Jung

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Religion Necessary for personal growth

Agreed with Freud that the personal unconscious consisted of lost or rperessed memories some of which take the form of complexes

Collective unconscious - repressed material is only one kind of unconscious content - consists of primordial images - stem from ancestral past - not literally pictures - resemblance of these contents to mythical and religious themes

'until you make the unconscious conscious, it will direct your life and you will call it fate' - Jung

the pysche consisted of the ego - the personal unconscious and the collective unconscious - jung saw evolution and heredity as a blueprint for the pysche

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Archetypes

Vomes from the greek work meaning 'orginal pattern - unlearn - organise how we experience the world - primitive past forming the basis of the human psyshe - dynamic unconscious entites

The persona - the mask we wear to make a particular impression and it may conceal our own true nature

The shadow - refers to the suppressed, unconscious portion of the personality - creative - symbolises the devil - destructive energies - in contrast with the persona - villain archetypes

The anima and animus - anima is the archetype of the femine archetype in the unconciousness - responsible for moods and - animus masculine part of the feminine mind

The self - mid point of the personality - balancing the conscious and the conscious - archetype is given expression in geometrical form in a mandala

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Individuation

Acquire qualities of an archetype from the collective unconscious - we repress attributes of our true self - repressed traits that are our true self must be intergrated - individation

The intergration results in a wholeness and balance of an individuals's personality - form of self development

individatation aims to divest the self of the false wrappings of the persona - unite good and evil so we see outselves as capable of both - ying and yang - through symbols

Archetpal symbols found in christ regions

Christ - pyschic reality inside the deepest level of the human pysche

The Eucharist - holy communion - symbolised those who sacrifice the selfish

The trinity - christion doctrine of the father son and holy spirit - Jung saw the symbol as one sided in that it lacked opposites

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