In Neo-Analytic Psychology, analysis of human soul or psyche of an individual was among the most important part of Jung’s legacy. He interpreted that psyche is a self-regulating system where it operates through the principle of opposite meanwhile constantly striving for growth (Raya, 2013). The theory of Carl Jung describes the psyche through three component parts. His concepts of the psyche can be broken down as conscious ego, personal unconscious and the collective unconscious.
According to Jung, conscious ego is the center of the field of consciousness of an individual as it embodies clear sense of themself, their own giftedness and their own importance. This part of mind links the inner and outer world together, while relating people to …show more content…
Ccritics suggest that Mother Teresa’s actions of helping the poor were driven by her own agenda such as spreading Christianity within the Calcutta population where most of them are Hindus or Muslims (Hitchens, 2012). Moreover, some opponents claim that her actions of serving the poor without formulating initiatives to tackle from the grassroots indicated that she was actually promoting poverty and wanted to keep her missionary whom she was famous for (Leng, 2011).
Another archetype that is clearly reflected in Mother Teresa is the great mother, which could be loving or evil and symbolizes generativity or destruction respectively (Jung, 1981). Mother Teresa developed religious beliefs since young through the exposure to the church which represented a figurative mother figure (Ford, 2004). She then proceeded to portray an actual figure of the loving mother that provides care, comfort and protection (Jacobson, 1993) by caring for the poorest of the poor who were unwanted, unloved and uncared …show more content…
There are two attitudes which are extroversion and introversion; and there are four functions which are sensing, thinking, feeling and intuiting. The psychological type that would best suit Mother Teresa would be a dominant attitude of introversion and a dominant attitude of feeling. Introverts obtain a source of energy within their internal world and people with a feeling attitude tends to process information based on feelings and emotions rather than logic reasoning (Jung 1976). Mother Teresa would channel more energy into introspection which led to her realization of her calling to become a nun and eventually devote herself to help the poor, acting as a “pencil” of God trying to make a change. She also had deep emotional encounters in which she could empathize with the feelings of the poor. For instance, she accompanied a poor woman that was facing her death in a bad condition by stroking her head and was enlightened by that experience that many people live in the poverty of care, warmth and acceptance (Woodward, 1997). Despite the immense feelings for others which aided her in making decisions to form a missionary and serve the poor, Mother Teresa rarely share those emotions with others due to her introvert attitude. Instead of voicing out her emotional experiences, Mother Teresa opted to express them in her actions, where she actively involved herself in
According to Jung, conscious ego is the center of the field of consciousness of an individual as it embodies clear sense of themself, their own giftedness and their own importance. This part of mind links the inner and outer world together, while relating people to …show more content…
Ccritics suggest that Mother Teresa’s actions of helping the poor were driven by her own agenda such as spreading Christianity within the Calcutta population where most of them are Hindus or Muslims (Hitchens, 2012). Moreover, some opponents claim that her actions of serving the poor without formulating initiatives to tackle from the grassroots indicated that she was actually promoting poverty and wanted to keep her missionary whom she was famous for (Leng, 2011).
Another archetype that is clearly reflected in Mother Teresa is the great mother, which could be loving or evil and symbolizes generativity or destruction respectively (Jung, 1981). Mother Teresa developed religious beliefs since young through the exposure to the church which represented a figurative mother figure (Ford, 2004). She then proceeded to portray an actual figure of the loving mother that provides care, comfort and protection (Jacobson, 1993) by caring for the poorest of the poor who were unwanted, unloved and uncared …show more content…
There are two attitudes which are extroversion and introversion; and there are four functions which are sensing, thinking, feeling and intuiting. The psychological type that would best suit Mother Teresa would be a dominant attitude of introversion and a dominant attitude of feeling. Introverts obtain a source of energy within their internal world and people with a feeling attitude tends to process information based on feelings and emotions rather than logic reasoning (Jung 1976). Mother Teresa would channel more energy into introspection which led to her realization of her calling to become a nun and eventually devote herself to help the poor, acting as a “pencil” of God trying to make a change. She also had deep emotional encounters in which she could empathize with the feelings of the poor. For instance, she accompanied a poor woman that was facing her death in a bad condition by stroking her head and was enlightened by that experience that many people live in the poverty of care, warmth and acceptance (Woodward, 1997). Despite the immense feelings for others which aided her in making decisions to form a missionary and serve the poor, Mother Teresa rarely share those emotions with others due to her introvert attitude. Instead of voicing out her emotional experiences, Mother Teresa opted to express them in her actions, where she actively involved herself in