Jung's collective unconscious and archetypes
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- Created on: 26-02-14 12:44
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- The collective unconscious and Jung's theory of archetypes
- The collective unconscious
- Concept was thought of after he worked with schizophrenic patients
- Rejected Freud's view that neuroses were caused by repressed sexuality
- Even if religion were a neurosis, it could not be traced back to sexual trauma.
- Argued the libido was something more complicated than a sexual drive.
- Collective unconscious is the oldest part of the mind; contains blueprints for a whole range of ideas
- Collective unconscious contains knowledge that is already within humans; they do not need to learn it
- Each one of us is born with the likeliness to conceive similar kinds of imagery with certain ideas. Jung sees God as one of these
- Concept was thought of after he worked with schizophrenic patients
- Archetypes
- The persona
- How we present ourselves to the world
- Persona derived from Latin word which literally means 'mask'
- Different masks for different groups of society
- Shields the ego from negative images
- The anima or animus
- Anima- Male psyche. Animus- Female psyche.
- Represents our true self rather than image conveyed to others
- Primary source of communication with the collective unconscious
- Represents wholeness and completion
- The persona
- The collective unconscious
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