PSYC 370 Chapter Notes -Personal Unconscious, Personal Identity, Comparative Religion
Document Summary
Explored his own unconscious by immersing himself in understanding his dreams and fantasy: 1919 emerge with his model of analytic psychology. Emphases: teleology, events of past are insufficient to explain present behavior, personality has basis in ongoing aim reach toward ultimate self-realization, determinism purpose and future orientation give hope and meaning to life, collective unconscious. Personal identity and experience of continuity of time: self center of whole personality midpoint between conscious and unconscious. Go recalls forgotten or repressed experience: mostly wishes, idea, feelings and experience that were once conscious but have been denied awareness or forgotten. Imaginative source can shape creative ideas: complexes emotionally significant and often disturbing constellations of ideas. Dominate action and thoughts influence is unrecognized. Potent influence on behavior, thinking, feeling with central theme. Can be strong to control and seriously affect life abnormal pursuit of idea. Nuclear idea that draws related ideas to it stronger this core more extensive and dominating complex: collective unconscious.
