The unconscious is an aspect of the human psyche that still baffles psychologist today. In our unconscious, we potentially contain repressed memories, desires, and behaviors. The individual unconsciously executes many of the behaviors or desires. However, there is more to the unconscious than our personal memories and behaviors. Carl G. Jung, a psychologist, was one of Freud’s friends and student. Jung diverged from Freud because his perception that the unconscious mainly contains repressed memories. Freud had his understanding of these instinctual behaviors, but mostly dismissed the concept as insignificant. Although, Freud did not particularly accept the collective unconscious, Jung developed his theories despite disapproval. Jung explains …show more content…
“The collective unconscious is different from and in addition to the personal unconscious in that it is a stratum of reality that does not derive from personal experience and is not a personal acquisition but is inborn...universal...[and] more or less the same everywhere and in all individuals.” (Tresan, 2005) This clearly illustrates that the personal unconscious is all that we experience and understand as we go through our life, from childhood to old age. However, the unconscious is much more than our personal experiences and memories. It is far greater than this. The collective unconscious is a pool of information “inborn” into every human being. All living creatures experience the collective unconscious though. For example, a bird has innate abilities keen to flying. The bird knows nothing about lift or air pressure, when to glide and when to flap its wings. The bird instinctively acts on these concepts without every picking up an aviation manual. Like the bird, humans contain instinctive behaviors in many different ways. Therefore, we see that the collective unconscious differs from the personal unconscious. This is because it the collective unconscious that contains the human archetypes and instinctual behaviors. These behaviors are not developed over the course of someone’s …show more content…
These fundamental images have lasted since the far reaches of time. The archetypal images are concepts regarding nature, interpersonal relationships, religion, and a whole range of other aspects of human society. For example, we all innately understand the concept of water. This is something that we are not taught or trained to know and accept. Nevertheless, the idea of water in dreams and visions has held meaning for men all throughout history. The individual may not be conscious of the significance from water. Over the course of Jung’s life, he studied thousands of dreams comparing and contrasting their significances and found many common themes, like the concept of water. Now to be clear the archetypal images are only representations of the inherent archetypes. “These images are not archetypes themselves; they are the experienced expression of the archetype. The archetype itself is an inherited mode of psychic functioning analogous to inherited behavior patterns.” (Sills, 1968) Therefore, fairy tales and myths are representations of these innate “modes of psychic functioning.” Carl Jung understood that we all have these archetypal images in our lives, but an individual can
With the introduction of the unconscious into the question as an element of mediation, the position becomes more complex. Here we begin to explore the Psycho-social view of the world. (Rustin, 2008) outlines the Freudian view of the unconscious mind as being feelings, thoughts and urges that are
In conclusion, we can affect our unconscious by understanding and adjusting the environment around
The archetypes reflect dreams and relate to cultures. In different cultures, the “archetypes” (2005) would be different. However, Joseph Campbell comes up with the Monomyth, which believes myth is metaphor. Joseph Campbell demonstrates that all stories are expression of the same story-pattern. The hero’s journey all follows the departure, initiation and return.
The collective Unconscious is literally the unconscious part of your mind that exhibits your natural reactions and behavior.
Freud identified the unconscious, the preconscious and the conscious in terms of mental activity. Within the unconscious are thoughts, experiences and feelings which are not easily accessible but which have great influences on the current mental activity in the conscious. Memories, half forgotten, but easy to access offer a route to the unconscious, thus belonging to the preconscious.
behaviour is controlled by the ‘unconscious’ and that the mind was made up of three
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
The personal unconscious contains temporality forgotten information and well as repressed memories. Jung also believed that the personal unconscious was much nearer the surface than Freud suggested, therefore, repressed memories and experiences can be brought to the persons conscious without any great difficulty. Jungian therapy is less concerned with repressed childhood experiences. Jung based his theory on the present and the
Also, his aim which is to give a complete theory of human nature is way over-ambitious. Yet, this can be argued that cognitive psychology has identified unconscious processes, like our memory (Tulving, 1972), processing information (Bargh &Chartrand, 1999), and social psychology has shown the significance of implicit processing (Greenwald & Banaji, 1995). These findings have confirmed unconscious processes in human behaviour.
Carl Jung described archetypes as important recollections of the past human experiences that are present in the unconscious mind in a combined form. Here, we describe these archetypes as patterns and images, which are actualized by the conscious mind in a number of forms, when viewing the outside world.
There are many facts that are unknown about the mind. For centuries, philosophers and scientists have tried to understand how it works. We have learned that the mind has a number of different levels of processing. Before Sigmund Freud “nearly all the previous research and theorizing of psychologists had dealt with conscious, such as perception, memory, judgment, and learning“ (Hunt185). Freud brought forth a number of theories that dealt with “the unconscious and its crucial role in human behavior”(Hunt 185). The unconscious is a storage area for information that is not being used. It is also the home of “powerful primitive drives and forbidden wishes that constantly generated pressure on the conscious mind”(Hunt
The three pound ball of neurons floating carefully encased within the confinement of the human skull is surely sheltered from all previous knowledge and understanding of human experience; perhaps not as collective unconscious, a theory proposed by psychologist Carl Jung, argues memories may transcend time—defying traditional thought (Saladin 70). Jung makes a bold claim with his hypothesis in his new found concept, collective unconscious, however it is not without flaw or even remotely impermeable to counter arguments. This theory asserts that there are “archetypes” or fundamentally instincts and memories passed down to all humans (939). Jung's collective unconscious is in gross neglect of following proper scientific method, taking information
Jung made some major contributions in psychotherapy. Jung was the first to say that a therapist himself must be analyzed (Storr, 1991). Unlike Freud who had his patients lie on a couch, Jung suggested that face to face contact with a patient was essential (Storr, 1991). He wanted to see his patients face. He also saw patients less times a week then Freud did (Storr, 1991). He stated that he did not want his patients to stop living their normal everyday lives. Dreams were an important aspect of Jung’s psychotherapy. He dedicated a great deal of time and work on the interpretation of dreams
The collective unconscious, refers to a segment of the deepest unconscious mind not shaped by personal experience. It's genetically inherited and common to all human beings. These collective unconscious was expressed through 'archetypes', universal thought forms or mental images that influenced an individual's feelings and action.