ANALYTICAL

PSYCHOLOGY
CARL JUNG

BASIC NATURE OF HUMAN BEINGS

I.

INSTINCTS AND PSYCHIC ENERGY

Instincts - innate physiological urges; modes of action and reaction

Nutrition

Power

Sexuality

Activity

Becoming whole or ones true self

creativity

Libido and value

Complexes emotionally charged ideas

Word Association Test

Principle of Opposites

Compensation the unconscious emphasizing the other extreme

Principle of equivalence tendency for psychic energy withdrawn from one part of
personality to reappear somewhere else

Principle of entropy - tendency for psychic energy to flow from a more highly
valued to a less highly valued part of personality

Enantiodromia tendency of any characteristic to eventually return into its

opposite

Source: Ewen, R. (2010). An Introduction to Theories of Personality 7th edition. New York, NY: Psychology Press.

Transcendent function - process that joins various opposing forces into a coherent
middle ground, and furthers the course of individuation by providing personal lines of
development

Teleology purpose or goal

A man is only half understood when we know how everything in him came into being
Life does not have only a yesterday, nor is it explained b reducing today to yesterday. Life
has also a tomorrow, and today is understood only when we can add to our knowledge of
what was yesterday the beginnings of tomorrow.

-Jung

The Unconscious
Autonomous and speaks of its own accord
a dialogue with the unconscious
Are also wellsprings of creativity and sources of guidance

Source: Ewen, R. (2010). An Introduction to Theories of Personality 7th edition. New York, NY: Psychology Press.

STRUCTURE OF PERSONALITY
The Self
Individuation

Middle age

Consciousness

Ego (center of
awareness)

Persona (the mask)

Personal unconscious

Shadow
o Projected

Collective (transpersonal)
Unconscious

Archetypes (predisposition
to perceive the world in
certain ways)
Anima and animus
Wise old man
The mother

Individuation lifelong unfolding of a persons inherent and unique personality

The Self lies between consciousness and unconsciousness; new center of personality

Mandala

Progression and Regression

Character typology (functions and attitudes)

Function way of perceiving stimuli

Sensation establishing what is in the environment (nonrational)

Thinking interpreting and understanding what is perceived (rational)

Feeling evaluating how desirable or pleasant that which is perceived (rational)

Intuition forming hunches of conclusions without using any of the other functions
(nonrational)

Attitudes direction of libido movement

Extraversion outward flow of libido toward the external world

Introversion - inward flow of libido toward depths of the psyche

Source: Ewen, R. (2010). An Introduction to Theories of Personality 7th edition. New York, NY: Psychology Press.

sensation

thinking

feeling

intuition

extraversion
thinking
conscious

intuition

sensation
unconscious

introversion
feeling
Source: Ewen, R. (2010). An Introduction to Theories of Personality 7th edition. New York, NY: Psychology Press.

Function
Thinking

Attitude
extraversion

introversion

Tries to understand and interpret aspects of

external world.
Is logical, practical, objective (e.g., scientist,
public prosecutor)
extreme or neurotic- e.g., tyrannical or hostile
towards those who would threaten their
formula

Makes judgments that conform to external

standards (e.g., conservative, enjoys popular
trends)
extreme or neurotic e.g., seem hysterical,
fickle, moody or even to be suffering from
multiple personality

Interested in perceiving and experiencing the

external world (e.g., realistic, sensual,
pleasure-seeking)
extreme- e.g., crudely sensual, may exploit
situations or others in order to increase their
own personal pleasure

Seeks new possibilities in the external world

(easily bored, unable to persist in one activity)
Neurotic - e.g., , compulsively tied to people
(repressed)

Feeling

sensation

intuition

Tries to understand and interpret

own ideas (e.g., philosopher,
theorist)
contemplative, thinking for its own
sake, impractical
extreme or neurotic e.g., rigid,
withdrawn,
Makes judgments based on own
standards (e.g., nonconformist,
cold, reserved)
extreme or neurotic e.g., may
become domineering and vain
Interested in perceiving and
experiencing own inner self (e.g.,
modern artist, musician)
extreme (psychotic) cases e.g,
inability to distinguish illusion from
reality
Seeks new possibilities within own
inner self (e.g., may develop
brilliant new insights, self-styled
prophet)

Sources: Ewen, R. (2010). An Introduction to Theories of Personality 7th edition. New York, NY: Psychology Press.
http://www.transpersonalscience.org/types.aspx

For your further reading and possible test-taking

Jungian Character Typology
http://www.transpersonalscience.org/types.aspx

Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Myers and McCaulley, 1985)

Watchword Jungian Personality Test

http://www.transpersonalscience.org/wtitle.aspx

APPLICATIONS

Dream interpretation

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Wish-fulfillment
Expression of fear
Mirror actual situation in life
Anticipate the future
Propose solutions
Telepathy
No latent content
Dream series

Psychopathology
Well-adjusted adult personality:

Individuated

Favored attitude and function are dominant and in harmony with the opposites

Maladjustment and psychosis: one-sided personality

Causes of neurosis

Blocked expression of dominant attitude and function by external world

Overemphasizing inherent function and attitude

Psychotherapy
Bring conscious and unconscious opposites into harmonious unity

Therapeutic procedures:

Painting, modeling with clay, singing, acting

4 phases: catharsis, examining the shadow and abandoning unrealistic and immature
fantasies, education, transformation