PSYC 3140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 76: Psychosexual Development, Occult, Spiritualism
9 May 2018
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Lecture 76
• Criticisms of Jung
o Jung’s theory was criticized for embracing occultism,
spiritualism, mysticism, and religion.
o Jung was unscientific or even antiscientific because he used
such things as the symbols found in art religion, and human
fantasy to develop and verify his theory.
o The concept of the archetype, which is central to Jung’s
theory, has been criticized for being metaphysical and
unverifiable.
o Some have referred to Jung’s theory in general as unclear,
incomprehensible, inconsistent, and, in places, contradictory.
o Finally, Jung has been criticized for employing the
Lamarckian notion of the inheritance
o of acquired characteristics.
• Contributions of Jung
o Jung’s notions of introversion and extroversion have
stimulated much research and are part of several popular
personality tests—for example, the MMPI Minnesota
Multiphasic Personality Inventory and the Myers–Briggs
Type Indicator.
o Also, Jung’s concepts of introversion and extroversion were
major components of Hans J. Eysenck’s influential theory of
personality.
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