Carl Jung's Personality Analysis

Based on Jung’s personality theory, people are conceived with predispositions due to the racial and cultural history of their ancestors (Hall & Gardner, 1957). These inclinations help in guiding future behaviors and are altered based on different experiences that a person may encounter. Therefore, people are born as wholes or at least partially complete with regards to their personality, yet this wholeness is something that an individual has to work on for the duration of their life since it isn’t expressed as soon as the person is born. In other words, no one is born set and stone with a clear mindset of how their life is going to go. Therefore, this wholeness is something that grows and develops as an individual grows throughout life. A …show more content…
According to Hall and Gardner (1957), “Man 's behavior is conditioned not only by his individual and racial history but also by his aims and aspirations” (pp.78). Life is like an ongoing roller coaster which begins to turn from past experiences and keeps on turning as the person construct their behavior in light of future desires; this exciting ride finally stops when the individual achieves self-realization and is satisfied with the person they have …show more content…
According to Hall and Gardner (1957), the personal unconscious is memories that were once conscious but essentially forgotten about because it was either too weak to make a significant impact on the person’s life or forgotten because of the negative impact it had on the person’s life. Each personal unconscious is unique, hence the word personal, and can be brought back to the conscious awareness if the person finds himself in a similar situation that the repressed memory once put him in. The collective unconscious on the other hand, are memories shared by the individual ancestral past. These memories are universal experiences that go past a particular race or culture and are due to repeated experiences that are seen generation after generation (Hall & Gardner, 1957). It’s because of this that Carl Jung believes that people are born with predispositions that guide the way they live and help in developing their personality. The collective unconscious is not learned, but present in all people and these predispositions have the possibility of being revived based on future experiences or aid specific responses to certain situations. For instance, the mother throughout all life forms and species is viewed as the caregiver or the symbol of nurture. No one is born and then afterwards instructed to confine to their mothers, but through past