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    Theorist Born in…. in Switzerland the son of a clergy man, Karl Gustav Jung was a lonely child. Much has been written about his childhood isolation and the impact this had on his later theories, of the significance of he placed on the imagination and a deep need to connect to the greater whole to break out of his isolation. Jung was a highly imaginative and empathetic boy who was interested in philosophy religion and read widely. In 1900 Jung joined the staff of the Burghölzli Asylum of the University

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    Carl Jung Early Life Carl Gustav Jung was born on July 26th 1875. He was born to Paul Achilles Jung and Emilie Preiswerk in the town of Kesswil, Switzerland. Jung was the 4th child born but the only child that survived. His family life was strained, and his mother spent the majority of her time locked in her room, where she said that spirits visited her at night. When the family moved to Laufen his mother was hospitalized due to an unknown physical ailment. Jung was sent to live with his mother

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    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 first

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    First Response Journal During the early twentieth century, a space never recognized before was discovered. Once this space was explored, it would be found to contain a vast number of valuables. So many, that they would be reaped for centuries to come. This discovery, changed the course of human history by changing how we view ourselves. However, this discovery was not made in the jungle by sweaty men in khaki, who hacked away vines with machete and muscle. Nor are was the cave made of limestone and

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    symbols that contain a large element of emotion. There are five main archetypes, and one of them is the persona. It the mask adopted by the person in response to the demands of social convention and tradition and it is the role that a person acted. Carl Jung considered many psychological types that emerge from the union of two (2) basic attitudes, the introversion and extraversion. Introversion is the orientation of the psychic energy inward while the extraversion is the tendency to direct the personality

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    paper, I will touch on a few of the great minds that attempted to encapsulate an understanding of traits and the environmental and biological associations attributed with those traits that purportedly make up our understanding of personality. Carl Jung is considered one of the pioneers of contemporary psychiatry and the study into the consciousness. Jung’s particular view of psychology from an analytical standpoint does not place him fully within the area of behavioral psychology or cognitive psychology

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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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    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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    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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    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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