PSYCH 1X03 Lecture Notes - Inferiority Complex, Psychodynamics, Raymond Cattell
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Theories branched from early work with freud. Libido is a general life-force, not purely sexual or aggressive. Began and freud"s student relationship broke down due to divergent ideas. Believed that motivation is provided by libido (like freud) Jung distinguished his analytic theory from freud"s psychodynamic theory. Though that the drives in libido are for more than sex and aggression (unlike freud) Libido is not sexual energy, but a general life-enhancing energy that can be directed towards meeting different needs at different times in our lives. Proposed different psychic structures for the mind. Believed ego is central to our conscious mind. Unconscious psyche is divided into a personal unconscious and a collective unconscious. Jung"s collective conscious in an ancient par of the human mind that forms the biological basis of human nature. Libido is contained in the collective unconscious in the form of basic human instincts called archetypes (shared by all human beings)
