Carl Jung Research Paper

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Carl Jung believed that people are very complex beings who have an assortment of contrasting qualities, such as extraversion and introversion, as well as masculinity vs femininity, and irrational and rational drives. Jung said that the dynamic ideologies that relate to physical energy also relate to psychic energy. These forces include causality and teleology as well as progression and regression. Jung causality and teleology is a middle point between the philosophical issues of causality and teleology. So this means, that people are motivated both by their past experiences and by their expectations of the future. Progression and Regression, to achieve self-realization, people must acclimate to both their external and internal worlds. Jung

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