1. JUNGIAN PSYCHOLOGY

2. C.G. Jung Austrian psychologist
Built on Freud’s work ( )
Trained in science and medicine
Used thousands of clinical cases

3. Robertson Davies was president of the Jungian society
of Canada.

4. “My life has been permeated and held together by one idea and one goal: namely, to penetrate into the secret of the personality. Everything can be explained from this central point, and all works relate to this one theme.”
Carl Jung
Memories, Dreams, Reflections

6. A person is made up of a body and a psyche (spirit or personality) which
interact.

7. Like the body, the psyche has evolved for centuries.
Each individual inherits from the collective past.

8. The psyche is made up of three components:
Ego
Personal unconscious
Collective unconscious

9. Ego: This component is consciousness, the
perceptions through our senses of ourselves and the world.

10. 2. Personal Unconscious: This component encompasses
feelings or states of mind which were once in our
consciousness but now have slipped or been pushed outside.

12. 3. The Collective Unconscious:
Common to all humans
Works in each of us as archetypes which sometimes erupt in our consciousness

13. We see archetypal images in dreams, myths, legends, fairy tales,
art and religious symbols.

14. Since we are biological, we are a form of energy.
Our psychic energy, the “libido” constantly flows between opposing poles.

15. Therefore if the consciousness represses some unconscious force, the unconscious will surge back in dreams, sudden violent emotion, pain or illness.

16. This reaction will continue until the conscious person recognizes the
opposing force and somehow accommodates it.

17. Opposition of the psychic forces creates tension between parts of the personality.
In response, those parts develop certain functions:

18. EGO:
As we grow, consciousness develops
Ego develops a “persona” which it interposes between itself and the world
The world mistakes this “persona” for the whole personality

19. At the same time, the ego drives those forces that oppose its development in the social world into the personal unconscious.

20. THE PERSONAL UNCONSCIOUS
Develops the suppressed part of the personality which Jung called “the shadow”
The more primitive side of consciousness
Not necessarily evil

21. As our EGO grows our SHADOW grows.
Sometimes the shadow erupts into consciousness

22. Then we feel or do something that startles us because it
seems out of character.
I wasn’t myself.
That didn’t seem like me at all.
I just met him, but
I hate him!

23. An ego that refuses to recognize its shadow invites disruption
However, an ego which recognizes its shadow comes to know itself.

24. THE COLLECTIVE UNCONSCIOUS
Each male personality has a female force called the anima
Each female personality
Has a male force
Called the “animus”

25. A woman searches for her ANIMUS in other men (first sought for in the father
A man searches for his ANIMA in other women (first sought for in the mother)

26. The person who approaches psychic wholeness is the one who has found a satisfying ANIMA.

27. Jung’s psychology describes the growth of
The individual personality towards wholeness,
Towards SELF.
He says:
“Consciousness and unconsciousness do not make a whole when one of them is suppressed and injured by the other. If they must contend,
Let it be at least a fair fight with equal rights on both sides.”

28. Know your SELF.

29. This SELF develops the whole of our lives,
However the afternoon and evening of life can bring disaster to the individual who cannot adapt.

30. Consciousness grows by recognizing the shadow in your personal unconscious and the anima in your collective unconscious.

31. The anima and the shadow are only two of the
archetypes (the forms, shapes of the collective
unconscious) we need to understand and make part of ourselves.
Out of nature and our cultural past, we may understand the following ARCHETYPAL images.

32. 1. Shapes
Cross Circle

33. 2. Journeys
Descent into darkness Rebirth

34. 3. Locations
Heaven Hell

35. 4. Roles
The hero
The villain

36. The heroine
The wise old man

37. The magician
The witch

38. The great mother
The prodigal son

39. The king, ruler The trickster

40. The devil The hermit

41. We feel archetypes in our dreams, our senses, our rituals, our celebrations, myths, legends, fairy tales, music, dance, sculpture, and literature.

42. We need to discover the role of such myth in our own lives.