Carl Jung and his theory of the Unconscious

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Carl Jung and his theory of the Unconscious
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Jungs Life

• Born in Switzerland in 1875 father a preacher
• Weak tormented youth
• Studied under Freud and was great friends
• Well versed in mythology religion and world
  cultures
• Lucid Dreamer who saw visions and images while
  awake at points though he was going insane.
• Later worked to catalog interpret and actualize
  them as works of visual art.

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Jungs Theory of the PsycheThree Part
PsycheThe Ego The Personal Unconscious and
the Collective Unconscious
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Jungs Theory of the PsycheThe Ego

• Jungs theory divides the psyche into three
  parts. The first is the ego which Jung
  identifies with the conscious mind.

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Jungs Theory of the PsycheThe Personal
Unconscious

• The personal unconscious is like most peoples
  understanding of the unconscious in that it
  includes both memories that are easily brought to
  mind and those that have been suppressed for some
  reason.

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Jungs Theory of the PsycheThe Collective
Unconscious

• You could call collective unconscious your
  psychic inheritance. It is the reservoir of our
  experiences as a species a kind of knowledge we
  are all born with. And yet we can never be
  directly conscious of it. It influences all of
  our experiences and behaviors most especially
  the emotional ones but we only know about it
  indirectly by looking at those influences.

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Jungs Theory of the PsycheContents of the
Collective Unconscious

• The contents of the collective unconscious are
  called archetypes. An archetype is an unlearned
  tendency to experience things in a certain way.

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Jungs Theory of the PsycheArchetypes The Self

• The Self is the archetype of wholeness. The Self
  can be understood as the central organizing
  principle of the psyche that fundamental and
  essential aspect of human personality which gives
  cohesion meaning direction and purpose to the
  whole psyche. It is who you believe you are.

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Jungs Theory of the PsycheArchetypes The
Shadow

• Sex and the life instincts in general are of
  course represented somewhere in Jungs system.
  They are a part of an archetype called the
  shadow. It derives from our pre-human animal
  past when our concerns were limited to survival
  and reproduction and when we werent
  self-conscious.

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Jungs Theory of the PsycheArchetypes The
Persona

• The persona represents your public image. The
  word is obviously related to the word person
  and personality and comes from a Latin word for
  mask. So the persona is the mask you put on
  before you show yourself to the outside world.
  Although it begins as an archetype by the time
  we are finished realizing it it is the part of
  us most distant from the collective unconscious.

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Jungs Theory of the PsycheThe Complex

• What happens when your entire self differs from
  your persona If you deny and suppress it the
  energy will go towards the development of a
  complex. A complex is a pattern of suppressed
  thoughts.

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Jungs Theory of the PsycheThe Complex takes
over

• Heres where the problem comes If you pretend
  all your life that you are only good that you
  dont even have the capacity to lie and cheat and
  steal and kill then all the times when you do
  good that other side of you goes into a complex
  around the shadow. That complex will begin to
  develop a life of its own and it will haunt you.
  
• If it goes on long enough the complex may take
  over may possess you and you might wind up
  with a multiple personality.

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Jungs Theory of the PsycheThe Complex takes
over

• In ordinary human experience the experience of
  being taken over by a complex is what we point to
  with language such as I was beside myself or I
  dont know what got into me. Jung wrote vividly
  of the autonomous quality of the complexes.