Carl Jung

Carl Rogers was born January 8th, 1902 in Oak Park, Illinois. He came from a strict religious and ethical upbringing. He was an independent, scientific person. As a child, Rogers was very intelligent. When he pursued post-secondary at University of Wisconsin-Madison, he switched majors from agriculture to history to religion. Later, he doubted his choice and pursued a Master and PhD in Psychology. He studied and wrote books on troubled children. In 1947, he was elected President of the APA. Also…

Sigmund Freud suggests that one’s psychodynamic complex directs his conduct in the world (Freud). The protagonist in Shakespeare’s play Hamlet is precisely a character whose actions and thoughts are guided by a sophisticated psychodynamic complex. Hamlet’s personality development is a manifest of the Oedipus complex because his conduct reveals the impact of Oedipus complex in human’s unconsciousness. I will first examine how Oedipus complex shapes Hamlet’s personality development by drawing…

The Darkness Within Many children are afraid of the dark and what lies in it, so they call out to their fearless parents for protection. Adults are supposed to shed light in the dark, and civilization insists that they suppress the darkness in themselves and their children. However, in Joseph Conrad’s novella Heart of Darkness one’s beliefs on civilization is questioned and darkness is brought to a new light. Darkness is a prominent symbol throughout the text and it has significant meaning to…

techniques use stimuli like words and inkblots for the purpose of tapping the unconscious: motives, feelings, emotions. 4.1.1 Word Associations Francis Galton (1879) introduced the method of word association which was first applied clinically by Carl Jung (1910) to detect neurotic conflicts. In this method, a series of words is read aloud to a person who is required to give response to each word with the word that is a prompt response, and not a result of prolonged thought process (as if on a…

Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist who established the body of analytical psychology. He stated that every person has several personalities within oneself. Basically, we can look at one’s personality from four different categories, persona, shadow, anima/animus and archetypes. The easiest to recognize is persona. Persona is a social mask that we all show to the public. We change the roles in different situations in society. For instance, a student acts as an attentive respectful person who…

The Archetypes Identified in the Film “The Wizard of Oz” Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung introduced what he termed archetypes. In his view archetypes are considered to be models of people behaviors or personalities. Dr. Jung lists these archetypes by name calling them the ego, which represent the conscious mind and is the most individual part of the person, the self, represent the unification of the unconsciousness and consciousness of a person. The Shadow, consists of the sex and life…

Ruth Rendell is celebrated as one of the best contemporary British crime novelist, sharing the nickname “Queen of Crime” with another New Age crime writer, P.D James. Rendell wrote captivating psychological mysteries that pushed the boundaries of the traditional mystery genre. Rendell is known primarily as a crime novelist with protagonists who are often deeply disturbed as a result of a childhood trauma. Although she is most well known as a novelist, her short fictions are also highly…

accomplice. (Favila) She uses his insecurities in his strength as a man to taunt him into agreeing. Because of his wife’s constant degrading remarks of his feminine qualities Macbeth is never given the chance to explore his anima. Anima is the term Carl Jung characterizes as the feminine traits of empathy and emotion. (Asp) As Macbeth’s worries and guilt starts to consume him, he starts to hallucinate claiming to see Banquo’s ghost smiling at him. Once again Lady Macbeth uses his obsession to…

The word archetype comes from a greek word “archein,” which means old, original, or patterns. Carl Gustav Jung created the twelve archetypes of the human psyche. “Archetypes represent fundamental human motifs of our experience as we evolved; consequentially, they evoke deep emotions.” (Golden). Numerous people are put into categories and those categories define who you are. The life experiences and events that unfolded, have crafted me into a foolish, leading, and a compassionate person. The…

“Only through art can we emerge through ourselves and see what another person sees” (“Marcel Proust”). The words of French novelist Marcel Proust describe well the result of art’s interpretation as obtaining an understanding that would otherwise be less distinct. For the purpose of understanding the extent to which this effect enhances human understanding, it is necessary to define some key terms. “Interpretation” will be defined as the act of taking meaning from something, “art” will be defined…