Jung and Freud shared a connection in their thoughts and views on the unconscious mind. However, one of the areas where they differed is the causes of behavior. Freud felt that a person cause of behavior is due to childhood past experiences. Whereas Jung believes that the behavioral cause is because of future aspirations, based on past experiences. Their similarities and differences helped to format and give structure to psychoanalytical therapy. Listed below are the various types of Depth psychology.
Table 1. Types of Depth Psychology
Existential Psychology
Humanistic Psychology
Transpersonal Psychology
Gestalt Psychology
Psychoanalysis
Psychodynamic Source: http://www.allpsychologycareers.com/topics/depth-psychology …show more content…
For Jung, the psyche is inherently separable into component parts with complexes and archetypal contents personified and functioning autonomously as complete secondary selves, not just as drives and processes. The ego Jung saw the ego as the center of the field of consciousness which contains our conscious awareness of existing and a continuing sense of personal identity. It is the organizer of our thoughts and intuitions, feelings, and sensations, and has access to memories which are not repressed. The ego is the bearer of personality and stands at the junction between the inner and outer worlds. Jung also noted that people differ in the conscious use they make of four functions which he termed, thinking, feeling, sensation, and …show more content…
Jung also sees the personal unconscious as having within it potential for future development, and thus is very much in line with his thinking about the psyche (Hopwood).
According to Jung the collective unconscious is one of the distinctive features. He took the view that the whole personality is present in potential from birth and that personality is not solely a function of the environment, as was thought at the time when he was developing his ideas, but merely brings out what is already there. The role of the environment is to emphasize and develop aspects already within the individual.
The archetypes predispose us to approach life and to experience it in certain ways, according to patterns laid down in the psyche. There are archetypal figures, such as mother, father, child, archetypal events, such as birth, death, separation, and archetypal objects such as water, the sun, the moon, snakes, and so on. These images find expression in the psyche, in behavior. It is only archetypal images that are capable of being known and coming to consciousness, the archetypes themselves are deeply unconscious and
Table 1. Types of Depth Psychology
Existential Psychology
Humanistic Psychology
Transpersonal Psychology
Gestalt Psychology
Psychoanalysis
Psychodynamic Source: http://www.allpsychologycareers.com/topics/depth-psychology …show more content…
For Jung, the psyche is inherently separable into component parts with complexes and archetypal contents personified and functioning autonomously as complete secondary selves, not just as drives and processes. The ego Jung saw the ego as the center of the field of consciousness which contains our conscious awareness of existing and a continuing sense of personal identity. It is the organizer of our thoughts and intuitions, feelings, and sensations, and has access to memories which are not repressed. The ego is the bearer of personality and stands at the junction between the inner and outer worlds. Jung also noted that people differ in the conscious use they make of four functions which he termed, thinking, feeling, sensation, and …show more content…
Jung also sees the personal unconscious as having within it potential for future development, and thus is very much in line with his thinking about the psyche (Hopwood).
According to Jung the collective unconscious is one of the distinctive features. He took the view that the whole personality is present in potential from birth and that personality is not solely a function of the environment, as was thought at the time when he was developing his ideas, but merely brings out what is already there. The role of the environment is to emphasize and develop aspects already within the individual.
The archetypes predispose us to approach life and to experience it in certain ways, according to patterns laid down in the psyche. There are archetypal figures, such as mother, father, child, archetypal events, such as birth, death, separation, and archetypal objects such as water, the sun, the moon, snakes, and so on. These images find expression in the psyche, in behavior. It is only archetypal images that are capable of being known and coming to consciousness, the archetypes themselves are deeply unconscious and