Carl Jung's Theories Of Personality

Carl Jung believed that individual’s personality was not only shaped by their past childhood experiences but also their unconscious past experiences of family and species. Unlike Freidan views, Jung believed that we are also shaped by our present and what we want to achieve in life.
He believed that individuals are constantly searching for meaning and self-actualization. He believed that individual’s personality are composed of constructive and destructive forces. The destructive side also known as the shadow or “dark side” which contains feeling such as greed. Jung developed the theory of individuation which states that the primary goal is for individuals to have a balance of their constructive and destructive forces. To this an individual must first acknowledge their shadow not letting it consume them, but accepting that it is there and it is a part of everyone’s human nature to have one. …show more content…
In this layer he believed there were four archetypes, which are “images of universal experiences” (PG 84). Here one would find the persona which is the public mask an individual would wear, animus and anima which is where biological and psychological aspects of masculinity and femininity are believed to coexist, and shadow which is the dark side of our personality that we tend to ignore or disown these feelings. He believed that in a dream state that all of these archetypes are represented in order to help bring balance within an individual. Jung believed that dreams did provide a path to the unconscious and that they provide two functions to an individual. First function is that it can help individuals prepare for anticipated events in the near future and that it also provides a balance between the four