Carl Jung - Psychoanalytic Theory

Carl Jung

Psychoanalytic Theory (Object Relations):

Mental Illness & health determined by our relationships w/objects in our environment, both human and non-human.

Personality largely unconscious.

Psyche Divided into 3 Parts:

1. Ego = conscious mind

2. Personal Unconscious = anything not presently conscious but could be (includes memories, not instincts)

3. Collective Unconscious = reservoir of experiences as a species; knowledge we're born with.

Archetypes: content of collective unconscious; expressed through dreams, fantasies, delusions.

1. Shadow - Hidden or unconscious aspects of oneself, both good and bad, which the ego has either repressed or never recognized.

2. Anima - The inner feminine side of a man.

3. Animus - the archetype of reason and spirit in women. This is the male aspect of the female psyche, as the anima is the female aspect of male psyche.

4. Persona - the public image of someone.

***Myers-Briggs personality test based on Jung's theory.

4 Scales:

1. Extroversion - Introversion

2. Sensing - Intuiting

3. Thinking - Feeling

4. Judging - Perceiving