PSYC*4110 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Personal Unconscious, Extraversion And Introversion, Collective Unconscious
Document Summary
Broke from psychoanalysis to for analytic psychology. Jung believed there are certain archetypes universal images, themes, and ideas that originate from the collective unconscious. Included basic inspirations for dreams or myths concerning the mother, father, Trickster , or cultural memories of a great flood: many were visual, and particularly the mandala; for jung, represented wholeness and potential unity of the human psyche. Notion of balance remained a constant theme throughout jung"s theorizing: proposed a dimension of extroversion-introversion: person"s relative orientation toward the outer world or inner world. Ideal psychic condition was to achieve a balance between extroversion and introversion, or alternate between the two: top half, oriented toward the outer world, closely approximates the totality of. Dominated by an ego that attempts to resolve the conflicting demands arising from external reality and those from the body and the personal unconscious. Mask to denote the public face presented to the world: bottom half oriented to the inner world.
