Final Project

Chris Nielson: PSY-3460

Prof. John
Carl Jung

• Using the theories of Carl Jung, a psychologist

who I admire greatly and see as being worthy
of more respect than I think he often is given.
• He was a very abstract theorist, but I think
that was due more to his attempt at grasping
the very core of our being than anything else.
Conscious and the
Persona
• Conscious: The Persona is the piece of
ourselves we present to others and is most
concerned with the present much like how the
Conscious is laser focused on our present being
at any time. The Consciousness primary
function is to focus on individual pieces of our
lives and minds on a one-by-one basis.
• Due to our society and its forces, especially in
Western Culture, this means that our conscious
usually spends a lot of its time thinking about
our persona and therefore how we present
ourselves.
• Thus, we come to a full circle and see how the
Persona and Conscious are linked.
Personal Unconscious
and the Shadow
• Personal Unconscious: Since the Personal
Unconsciousness is all of the different
parts of the mind that are not being
thought about presently, that we don’t
want to think about, as well as ideas that
we haven’t thought about for a long time,
it makes good sense to set the Shadow in
this group.
• What with the Shadow being all of our
repressed emotions, desires, and
intentions, I would like to use our little
demon friend here as an example of the
Shadow.
Collective Unconscious
and Anima/Animus
• Collective Unconscious: The Unfinished Minis
will be a good example of the collective
unconscious because they are very basic and
uncolored.
• The Collective Unconscious is also a good
example of how as psycho-theory gets closer
and closer to the bottom or “heart” of
consciousness, the less is understood and
because of how little many of us really search
those depths its not crazy to see why.
• To not understand oneself is to not understand
humanity. To not understand humanity means a
grave failure for us indeed.