Carl Jung

The idea of a subconscious mind with thoughts the conscious mind is unaware of has been around for a long time. Popularized by Sigmund Freud’s research on psychoanalysis, his theory focused on the idea that everyone has thoughts and urges in their subconscious mind that never make it to the conscious mind for them to be acted on. The book, Blindspot: Hidden Biases of Good People, explores a similar idea in terms of unconscious bias and preferences present in everyone. The book also examines the…

Personality influences how people interact with others, and how people make decisions. When managers understand their staff’s personalities, as well as their own personality, it produces the capacity to effectively adapt management styles conducive for assorted personalities. Moreover, when motivational tactics are conditional to personalities, it strengthens the likelihood of goal achievement. Understanding psychological type theory by utilizing Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, partnered with an…

The Oedipus Complex In Sophocles’ Oedipus, it is evident that Oedipus is portrayed and characterized as someone who has experienced Sigmund Freud’s, “Oedipus Complex.” At some point in the child 's life, they will realize that there is a difference between their mother and father, and it will lead to the child to form an erotic sexual impulse to the parent in the opposite sex, which is what the Oedipus Complex is. In this story, Oedipus is attracted to his mother and grows his first hatred and…

Psychoanalytic Theory is the theory of personality organization and the dynamics of personality development that guides psychoanalysis, which was first laid out by Sigmund Freud in the late 19th century. Applying this theory to literary text often gives one a more detailed examination of the minds of the text’s characters. “Frankenstein” is often read through a psychoanalytic lens, as there have been many articles, books, and dissertations written on the subject. The relationship between…

Wordsworth critics have often used the Two-Part Prelude as a basis for psychoanalytic critique. Scholars often cite Lacan as a contributing philosopher for understanding Wordsworth’s implementation of the “blessed babe” in part two of the Two-Part Prelude. However, there seems to be a gap in the scholarship when it comes to discussing the Lacanian Real in connection with the death drive within Wordsworth’s “spots of time.” By first using Lacan's "mirror stage" to investigate the meaning of the…

The Jung Typology assessment is based on the on the Keirsey Temperament Sorter and the Myers Briggs Personality Inventory. There are four personality type measurements: Extraversion vs. Introversion, Sensing vs. Intuition, Thinking vs. Feeling, and Judging vs. Perceiving. After taking the assessment my personality type was determined to be ESFJ; Extravert (25%), Sensing (44%), Feeling (22%) and Judging (9%). According to the Jung’s theory as an extravert I get energy externally and like human…

The epic, “The Iliad,” written by the Greek poet Homer, contains many occurrences of the psychologist Freud’s personality approach to the three elements of Superego, Id, and Ego. Superego, the little angel on one’s shoulder, is considered to be the voice of our moral compass (conscience) that speaks from the unconscious mind on the difference between real and ideal situations. It strives for perfection with tracking what we ought to behave like based on our standards and ideas we have learned…

Dream visions ‘offer an insight into life in this world rather than information about the other world’ (A. C. Spearing) As JoAnna Mink and Jane Ward mention in their study, Joinings and Disjoinings: The Significance of Marital Status in Literature, ‘Chaucer invites each of us to come out of our locked chambers and, through the transforming ministrations of literature, to face even the darkest truth about life.’ The experience of dreaming, then, allows the author to present ideas from his world…

There are multiple interpretations given to the fourth chapter, Self-Consciousness, of Hegel’s Phenomenology of Spirit. Alexandre Kojève initiated a phenomenon that isolates the fourth chapter being an essay in itself discussing anthropology or social philosophy (Magrì 2016; Pippin 2010). These lectures given by Kojève influenced subsequent thinkers like Merleau-Ponty and Sartre (Schmidt 1979). I am rejecting this kind of reading. This is a radical shift of Hegel’s reading from an…

and the second is metaphors and how they can be applied and useful in a therapeutic context. Jungian Approach to Therapy Jung presented an analytical approach to counselling based on psychodynamic schools of thought rooted in the dependence of unconscious processes in psychological functioning, symbolic interpretations and indirect methods of psychological assessment. Jung believed in uncovering the complexities of the psyche through analogies, links to the spiritual world, culture, mythology…