Jungian Psychology
Carl Jung was an early 19th century psychiatrist from Switzerland. Jung was a student of both Eastern and Western philosophy and religion as well as psychiatry and he sought to integrate aspects of spirituality into his theories. Jung echoed Freud’s ideas of an unconscious mind, but he differed in the way he viewed the unconscious. Jung … Keep Reading → divided the unconscious into the Personal and Collective Unconscious. The Personal Unconscious represented the totality of our personal experiences, many of which we will not consciously remember. Jung defined the Collective Unconscious as something deeper than our personal experiences. It has been described as being similar to our DNA; something that is intrinsically a part of us. Jung went on to describe what he called “Archetypes”, which are elements of behavior that we are predisposed to exhibit based on our collective unconscious. Three main Archetypes are The Shadow, which represents inner conflict; The Anima or Animus, which are the internalized aspects of the opposite gender; and The Self, which represents the integration of conscious and unconscious minds. The practice of analytical psychology is the form of analysis based on the teachings of Jung.
