ANALYTICAL

PSYCHOLOGY –
CARL JUNG
AVANYA .O. JOSEPH
 CARL JUNG
Born : Karl Gustav Jung, 26 July 1875,
Kesswil,Thurgau, Switzerland.

Died : 6 June 1961 (aged 85) Kusnacht ,

Zurich, Switzerland.

Known Analytical psychology, Psychological types,

For : Collective unconscious, Complex, Archetype,
Anima and animus, Synchronicity, Shadow,
Extroversion and introversion.
 LIBIDO
The libido is identified as the totality of psychic
energy, not limited to sexual desire.

It is through psychic energy that psychological

activities such as perceiving , thinking, feeling, and
wishing are carried out.

Jung drew on ideas from physics to explain the

functioning of psychic energy.
He proposed three basic principles : opposites,
equivalance, and entropy

Opposition principle : jung’s idea that conflict

between opposing processes or tendencies is
necessary to generate psychic energy.

Every wish or feeling has its opposite. This

opposition or antithesis – this conflict between
polarities – is the primary motivator of behavior and
generator of energy.
 Equivalence principle –The continuing
redistribution of energy within a personality; if the
energy expended on certain conditions or activities
weakens or disappears, that energy is transferred
elsewhere in the personality.

Entropy principle – A tendency toward balance or

equilibrium within the personality; the ideal is an
equal distribution of psychic energy over all
structures of the personality. If two desires or beliefs
differ greatly in intensity or psychic value, energy will
flow from the more strongly held to the weaker.
 THE SYSTEMS OF PERSONALITY

In Jung’s view, the total personality or psyche, is

composed of several distinct systems or structures
that can influence one another.

The ego

The personal unconscious

The collective unconscious.
Ego : conscious level ; carries out daily activities , like
Freud’s conscious.

Personal unconscious : individuals thoughts,

memories, wishes, impulses; like Freud’s
preconscious + unconscious.

Collective unconscious : storehouse of memories

inherited from the common ancestors of the whole
human race; no counterpart in Freud’s theory
 THE ATTITUDES - EXTRAVERSION and
INTROVERSION
Extraverts direct their energy outwards – towards
other people – and gain energy from such
encounters.

Introverts, meanwhile, focus their energy inwards ,

towards more solitary , thoughtful activities.

According to Jung , everyone has the capacity for

both attitudes, but only one becomes dominant in
the personality.
 PSYCHOLOGICAL FUNCTIONS
As Jnung came to recognize that there were
different kinds of extraverts and introverts, he
proposed additional distinctions among people
based on what he called psychological functions.
These functions refer to different and opposing
ways of perceiving or apprehending both the
external real world and our subjective inner world.
Jung posited four functions of the psyche : sensing,
intuiting, thinking, and feeling.
Extroverted thinking : strict, very punctual, logical

Introverted thinking : interested in their own

thoughts, they don’t like to work in groups, very
creative when they are alone.

Extroverted sensing : extremely happy people,

pleasure seeking

Introverted sensing : do not expect anything from

the other people, do not depend on society.
Extroverted feeling : emotional, sensitive, sociable.

Introverted feeling : do not share their feelings ,

feeling deals with moral, feeling is more in depth
and complex.
extra

Extraverted intuiting : creative, motivated persons

Introverted intuiting : focused inwards, focused in

their unconscious mind rather than their daily life.
 COMPLEXES
As we file more and more experiences in our
personal unconscious, we begin to group them
into what Jung called complexes.

A complex is a core pattern of emotions,

memories, perceptions, and wishes in the personal
unconscious organized around a common theme,
such as power or status.
 ARCHETYPES
The ancient experiences contained in the collective
unconscious are manifested by recurring themes or
patterns Jung called archetypes.

Among the archetypes Jung proposed are the hero,

the mother, the child, God, death, power, and the
wise old man.
 ARCHETYPES
Persona : your public personality , aspects of
yourself that you reveal to others.
Shadow : prehistoric fear of wild animals,
represents animal side of human nature.
Anima : feminine archetype in men.
Animus : masculine archetype in women.
The self : the regulating center of the psyche and
facilitator of individuation.
 INDIVIDUATION
Jung defined individuation, the therapeutic goal of
analytical psychology belonging to the second half
of life, as the process by which a person becomes a
psychological individual, a separate indivisible unity
or whole, recognizing his innermost uniqueness,
and he identified this process with becoming one’s
own self or self realization, which he distinguished
from “ego- centeredness” and individualism.