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Psych 370 Personality Exam 2

Book Notes

Chapter 4:

CARL JUNG

-Neo-Analytic Approach: The approach to personality psychology that is concerned with the individual’s sense of self (ego) as the core of personality.

-Carl Jung’s analytic psychology was less sexually focuses, more historically oriented, and more attuned to the spiritual and supernatural then Freud’s psychoanalytic psychology. Jung was very open to alternative ideas. When he conducted a psychoanalysis of Christiana Morgan, an upper-class “free spirit” (who served as a kind of erotic muse), he was so taken that he came to view her as the quintessential “anima” (the feminine spirit), and he encouraged her to engage in a scandalous affair with Harvard personologist Henry Murray (with whom she helped develop the TAT).

-Jung’s Analytic Psychology

-According to the Jungian theory, the mind or psyche is divided into 3 parts: the conscious ego, the personal unconscious, and the collective unconscious.

-Psyche: The essence of the human mind or spirit or soul; Carl Jung’s theory, personality as the dynamic sum of it’s parts.

-Ego: In psychoanalytic theory, the personality structure that develops to deal with the real world; in neo-analytic theory, this term refers to the individuality of a person that is the central core of personality; and specifically for Carl Jung, it is the aspect of personality that is conscious and embodies the sense of self.

-Personal Unconscious: According to Carl Jung, the component of the mind that contains thoughts and feelings that are not currently part of conscious awareness.

-The Collective Unconscious: According to Carl Jung, the component of the mind that contains a deeper level of unconscious made up of archetypes that are common across all people.

-Archetypes: In Carl Jung’s neo-analytic theory, emotional symbols that are common to all people and have been formed since the beginning of time.

-The two important archetypes are the animus (the male...