PSYC 3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 74: Personal Unconscious, Carl Jung, Libido
9 May 2018
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Lecture 74
o Carl Jung Determinist
• Jung was famous for administering Galton’s word association test
to psychotics in hopes of discovering the nature of their
unconscious thought processes.
• The major source of difficulty between Jung and Freud was their
differing views of libido.
o Freud saw the libido as sexual energy; Jung saw the libidinal
energy as a creative life force that could be applied to the
individual’s continuous psychological growth.
▪ Jung determined that libidinal energy is used in a wide
range of human endeavors beyond those of a sexual
nature, and it can be applied to the satisfaction of both
biological and philosophical or spiritual needs.
• Ego
o Jung’s conception of the ego was similar to Freud’s.
o The ego is the mechanism by which we interact with the
physical world.
o The ego is everything of which we are conscious and is
concerned with thinking, problem solving, remembering, and
perceiving.
• According to Jung, Personal Unconscious consists of experiences
that had either been repressed or simply forgotten.
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