PSYC 31a Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Collective Unconscious, Psychological Types, Eugen Bleuler
2 Feb 2017
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Importance of not allowing conventional religion to cut oneself off from direct experience of god. Apparent heart attack led to near death experience move from personal to deeply affirmative attitude toward his own destiny. Freud - neurosis and its etiology, and insistence that sexual trauma as the root of repression. Jung - psychotic trends (archaic elements) in otherwise normal people, and insistence on mythology, spiritual, and occult phenomena. Break precipitated a powerful confrontation with the unconscious. Psychic energy - life process energy - libido or appetite. For every action there is an equal and opposite reaction. Energy that propels personality and behavior derived from interplay between opposite forces within the psyche. Principle of equivalence (1st law of thermodynamics) Energy expended in one part of psyche compensated for by an equal amount of energy in the same or different form in another part of psyche.
