Collective unconscious

A Psychoanalytical Approach on Stanger Things Numerous psychologists have developed and offered their own theories regarding personality. These theories have been used to describe human nature in an everyday setting and in characters in fictional works. This paper will apply Carl Jung’s psychoanalytical approach on several character from the Netflix original series, Stranger Things. Carl Jung and Psychoanalytical Psychology Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist who began his career in a mental…

Freud Freud emphasized that the unconscious mind had an impact on our behaviors. Freud believed our behaviors were fueled by sexual instinct or life. According to Freud, you cannot bring unconscious thoughts into consciousness except under certain extreme situations (Burger, 43). Freud believed that you are born with only one personality structure, the id. The id is only concerned only with satisfying your own personal needs (Burger, 44). Freud developed a structural model that would divide…

Raskolnikov is the type of character that Freud would have obsessed over: a man with a perceived sense of mental stability but with a realm of repressed desires — all the more reason to explore the unconscious, the uncharted realms of the human psyche. Contrary to Carl Jung’s theory of the collective unconscious, the dreams in Dostoevsky’s novel function as something beyond the characterization of archetypes common to multiple individuals. Dostoevsky’s novel, Crime and Punishment, proves to be…

Although Freud was an atheist, I wonder if he may have been on to something that could be explained biblically. The id, as per Friedman and Schustack, “contains the basic psychic energy and motivations, often termed instincts or impulses. The id operates according to the demands of the pleasure principle. That is, the id strives solely to satisfy its desires…” (2012, p. 64). The id is what the Bible refers to as the “self” or the “flesh. Romans 8:5a says, “Those who live according to the…

memory, perceptual skills, needs, drives, feelings, desires and behaviors are built in and find common expressions world-wide. Urges, desires, designs, feelings cry out from within. Carl Jung interpreted archetypes as an expression of a “collective unconscious” – his term for the repository…

Breaking into and out of the Blues: The Universal Neuroses of Mankind in Sonny’s Blues by James Baldwin In Sonny’s Blues, James Baldwin illustrates what Sigmund Freud might call the “universal neurosis of mankind.” It is also the story of overcoming the silence caused by that neuroses, which for Freud, is deeply rooted in the history of human conflict. Baldwin’s story gives the reader an intimate look at the reciprocal nature of societal repression and the way in which people express that…

Carl Jung, the pioneer of analytical psychology, explains complex, a core pattern of emotions, and perceptions in the personal unconscious organized around a common theme (Shultz and Shultz, 2009). Unlike what Carl Jung believed, collective unconscious might also create complexes, such as phobia, the irrational fear, through inheriting instinct. Anyhow, once the complex is fixed, a person starts to have a certain paradigm about the certain theme. Therefore, complexes could be interpreted as a…

Freud 1856-1939) “saw the individual as governed by irrational impulses as she or he passed through a series of psychosexual stages.”(Cowles, (1976). These stages were: 1. The verbal period 2. The anal period 3. The phallic period 4. The latency period 5. Genital period The oral period Its age series is from birth to the 1st year, and its area of the body where pleasure arises when it is touched is the mouth. The infant’s mouth is very important for eating, and the toddler derives pleasure from…

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 instincts and exists as part of the unconscious mind and is composed of repressed ideas, weaknesses, desires, instincts, and shortcomings and often takes the form of the antagonist in a story. The Anima or Animus; the image represented by the anima is feminine…

result to eating, smoking, nail biting, alcoholism, or even thumb sucking. • The difference between Jung and Freud when it comes to structures and collections of the mind is the idea of the collective unconscious. Aside from both dividing the human psych differently, Freud believed the unconscious mind was where we repressed thoughts, memories, thoughts of sex and aggression. Jung believed people had repressed memories based on there ancestral past. • Alfred Adler addressed the need for…