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    WHAT ARE MYTHS AND THE REASON BEHIND MYTHOLOGY? Mythos, the Greek word for myth means story, appertain to colorful tales that enlightens about the origins of humans and the universe. Myths, as amazing as it sounds, is also a cause for birth of new religions, where and how they originated. Many cultures have myths about how the gods and goddesses came to be, even elucidating the origin of humanity and its traditions. Even ideas about how this world of ours came to existence have many myths, creation

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    of its unconscious conditions.” -Carl Jung The author of the lines mentioned above, Carl Gustav Jung, is one of the major contributors of the Psycho Analytic perspective of understanding personality. Jung who was born in Kesswil, Switzerland, in 1875, was a very close associative of Sigmund Freud. The duo shared a lot of common ideas and thoughts beginning from their

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    psychoanalysis and in mythology to the study of literature. The main tendency of this approach to criticism resembles to the early conception of form in Western thought. Collective unconscious lays beneath the personal conscious and personal unconscious. As Jung said, the collective unconscious is ‘‘a storehouse of knowledge, experiences, and images of the human race. It is a racial memory,

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    For many years the question of whether or not the unconscious mind really exists, and if it does then what does it consist of has baffled many theorist’s minds and has made many philosophers question themselves. There have been debates on whether the conscious mind is influenced by other parts of the mind. These parts are indented within the unconscious, which has processes such as personal habits, intuition and being oblivious to certain things in life. While we are completely aware of what is happening

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    http://psychology.about.com). Our unconscious contains thoughts, memories, and desires that are well below the surface of awareness but that nevertheless have a great influence on behavior. The influence of Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist Carl Gustav Jung’s work in analytical psychology has never been more prominent in texts than it is today. “Introversion and “extroversion” have become standard words. Most people are aware of the connection between the “individual psyche” and the “collective

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    Personality Theories  Table of Contents Freud Jung Adler Rogers Maslow Humanistic strengths and weakness Psychodynamic strengths and weakness Some similarities of both Web Resources Freud Biography Biography Sigmund Freud was born May 6, 1856, in a small town -- Freiberg -- in Moravia. His father was a wool merchant with a keen mind and a good sense of humor. His mother was a lively woman, her husband's second wife and 20 years younger. She was 21 years old when she gave birth

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    ESTP vs. INFJ The Myer-Briggs Personality Theory is based off of the thoughts of Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst. However, the theory was created by a mother-daughter duo consisting of Katharine Briggs and Isabel Briggs Myers. The two women believed that by using the “stereotypes”, as Jung referred to them as, it could help individuals understand their unique personalities. At the crux of Myer-Briggs, lies the deciding personality “stereotypes”. These include introversion

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    splendor. I must state clearly that this is not the first time that Gilgamesh has been viewed in the light of the philosophy of Jung.  One of two Jung essays I happened upon while preparing my research was the Psychology of Religion. Although I initially felt that this source would provide little help with my paper, I was very mistaken. On the seventeenth page, I have discovered Jung directly referencing Gilgamesh himself. While researching, I consulted the many translations of Gilgamesh found on the

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    writers, artists, all of humanity as a whole and each individual thinks and reflects on the problem of death, trying to resolve the issues associated with its mysteries. Plato, Aristotle, Epicurus, and Schopenhauer, Nietzsche, Kübler-Ross, Freud, Jung, Adler, devoted the works to studying of a problem of the death. The problem of the man’s relation to death continues being the source of fair in modern society too, and people prefer not to speak about it. Therefore, in our world, most people die

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    Personality Typologies Carl Gustav Young had quite an interesting mind. He believed that while he was growing up, his mother had to different personalities. Shortly after, he began to believe he was more than one person. He felt that he was both the child he actually was as well as a wise old man. Jung had a lonely childhood. He was the only surviving child of his parents and when he wasn’t dealing with their completely opposite personalities, he was being left out when all the kids in school played

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