Bibliography
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Theory of the unconscious mind
- The theory states that a person has three parts to their psyche: the ego, personal unconscious and collective unconscious
- The ego is represented as the conscious mind and comprises of of memories, thoughts and emotions
- Personal unconscious stores repressed memories from childhood and temporarily forgotten information.
Early Work and Relationship with Freud
- Collective unconscious is shared between all people and contains dormant memories from ancestral and evolutionary past of our species
Evaluation
- Jung worked at an Asylum where he was under the care of Eugene Bleuler, who set the foundation for mental illness
- While working there he notice that certain words could illicit an emotional response, which then he associated with ideas around immoral content
- His reputation as a psychologist led him to the ideas of Sigmund Freud, and later working with the man
- He worked with him from 1907-1912, and was thought to be his successor
- This did not last because of a difference in views that they had
- Jung's theories were not as widespread Freud's
- Harder to understand due to it being obscure
- Has been described as "descending into pseudo-philosophy"
- Jung was responsible for the terms introverted and extroverted
- Was also responsible for finding the four basic functions: thinking, feeling, sensing and intuiting
CARL JUNG
- Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychologist
- He is known as the father of analytical psychology with most of his work being about the human behaviour
Early Life
- Born on July 26, 1875, in Kesswil, Switzerland
- He was an only child, something that would fuel his future research
- He turned his back on his father as a Clergy man, an instead went to study medicine at the university of Basel
- He graduated in 1900 and gained masters two years later
Carl Jung