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Jung
Jung's personality theories
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Undergraduate 2
05/06/2014

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Personal Unconcious
Definition
—Embraces all repressed, forgotten, or subliminally perceived experiences
—Unique to the individual
—Some are easily recalled, some remembered with difficulty, and some beyond the reach of consciousness
—Complexes emotionally toned collection of associated ideas (i.e. the word “mother” sparks an emotional response)

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Collective Unconcious
Definition
—Has its roots in the ancestral past of the entire species
—Is active & influences thoughts, emotions, and actions
—Responsible for myths, legends, and religious beliefs

—Similar to the phylogenetic endowment but Freud looked first to the personal unconscious and then to the P.E.; Jung placed emphasis on the Collective Unconscious and used personal experiences to round out the total personality.  Also Jung explained multiple archetypes.
Term
Four Functions
Definition

Can be introverted or extroverted

—Sensing: tells people that something exists
—Thinking: enables them to recognize its meaning
—Feeling: tells them its value or worth

—Intuition: allows them to know about it without knowing how they know
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Persona
Definition
The side of personality that people show to the world
¢This is the role that society dictates to each of us (can be based on career, gender, etc.)
i.e. women are sensitive, surgeons are smart

¢If we identify too closely with our persona we remain unconscious of our individuality and are blocked from attaining self-realization due to losing touch with our inner self and remaining dependent on societal expectations
Term
Shadow
Definition
Archetype of darkness and repression that represents those qualities we do not wish to acknowledge but attempt to hide from ourselves and others
¢Jung believed to be whole we must understand this side of ourselves (this quest is our first test of courage)
¢Easy to project the dark side of personality onto others and to see the evil or ugliness in them that we refuse to see in ourselves

¢People who refuse to acknowledge this side often run into “bad luck” and experience defeat and discouragement
Term
Anima
Definition
  • Feminine side of a man
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Animus
Definition
  • Masculine side of a woman
Term
Great Mother
Definition
  • Can nuture or destroy
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Old Man
Definition
  • Wise; father figure
Term
Hero
Definition
  • Heroic but vulnerable
  • Can fail but is strong and powerful
Term
Thinking
Definition
Extroverted thinking people rely heavily on concrete thoughts, but they may also use abstract ideas if theses ideas have been transmitted to them from the outside
¢Examples: mathematicians, engineers, accountants
Introverted thinking people react to external stimuli but their interpretation is more colored by internal meaning; react to external world in creative and subjective manner

¢Examples: philosophers, inventors
Term
Feeling
Definition
—Extraverted feeling people use objective data to make evals.  Likely to be at ease in social situations, knowing what to say and how to say it.  Usually well-liked because of their sociability but may appear artificial.
¢Ex. Business people, politicians
—Introverted feeling people base their value judgments primarily on subjective perceptions.  They ignore traditional opinions and beliefs and can cause people around them to feel uncomfortable

¢Ex. Movie critics, art appraisers, meeeee
Term
Sensing
Definition
—Extraverted sensing people perceive external stimuli similar to the way these stimuli exist in reality
¢Ex. Proofreader, house painter, wine taster
—Introverted sensing people are influenced by their subjective sensations of sight, sound, taste, touch, and so forth.  Give a subjective meaning to objective phenomena and can communicate the meaning to others

¢Ex. Portrait artists, classical musicians, me!
Term
Intuiting
Definition
—Extraverted intuitive people are oriented toward facts of the external world and suppress many of their sensations and are guided by hunches, guesses, etc. 
¢Ex. Some inventors
—Introverted intuitive people are guided by unconscious perceptions of facts that are subjective and bear little resemblance to external stimuli. 

¢Ex. Prophets, mystics
Term
Middle Life
Definition
¢Begins approximately around age 35 or 40
¢Increasing anxieties but also a lot of potential
¢If they retain social and moral values of early life, they become rigid and obsessive in trying to hold on to their physical attractiveness and agility
¢Capable of giving up the extraverted goals of youth and moving in the introverted direction of expanded consciousness

¢Maturity of religious beliefs; belief in some sort of afterlife
Term
Self
Definition
  • All the archetypes combined into one person
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