Dynamics of

Personality
Jung’s believed that the
dynamic principles that
apply to physical energy
also apply to psychic
energy. This forces include
causality, and teleology,
as well as progression
and regression.
 Causality and Teleology

• Jung’s accepted a middle position between the

philosophical issues of causality and teleology. In other
words, humans are motivated both by their past
experience and by their expectations of the future.

Causality - holds that present

events have their origin in
previous experience.
Teleology - holds that
present events are
motivated by goals and
aspirations for the future
that direct a person's
destiny.
 Progression and Regression

• To achieve self realization, people must

adapt not only to their outside but to
their inner world as well.

Progression- adaptation to
the outside world which
involve the forward flow of
psychic energy.
Regression- adaptation
to the inner world which
relies on a backward
flow of psychic energy.
 Psychological
Types
Attitudes and Function
• The attitudes and functions operate as pairs of opposite
and compensatory tendencies. According to Jung,
whichever attitude or function dominates consciousness,
its opposite will tend to be repressed and to characterise
the compensatory activity of the unconscious. These
unconscious tendencies can often be recognised through
their expressions in dreams, or when the person is under
stress, or intoxicated.
Attitudes
> as a predisposition to act or react in
a characteristic direction. He insisted
that each person has both an
introverted and extroverted attitude,
although one may be conscious
while the other is unconscious.
Introversion
characterized by an
outgoing and relatively
confident approach to life.

Extroversion
characterized by a retiring
and reflective approach to
life.
Function
The four basic functions were
thinking, feeling, intuition, and
sensation. The concept of
introversion and extraversion were
also conceived by Jung, and were
used in conjunction with the
four functions.
Sensing- tells people that
something exist

Thinking- enables them

to recognize it's meaning

Feeling- tell them it's

value or worth

Intuition- allows them to

know about it without
knowing how they know
 
Rational Functions-
modes of making
judgment or evaluation of
events in the world.
(Thinking and Feeling)

Irrational Functions-
modes of apprehending
the world without
evaluating.
(sensing and intuition)
 Self-Realization (psychic birth)

self- realization or individuation, involves a

psychological rebirth and an integration of
various parts of the psyche into a unified or
whole individual. Self realization represents
the highest level of human development.

a process of coming to "self-hood"

Development of
Personality
Stages of Development

• Jung grouped the stages of life into

four general periods
• *Childhood
• *youth
• *middle life
• *old age
Childhood Sub-stages or Phases

• 1. Anarchic
• 2. Monarchic
• 3. Dualistic
 Youth
• - period of puberty until middle life
• - period of increased activity, maturing
sexuality, growing consciousness and
recognition that the problem free era of
childhood is gone forever.
 Middle Life

- The realization that you will not live forever creates tension. If
you desperately try to cling to youth, you will fail in the process
of self-realization. Jung believed that in midlife, one confronts
one's shadow. Religiosity may increase during thisperiod,
according to Jung.
• - approximately 35or 40 y/o
• - increasing anxieties and is also a period of tremendous
potential.
 Old Age

- during 60 years