. There is little empirical evidence to reinforce either Freud or Jung’s theories, however, their contributions to the study of dreams in psychology cannot be lessened or denied.

Discussion of personality and how the history relates The client display a wide range of traits; however, her apparent personality is introverted. While she discussed her character throughout the session, Ms. Nguyen only answer the question given, without trying to expand the conversation. Her parents divorced when she was young; thus, her independent could have develop from living alone with only her mother. While she is calm and collected, the client is stubborn in a sense, and refuse to be belittle by others.

Accounts of his early psychiatric cases, as related to his assistants at Bughholzli, provide an interesting overview of Jung as an individual as well as his formative ideas in the field of psychotherapy and analysis. These early cases and the conclusions he draws from them are, much like his predecessor and one-time colleague, Sigmund Freud, sometimes revolutionary and brilliant. Yet, as I had stated in my earlier paper on Jung, I also found there to be a frustratingly limited and seemingly biased quality to much of this work that, I felt, said as much about Jung the person as it did about the work itself. I also felt that this frustration was compounded by the fact that Jung openly criticized and departed from what he felt was non-progressive methodologies and ideologies of Freud and other contemporaries.

Jung also felt his mental patients at the asylum of Burgholzli were lost souls, hanging out in the land of the dead, an intuition that persons undergoing psychosis are lost to the everyday world of ordinary reality and are lost in the imaginal realm of non-ordinary reality (the collective unconscious). On occasion, Jung was able to pull such persons out of this lost realm and back into ordinary life. Certainly through his analytic and psychotherapy practice, he was able to facilitate the recovery of souls, not through trance journeys, but through analysis of dreams, of transference and counter-transference, and through the power of a deep relationship with him (Kindle Locations 1989-1993).

The dream has its own limitation. Its specific form tells us what belongs to it and what leads away from it”( 196). Jung is right in his approach because the process of understanding the symbols presented in dreams can be important. As dream is a symbolic expression of our unconscious mind, understanding of dream itself and interpretation of dream helps us to have better understanding of human inner world and self. As Jung says that dreams have some special and significant function of their own and they do have their own shape, structure and purpose having their own actual content. Actually here, Jung goes further than his previous proponent Sigmund Freud who associates dreams with his theory of repression and wish fulfillment. Freud approach of dream with free association might gives the starting point and provides the platform from which the unconscious problem of the patience might be explored but sometimes there is a chances of misleading the actual content of dream itself. Freud example of stick and keys stands for symbols of men’s organs in his dream interpretation does not seems suitable in all human life situation. It cannot be always interpreted stick and keys with men’s organs. On the other hand, Jung clarifies that dream can be stand for its own meaning according to human unconsciousness related with individual life experienced and his socio-

According to Carl Jung, individuation is the process of transforming one’s psyche by unifying the personal and collective unconscious into consciousness as one. In other words, it is

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

Eventually, Freud’s student Jung developed a second theory of dream analysis. It was Jung’s position that dreams cannot deceive. They are an unfiltered, pure display of the unconscious. While he agreed that dreams used fairy tales, myths, symbolism, and culture to convey thought, he was firm in the belief that only the dreamer could determine the true meaning of the dream based on the context of those symbols in their own life. Again, this method of dream interpretation is very subjective. While one’s conscious self may associate a dream with a particular meaning, the unconscious may not have been doing so.

Carl Jung’s concept of individuation is the quest for wholeness in which the subject becomes conscious of themselves as unique and distinct. Seated very much in the tradition of enlightenment, the idea places emphasis on the individual 's capacity to gain further understanding and knowledge through analysis and reasoning, investing the individual with the power to defy trends and avoid group think. Imagine a tiny pebble thrown into a pond, causing a rippling effect through the surrounding water. Although the pebble is small, it causes multiple ripples that significantly change the pond, even if temporarily. Similarly, a single character in a novel can cause ripples in the lives of other characters. Our actions and choices are capable of causing ripples in the 'ponds ' of other 's realities, even those largely disconnected from our own. These ripples shape a person 's impression of individuality and of their Self. In Robertson Davies’ ‘Fifth Business’, even the minor characters that Dunstan Ramsay encounters, as well as his various experiences have different degrees of impact on his process of Individuation. Throughout the novel, Dunstan is self-reflective and becomes aware not only of how he is being shaped, but of himself as an identifiable form, at once shaped by his environment and propelled by his will. Carl Jung defined an archetype as "[an] original model of a person, ideal example, or a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned, or emulated; a symbol

Jung became more interested in the study of mythological and religious symbolism. His studies took him across the globe observing many different cultures. He was interested in tracing the analogies between the contents of the unconscious in Western man and the myths, cults, and rituals of primitive peoples. Jungian therapy deals with dreams and fantasies. A discussion is set up between the conscious and the contents of the unconscious.

Jung typically analyzed dreams with respect not only to the dreamer and their own associations, but also using his own archetypical associations developed throughout human history. Jung also acknowledged both objective and subjective portions of dreams, meaning that some parts of dream may contain deeper significance, while occasionally parts of dreams may have no deeper value. This essay will examine a dream using Jung’s methods.

According to Isabell Briggs Myers, “It is up to each person to recognize his or her true preferences” (“MBTI® Basics” n.d.). The Myers-Briggs Type Inventory, better known as the MBTI, is based off C. G. Jung or Carl Jung’s theory of eight psychological types. These “eight types” explained by Jung, fall under one of the four functions; sensing, intuition, thinking, or feeling and are combined with one of two attitudes; extraversion and introversion (“Carl Jung” n.d.). The MBTI has 16 personality types that make Carl Jung’s psychological type understandable and practical. After completing the MBTI, you are given a four-letter type in which could be different from anyone else that completes the MBTI, no type is better or worse, it is assigned to you based on how you answered the questions. Also, there is no right or wrong answer. When assigned a four-four letter type, the letters are based on these four different categories, favorite world (extraversion or introversion, information (sensing or intuition, decisions (thinking or feeling) and structure (judging or perceiving) (“MBTI® Basics” n.d.).

Sigmund Freud was a psychologist who believed that everyone had that same three different parts to their personality. These are called the ID, the ego and the superego. The ID is known as the childish part of our personalities. It wants instant gratification. The Ego is the rational part of the personality and is able to make the ID see