Jung's_Theory

Marilyn Faaulks Psychology 440 Revised Rough Draft 2nd Jung’s theory is based on the pysche (commonly called the ego) and operates by the principle of opposites, the personal and collective, and the unconscious and conscious. We use our primoridal past, something we inherit from our ancestors, to make sense of our future. Where Freud used the word libido, he was speaking more about the sexual driver, on the contrary, Jung uses the word to mean an energy that moves a person forward. The ego for Freud is teh executor of the personality, whereas, for Jung, the ego is one’s conscious perception of self. Our personal unconscious is where our perceptions, thoughts, feelings, and memories have been surpressed and can be esaily retrieved. All of our experiences in our life histories are stored in our personal unconscious. Our experiences, according to Jung, are grouped together in what he calls. Complexes are ideas and attitutudes that agglutinate together thru feelings. There are four types of complexes: The Ego- which is in our personal conscious, this is where we accept things as who we are, typically good things. The Shadow-this is the opposite of the Ego, things we do not accept as us, which are typically bad. the Shadow is not as well developed as the Ego. The Persona-This is a Greek word which means "maks", the facade we wear for society, and is also given by and used by society. Archetypes-specific meanings we ues to make sense of the world, and are connnected to our primoridal past. Jung's theory was based on the ego, which is one's conscious mind, the part of the psyche that selects perception, thoughs, feelings, and memories that may enter consciousness. I consider myself a smart, intelligent, hard-working, and friendly person. Forty some years ago, I had a child when I was a drug addict and prostitute. He was taken away from me. As I look back over my life, I can say today, that he was in a better place, with a family that could care for him. Sometime after that, I met a wonderful man. I got my life together, go to a real job, started college, and now I will be soon getting my Bachelors of Liberal Studies Degree. I decided to take off my persona that I was wearing for society, and let my final cause, my archetypes, help me to organize my life. Of all the theories we studied in class, I chose Jung to analyze my own personality. According to Jun's theory, I am an extraverted, sensing, feeling,a nd perceiving person. My primary mode of living is focused externally, where I take things in via my five senses in a concrete fasion. My secondary mode is internal, where I deal with things according to how I feel about this, or how they fit with my personal value system. I live in a world of people responsibilites. I love perople and new experiences. I am lively and fun, and enjoy being the center of attention. I live in the here-and-now and relish excitement and drama in my life. I have very strong inter-personal skills, and Ifind myself in the role of peacemaker. I make decision using my personal values, an am very obervant about other people, and can sense what is wrong with someone before others might, and I respon warmly with a solution to a practical need. I might not be the best advice-giver in the world, but I am great at giveing practical care. i am a spontaneous and and optimistic individual; I love to have fun. The entire world to me is a stage. I love to perform for people. I am constantly putting on a show for my friends and family to entertain them and make them happy. I enjoy stimulating other people's senses. I would love for life to be a continuous party, in which I play the role of the fun-loving host. I love everybody, and feel that everybody loves me. My greates gift is acceptance of everyone. I am upbeat, enthusiastic, and genuinely like almost everybody. I am generous with my friends, and tereat everyone as a friend. However, once I crossed by a friend, I can make a strong and stubborn judgment against the person who crossed me. I am capable of deep dislike when someone crosses me. When I am under a great deal of stress, I tend to ge overwhelmed with negative thoughs and possibliites. Being an optimistic individual living in a world of possibilities, negative possibilites do not sit well with me. I am very practical; however, I hate structure and routine. I prefer going with the flow, trusting in my ability to improvise in any situation presented to me. I learn best with hands-on experience, rather than by studying a bok. I am a great team player. I do not like to create problems of fuss; therefore, I create the most fun environment possible for getting the task done. I feel that I will do best in careers in which I am able to use my excellent people skills, along with m abilities to shape ideas into a more structured format. I feel that I have a tremendous love for life, and definitely know how to have fun. I enjoy being with others that like to have fun because I am alot of fun to be with. I tend to be flexible, adaptable, and genuinely interested in people, and usually kind-hearted. The central archetype in Jung’s understanding is that of the self. Jung’s use of the term self differed from the usual use of the term. The self represents the striving for unity of all parts of the personality. It is the organizing principle of the psyche that draws unto itself and harmonizes all the archetypes and their expressions. Depending on the occasion and our personal needs, the self allows us to be socially acceptable at work, our persona, outrageous at a Halloween party, our shadow, and emotional at a concert, our shadow. The self, rather that the ego, is the true midpoint of my personality. The self lies on the boundary between conscious and unconscious, reason and unreason. The development of the self is life’s goal, but the self archtype cannot begin to emerge until the other personality stystem have been fully develped. Jung uses the term psych to refer to all psychological processes, emphasizing that it embraces both conscious and unconscious process. Jung used libido in a more generalized fasion as an undifferentiated energy that moves the person forward. The ego is one’s conscious perception of self. There are two basic attitueds of an individual, they are introversion and extraversion and four functions; sensation, thinking, feeling, and intution. In each person, one of the atitudes and one of the functions is dominant, and its opposite is weaker. The other two functions play an auxiliary role. The personal unconscious includes experiences of an individual’s history that have been repressed or forgotten. I feel that my unconscious is bringing back memories of my past that have been repressed. This course has brought out alot in me that I did not realize about myself. Our unconscious is organized into complexes. In this complex formation, ideally, things should be balanced, but when it isn’t the opposite complex gets stronger. With this strenght the complex pulls more ideas to it, and eventually it will take over. The self is the ideal personality, a balanced unified personality, however, in some individual it is very rare. Jung is the most dialectic out of all the theories we studied. His final cause was the the self. Archetypes helps us to organize our life. He also had a formal cause, which is the psyche, because of its relationship between the personal and collective conscious and unconscious. An example would be the past, present and future in nonlinear time, in other words, synchronicity. Synchronicity is aphenomenon in which evenst are related to one another through simultaniely and meaning. In synchronicity, two events occur either at the same time or coles in time, and , though they happen independently, they seem inextricably linked. Jung learned through relationships, with the past and within the psyche teaches uas and give meaning. We are actually in a relationship with our ancestors. Our actions bring things together. The foundation of Jung’s Theory was relationships. Jung sought to reconcile unbalanced aspects of the presonality. It is a dialectical procedure and intially entails confession (Engler, 2009 p. 90).