Carl Jung: Analytical Psychology

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Analytical Psychology

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Jung's theory of Personality.

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libido

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To Jung, a broader and more generalized form of psychic energy.

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Psyche

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Jung's term for personality.

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Opposition Principle

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Jung's idea that conflict between opposing processes or tendencies is necessary to generate psychic energy.

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Equivalence Principle

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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.

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Entropy Principle

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A tendency toward balance or equilibrium within the personality; the ideal is an equal distribution of psychic energy over all structures of the personality.

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Ego

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To Jung, the conscious aspect of personality. The center of consciousness, the part of the psyche concerned with perceiving, thinking, feeling, and remembering.

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Extraversion

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An attitude of the psyche characterized by an orientation toward the external world and other people.

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Introversion

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An attitude of the psyche characterized by an orientation toward one's own thoughts and feelings.

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Psychological Types

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To Jung, eight personality types based on interactions of the attitudes (introversion and extraversion) and the functions (thinking, feeling, sensing, and intuiting).

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Extraverted Thinking

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Logical, objective, dogmatic

(One of Jung's psychological types)

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Extraverted Feeling

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Emotional, sensitive, sociable; more typical of women than men

(One of Jung's psychological types)

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Extraverted Sensing

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Outgoing, pleasure-seeking, adaptable

(One of Jung's psychological types)

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Extraverted Intuiting

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Creative, able to motivate others and to seize opportunities

(One of Jung's psychological types)

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Introverted Thinking

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More interested in ideas than in people

(One of Jung's psychological types)

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Introverted Feeling

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Reserved, undemonstrative, yet capable of deep emotion

(One of Jung's psychological types)

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Introverted Sensing

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Outwardly detached, expressing themselves in aesthetic pursuits

(One of Jung's psychological types)

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Introverted Intuiting

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Concerned with the unconscious more than everyday reality

(One of Jung's psychological types)

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Personal Unconscious

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The reservoir of material that was once conscious but has been forgotten or suppressed.

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Complex

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To Jung, a core or pattern of emotions, memories, perceptions, and wishes in the personal unconscious organized around a common theme, such as power or status.

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Collective Unconscious

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The deepest level of the psyche containing the accumulation of inherited experiences of human and pre-human species.

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Archetypes

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Images of universal experiences contained in the collective unconscious.

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Persona Archetype

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The public face or role a person presents to others.

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Anima Archetype

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Feminine aspects of the male psyche.

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Animus Archetype

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Masculine aspects of the female psyche.

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Shadow Archetype

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The dark side of the personality; the archetype that contains primitive animal instincts.

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Self Archetype

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To Jung, the archetype that represents the unity, integration, and harmony of the total personality.

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Individuation

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A condition of psychological health resulting from the integration from the integration of all conscious and unconscious facets of the personality.

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Words Association Test

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A projective technique in which a person responds to a stimulus word with whatever word comes to mind.

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Symptom Analysis

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Similar to catharsis, the symptom analysis technique focuses on the symptoms reported by the patient and attempts to interpret the patient's free associations to those symptoms.

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Dream Analysis

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A technique involving the interpretation of dreams to uncover unconscious conflicts.

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Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI)

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An assessment test based on Jung's psychological types and the attitudes of introversion and extraversion.

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Life-history Reconstruction

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Jung's type of case study that involves examining a person's past experiences to identify developmental patterns that may explain present neuroses.