Carl Jung is a Swiss-born psychotherapist, who was the second of three surviving children born to his parents. Carl Yung’s childhood was surrounded by his eight uncles and father who were all part of the clergy. However, his mother was more of a spiritualist, who was said to be able to communicate with spirits. The small village that Carl Yung grew up in was heavily influenced by religion and magic. Jung, himself, had a difficult time differentiating fantasy from reality. Yung was influenced early on by his parents. Growing up, Yung’s Mother was both physical and emotional ill. However, she was described as warm, good listener, and strong in spirit. In contrast, Yung was close to his father. He was described as reliable but, had bouts …show more content…
Also, Yung believed that by revealing unconscious and repressed material to the consciousness that we start our journey to become a “whole” and functioning person. Yung believed that the psyche consists of the conscious or what we are aware of. Yung theorized that the conscious continued to develop overtime but is mediated by our ego by the age eight or nine. The conscious mind filters all our experiences through our psyche in order to assimilate with an individual’s personality type. The second aspect of psyche is our personal unconscious, which is all our repressed thoughts and behaviors, and our collective unconscious, archetypes in the form of images which provide our basic blueprint of ways of being in the world. The last part of our psyche is the collective unconscious, which according to Yung’s theory is the survival function for the species. The theory states that our collective unconscious is stated to be universal with no difference between …show more content…
These archetypes reflect a scope of behavioral patterns that are dependent on an individual’s psychology and what has been repressed. Archetypes are stated to intrude on our personal unconscious and ultimately affect our behavior. Due to this there are unlimited numbers of archetypes but, some are more common than others. For example, our persona, our external mask, our shadow, all of what is hidden and we claim not to be, the Anima/Animus, which is our gender self-opposite.
Yung theorized that our awareness develops while we are in the womb or soon after birth. Also, Yung theorized consciousness related to how we develop our various mental functions which includes our perceptive functioning and judging functions. Yung also believed that we are born with both the extroverted and introverted attitudes but, we have an inner tendency to favor one over the other.
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