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Betsy Gerth December 12, 2013 4B Carl Jung Carl Jung is the psychologist that I am going to talk about

in this essay below. He has many theories of personality, dreams, and many more. Jung and Freud agreed on many things at the beginning until Jung started to disagree and make his own theories. Throughout this essay I will talk about five wows that I thought were very fascinating and would like to share with others, those are the three parts of psyche, archetypes, synchronicity, introverts and extroverts, and functions to introverts and extroverts, then conclude with my thoughts and opinions on Carl Jungs theories. Carl Jung believes that we have three parts to our psyche, which are ego, unconscious, and collective unconscious. Wow #1 A conscious mind identifies the ego, Carl defines ego as understand a complex of ideas which constitutes the centre of my field of consciousness and appears to possess a high degree of continuity and identity. Personal unconscious is when a person can either be conscious or not. It can bring back memories easily that were suppressed. Jung does not include Freuds instincts to his personal unconsciousness. The last part is collective unconscious also known as psychic inheritance. This is our knowledge that we are born with that is not directly conscious. Jung believes that it influences behaviors and experiences. Dominant, imagos, mythological or primordial images are what Jung called archetypes. Wow #2 Archetypes that go along with the collective unconscious. Archetype is defined as unlearned tendency to experience things in a certain way. The four main archetypes that Jung believed are The Self, The Shadow, The Anima, and Animus, and The Persona. The Self represents unification of the unconsciousness and consciousness of an individual. Individuation is how the self is started. The Shadow is life instincts and

Betsy Gerth December 12, 2013 4B sex. The shadow exists in the unconscious mind and is composed of repressed ideas, weaknesses, desires, wildness, chaos and the unknown Jung belived that all people have the shadow it has many different forms that are either in your dreams or visions. The Anima or Animus is the feminine image in the male psyche and the male image in the female psyche. This is your very true self. The persona is our appearance to the world. Persona means mask in Latin so it is representing our masks we were everyday for different situations. Jung added synchronicity to mechanism and teleology. Wow #3 Synchronicity is the occurrence of two events that are not linked causally, nor linke teleological, yet are meaningfully related. This is when you dream of something and it is true. Many psychologists believe that it is a coincidence, but Jung believes that it is because we are connected through collective unconscious. Introversion and extroversion are what Jung developed for personality typology. Wow #4 Introversion are people who like thoughts, feeling, fantasies, dreams that are the internal. Extroversion is people who love doing things with people and activities. Like in class we talked about some people tend to be shyer when they are introversion, and extroversion are those who are more outgoing. Jung thinks four ways to become better with introverts and extroverts that are sensing, thinking, intuiting, and feeling. Wow #5! People that are good listeners tend to be a sensing person. Jung calls them irrational functions, that is non-judgmental person. Jung called the thinking, rational function which is decisions and judging, not taking in any information. Jung explains intuiting by like seeing around corners. These people are like sensing, but more into depth. The last is feeling which Jung calls rational,

Betsy Gerth December 12, 2013 4B obviously not in the usual sense of the word. They are like the thinkers, but more emotion is put into the situation. After reading about these theories above, it opened my mind to what I think. I agree with Jung on people that are introvert and extroverts, I think the four ways to deal with those sound logical, but I would first have to experiment with those functions. Im not sure how I feel about Jungs collective consciousness, it could work in some situations but not in others. I am also off and on with archetypes. I think that it makes sense; I just dont know if Jungs theory is the more correct one for me. Synchronicity is very fascinating, Ive experienced many times that I get a feeling or vision of someone and then my vision/dream happens. I think that is synchronicity is a great theory and name for those events that happen to us. Carl Jung has a very fascinating psychologist that helps open the mind and helps make your own theories.

Sources http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/jung.html http://www.answers.com/topic/ego-analytical-psychology http://psychology.about.com/od/personalitydevelopment/tp/archetypes.htm

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