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    Carl Jung was a famous psychologist, who founded the ideas of an extroverted and introverted personality, archetypes, and collective unconscious. He dabbled in many other areas such as religion, mythology, and alchemy, while still including his findings in psychology. Carl Jung spent most of the end of his career studying alchemy and incorporating his psychological views into the subject. His rapid interest of alchemy came from a vivid dream about an ancient library of old books. Some of his ideas

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    Carl Jung Archetypes

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    always found it incredibly hard to describe myself. I feel like I don't really fit into any specific category because I have many different traits from different personality types and don't just fit into one set group. Looking at the archetypes Carl Jung came up with, I can definitely see that I identify with several different archetypes. Starting with ego, I think I identify most with the orphan/regular gal. The orphan wants to belong, to fit in, and not lose themselves in trying so hard to fit

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    Carl Jung believed that you couldn’t become a good person until you realized your capacity for evil. I don’t mean acting it out on the world, but understand that it is possible, and to bring it under your control. This is because there’s a big difference between someone who is ‘naive’ and a ‘good person’, and someone genuine. They’re a good person because they can’t not be, they’re like a pet cat, they don’t even have the capacity to be bad, there’s no morality in that. The morality comes when you’re

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    Final Paper - Jung Theories of Personality                               In this paper I will show some of Jung’s back ground, his theory, and speak of his contribution to the world of psychology.   His contribution was a great one, and it was said that many of his theories were more complicated than many of the other psychologists of his time. As I read about him, I began to appreciate his passion for this subject. There were a few reasons that I chose him. First, I think it’s            

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    Five are openness, conscientiousness, extrovericism, agreeableness, and neuroticism. Many people over the years study personality and began to get an in depth look at what makes each of us unique. One of many scientist to study personality was Carl Jung. One of Jung’s influencers was his mentor Sigmund Freud. Freud was known as the father of psychoanalysis and often explored the individual's life. This form of theory focused on the individual's childhood in order for Freud to understand their psychological

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    personality types and the Jungian Functions, little effort has been put into understanding them on a more basic and easily understood level. Carl J. Jung and the Personality Preferences Carl J. Jung (“Jung proposed and developed the concepts of the extraverted and the introverted personality, archetypes, and the collective unconscious.”) Carl Gustav Jung, a Swiss psychologist, is widely known for the archetypal personalities and ideas that the widely popular MBTI system was founded upon. However

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    The book of C.G Jung “The Undiscovered Self” was written during the cold war concerning communism. He saw during this time the trend toward collectivism as the utmost threat to the individual self. He expresses grief over the adoption of mass mindedness, and encourages its psychic depreciation. Witnessing the physical and psychological destruction of war, Jung provides the reader his analytic interpretation of the incomparable loss of self in the intrusion of secular religion and social collectivism

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    Although is far beyond being a hero at the beginning of the book, his lesson caused him to have a heroic heart. The archetypal hero that is theorized by Carl Jung means typical character, an action or a situation that seems to represent such universal patterns of human nature. In this case, Ged shows is the emphasis of caring through helping other but risking himself. In addition to this, Ged shows the heroic

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    Carl Jung’s theory of personality heavily emphasizes the importance of balance and equilibrium in all aspects of life. In the book, Answer to Job, Jung contemplates the fundamental problem of evil (Doran 2016, p. 178). Jung and Campbell (1971) in Answer to Job state that “The Book of Job serves as a paradigm for a certain experience of God which has special significance for us today” and go on to say that in this religious text, God possesses individual qualities that “fall apart into mutually

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    The Influences of C. G. Jung Carl Gustav Jung II was a psychiatrist whose theories of the mind challenged the existing dogma. His works with human cognition, the basic structure of the psyche, and association experiments are widely known today in the form of the concepts of the introvert and the extrovert, psychological archetypes, and basic tests of word association. Although many basic principles of psychology today are based upon his original discoveries and theories, they were not conceived

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