The Art of C. G. Jung

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a b Allison, Scott T.; Goethals, George R. (2011). Heroes: What They Do and Why We Need Them. Oxford University Press. pp.3–17, 199–200. ISBN 9780199739745. Thinking’ individuals make decisions based on logic and objective considerations, while ‘Feeling’ individuals make decisions based on subjective and personal values. Jung’s theory of recurring cultural archetypes, buried in the mind and shared by humans regardless of history or geography, is well known. What only a few had been permitted to see was how he had recorded his personal journey into visions, dreams and hallucinations in this book, which he began in 1913 at the age of 38, in what some have speculated was a midlife psychosis. Soul man … Schlinger, Henry D. Jr; Poling, Alan (2013). Introduction to Scientific Psychology. New York: Springer Science & Business Media. p.293. ISBN 978-1-4899-1895-6.

a b Weiner, Michael O.; Gallo-Silver, Les Paul (2018). The Complete Father: Essential Concepts and Archetypes. Jefferson, NC: McFarland. p.5. ISBN 978-1-4766-6830-7. The mother represents the nurturing and protective aspect of the female figure. It is often associated with the qualities of love, compassion, and caring. The mother archetype can manifest itself in a variety of forms, such as a biological mother, a maternal figure in a person's life, or even a motherly aspect within one's own personality. This includes embracing the paradoxes and complexities of human nature and developing an understanding and acceptance of oneself, warts and all. He also identified four basic functions (thinking, feeling, sensing, and intuiting) which in a cross-classification yield eight pure personality types.The Persona, as explained by Carl Jung, is the aspect of our personality that we present to the world as a means of social adaptation and personal convenience. Instead, he saw them as parts of a holistic psychological spectrum present in every individual, opposing Freud’s predominantly masculine-centric theory. It is the present and the future, which in his view was the key to both the analysis of neurosis and its treatment. Personal Unconscious Another criticism of archetypes is that seeing myths as universals tends to abstract them from the history of their actual creation, and their cultural context. [75] Some modern critics state that archetypes reduce cultural expressions to generic decontextualized concepts, stripped bare of their unique cultural context, reducing a complex reality into something "simple and easy to grasp". [75] Other critics respond that archetypes do nothing more than to solidify the cultural prejudices of the myths interpreter – namely modern Westerners. Modern scholarship with its emphasis on power and politics have seen archetypes as a colonial device to level the specifics of individual cultures and their stories in the service of grand abstraction. [76] This is demonstrated in the conceptualization of the "Other", which can only be represented by limited ego fiction despite its "fundamental unfathomability". [77] The form of the world into which [a person] is born is already inborn in him, as a virtual image’ (Jung, 1953, p. 188).

This is symbolized in the idea: “where there is light, there must also be shadow”. Overemphasis on the Persona, while neglecting the Shadow, can result in a superficial personality, preoccupied with others’ perceptions.Jung proposed that human responses to archetypes are similar to instinctual responses in animals. One criticism of Jung is that there is no evidence that archetypes are biologically based or similar to animal instincts (Roesler, 2012). a b Fordham, Michael Explorations Into the Self (Library of Analytical Psychology) Karnac Books, 1985. In his book, Jung and the Post-Jungians, Andrew Samuels points out some important developments that relate to the concept of Jungian archetypes. Claude Lévi-Strauss was an advocate of structuralism in anthropology and, similar to Jung, was interested in better understanding the nature of collective phenomena. [5] As he worked to understand the structure and meaning of myth, Levi-Strauss came to the conclusion that present phenomena are transformations of earlier structures or infrastructures, going so far as to state that "the structure of primitive thoughts is present in our minds". [52] Jung believed that the form of the archetype was similar to the axial system of a crystal, which determines the structure of the crystal without having a physical existence of its own. The archetype is empty and purely formal, and the specific way in which it is expressed depends on the circumstances in which it is activated. The representations of the archetype are not inherited, only the forms, and they correspond to the instincts. The existence of the instincts and the archetypes cannot be proven unless they manifest themselves concretely. [10]

The Anima and Animus exist in the unconscious as counterbalances to a person’s conscious sexual identity, serving to complement their experience and understanding of their own gender. a b Higgins, Gareth (2013). Cinematic States: Stories We Tell, the American Dreamlife, and How to Understand Everything*. Conundrum Press. ISBN 9781938633348. Shamdasani, Sonu; Sonu, Shamdasani (2003). Jung and the Making of Modern Psychology: The Dream of a Science. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. p.309. ISBN 0-521-53909-9.

Because Jung's viewpoint was essentially subjectivist, he displayed a somewhat Neo-Kantian perspective of a skepticism for knowing things in themselves and a preference of inner experience over empirical data. This skepticism opened Jung up to the charge of countering materialism with another kind of reductionism, one that reduces everything to subjective psychological explanation and woolly quasi-mystical assertions. [79]

Stevens, Anthony (2006), "Chapter 3", in Papadopoulos, Renos (ed.), The Handbook of Jungian Psychology The personal unconscious, a concept developed by Carl Jung, refers to all the information and experiences of an individual’s lifetime that have been forgotten or repressed but continue to influence their behavior and attitudes on an unconscious level. The Red Book has been described as Jung’s most important work, although he fretted that publication would bring him ridicule. At its core, it marked his move away from science to the realms of myth, magic and the soul.Jung’s (1947, 1948) ideas have not been as popular as Freud’s. This might be because he did not write for the layman and as such his ideas were not a greatly disseminated as Freud’s. It may also be because his ideas were a little more mystical and obscure, and less clearly explained. A study published in the journal Psychological Perspective in 2017 examined the ways in which Jungian representations are expressed in human experiences. The article summarized the findings of the study, Carl Jung’s psychological types theory suggests that people experience the world using four principal psychological functions – sensation, intuition, feeling, and thinking – and that one of these four functions is dominant for a person most of the time. a b c Aziz, Robert (1990). C. G. Jung's Psychology of Religion and Synchronicity. Albany, NY: SUNY Press. p.54. ISBN 0-7914-0166-9.