Jungs Analytic Psychology

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Jungs Analytic Psychology

• Mind or psyche is divided into 3 parts
• Conscious ego-sense of self
• Self comes from individuation
• Personal Unconscious-thoughts feeling not part
  of conscious awareness-past and future
  material-compensates or balances conscious
  attitude and ideas
• Collective unconscious

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Collective Unconscious

• Certain psychic elements passed from generation
  to generation through unconscious channel
• Universal archetypes-emotional symbols-predispose
  us to react in predictable ways to common
  recurring stimuli.
• Transpersonal
• Derived from our ancestors to continually
  repeating events

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Archetypes

• Animus-Male/woman, Anima-Female/man
• Mother- generativity, fertility
• Hero- king Savior Champion
• Demon-cruel evil
• Trickster-Magician, wizard, sorcerer-entertainer
• Persona-acceptable sidepeople pleasing
• Shadow-dark side evil twin acting out

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The Self

• the central archetype, the archetype of order,
  organization, and unification
• it attracts harmonizes all of the archetypes
• and their manifestations in complexes
  consciousness
• it unites the personality, giving it a sense of
  oneness
• commonly projected onto figures or institutions
• perceived as possessing preeminent power
• embodied in the symbol of the mandala
• individuation

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Madala of the Gospel According to St. John
Ansgar Holmberg 2003
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Persona

• "To prepare a face to meet the faces that you
  meet" Eliot, "Prufrock"
• the public mask, the "conformity" archetype (a
  person may have more than one)
• benefits provides social cohesion
• yet can be removed (cf. Kafka)
• dangers ego can identify solely w/ the persona's
  role, leaving
• the other aspects of its personality
  underdeveloped
• parents sometimes project personae on their
  children

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The Shadow

• "There was was a man, Harry, called the
  Steppenwolf.
• He went on two legs, wore clothes, and was a
  human
• being, but nevertheless he was a wolf of the
  steppes.
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  Hesse Steppenwolf
• the animalistic, instinctual archetype
• powerful potentially dangerous often
• projected on others plays an important role in
  same sex relationships.
• its taming is accomplished via the persona
• benefits feeds creativity, spontaneity
  (instinctual wisdom)
• dangers if not controlled, destructive but if
  overly suppressed, life tends to become shallow
  spiritless. If strigently suppressed, "the
  animal becomes more beastlike

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The Trickster

• "Bred en bawn in a brier-patch, Brer Fox."
• Brer Rabbit, from Chandler, Uncle Remus
• always male, at once wise foolish
• promiscuous amoral,
• emphasizes lower bodily functions
• often takes the form of an animal
• yet profoundly inventive, creative
• "The trickster, then, speaks to our animal
  nature, to our physical as opposed to our
  spiritual side, and reflects what Jung calls 'an
  earlier rudimentary stage of consciousness.'"
  D.A. Leeming The World of Myth

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Doppelganger

• Not a thread in all his raiment - not a line in
  all the marked and singular lineaments of his
  face which was not, even in the most absolute
  identity, mine own!
• Poe, "William Wilson"
• a ghostly double of a living person, especially
  one that
• haunts its own fleshly
• counterpart
• may function as a Freudian superego

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Magritte
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• anima/animus
• With tears in my eyes I stared at my picture and
  read within myself. Then I lowered my eyes
  beneath painting of the bird in the open door
  stood a tall woman in a dark dress. It was she.
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  Hesse, Demian
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• the female w/in male/the male w/in the female
• first projected on opposite sexed parent parent
  must be symbollically slain to release lover
• (as symbolized by dragonslaying)
• can be mediator between ego self
• danger can be tainted w/ shadow
• lead to destruction