How does reconciliation take place? Hall and Nordby describe it in terms of psychodynamics and the progress of psychic energy. "Progression is defined as a person's daily experiences which advance his psychological adaptation (Hall and Nordby, 1973, p
For Jung in particular, the key mission of personality is to explore and integrate the unconscious with consciousness so as to understand a deeper meaning of one's individual existence. After a brief overview of two of Jung's concepts, the collective unconscious and the archetypes, this paper will focus on what he calls "the transcendent process" (Jung, 1960)
For Jung in particular, the key mission of personality is to explore and integrate the unconscious with consciousness so as to understand a deeper meaning of one's individual existence. After a brief overview of two of Jung's concepts, the collective unconscious and the archetypes, this paper will focus on what he calls "the transcendent process" (Jung, 1960)
For Jung in particular, the key mission of personality is to explore and integrate the unconscious with consciousness so as to understand a deeper meaning of one's individual existence. After a brief overview of two of Jung's concepts, the collective unconscious and the archetypes, this paper will focus on what he calls "the transcendent process" (Jung, 1960)
For Jung in particular, the key mission of personality is to explore and integrate the unconscious with consciousness so as to understand a deeper meaning of one's individual existence. After a brief overview of two of Jung's concepts, the collective unconscious and the archetypes, this paper will focus on what he calls "the transcendent process" (Jung, 1960)
6 million children aged ten to fifteen employed in factories, mills, tenements sweatshops, and street trades such as shoe shining and newspaper vending." (Boyer, 483) While those on the highest rung of the capitalist ladder claimed that they got there by being the most fit, Sinclair pointed out in the Jungle that they really got there, and stayed there, by using corruption and oppression; they were not really the fittest but the most unscrupulous
" (Sinclair, 93) These depictions of the real-life conditions that existed in the meatpacking industry so outraged American citizens that "this story ultimately led President Theodore Roosevelt to push for many of the federal regulations, including the Meat Inspection Act of 1906 and the Pure Food Act, which apply to the food manufacturing industry today." (Cramer, 1) the Jungle was an eye-opening experience for the American people, who did not like what they saw, with the result being government intervention in the industry and a much better and safer product offered to the American consumer
As Sinclair stated, first came the Germans, "the next were the Irish…the Bohemians had come next…" [and after them came the Poles who had] "been driven to the wall by the Lithuanians, and now the Lithuanians were giving way to the Slovaks." (Sinclair, 62-63) Accordingly, immigration was an integral part of the system used by the industrialist to maintain their hold over the workers and keep them in poverty and misery
" (Jung) He goes on to argue that mentally ill patients suffer from being haunted by these collective ghosts. The solution, he suggests, is to understand our mythologies and thereby move these ghosts away from being threatening and instead into representations of our collective humanity (Boeree)
Thus, "according to Jung, we all have an unconscious opposite gender hidden within us and the role of this archetype is to guide us toward the perfect mate." (Heffner)
That which was previously formless in nature suddenly begins to take a new shape, strangely in keeping with what feels like a unique and deeply ingrained individual patterning. There is something in the human psyche, which in its own fullness of time, struggles to produce the 'true personality'" (Jungian Analytic Praxis) Thus, according to Jung, most people do not develop one set personality type at birth
That which was previously formless in nature suddenly begins to take a new shape, strangely in keeping with what feels like a unique and deeply ingrained individual patterning. There is something in the human psyche, which in its own fullness of time, struggles to produce the 'true personality'" (Jungian Analytic Praxis) Thus, according to Jung, most people do not develop one set personality type at birth
These tendencies must be understood to be the product of the collective unconscious as interpreted through our own experiences with individuation. This process may give "specific meaning to a person's identity" (Roesler)
Individuation may be understood to be the "process of maturation in which the psyche ages or matures in much the same manner as the physical body." (Schuelers) According to Jung, this process cannot occur unless a person becomes aware of his/her archetypal spirit (see Archetype, below)
Thus, as a person begins to understand the shadow and the animus / anima in the unconscious mind, s/he will be able to individuate. The self, then, does not stem from individual experience but rather from what has been called "early psychosomatic unity" (Urban 2008)
For instance, there are dreams one could have for instance of the grandmother. According to Freud, there is that interpretation of the grandmother being the individual's grandmother but Jung gives the wider interpretation of the grandmother as a wise person of the society and a guardian figure and that is the collective meaning stored among many people of that society in the collective unconscious (Barbara F., 1999)
This is not without risk, because light is brought to all aspects of the self: "In its containing of opposites, the Self cannot but appear both bright and dark, both good and evil. Yet Jung also saw in this concept great hope for humankind" (Shearer, p
Woodman for example describes a dream in which a client was victimized by the masculine power: "She had, in effect, been forced to swallow the false, demonic spirit just as many today are being forced to swallow false masculine power, false spirit, in the home, at school, in the workplace. They, too are being told, this is God" (Woodman, 1996, p
He believed that the durability of a complex is guaranteed by its continually active felling tone. If the feeling tone is put out then the complex is put out with it (Greene, 2001)
Archetypes being psychic structures that contain biologically related patterns of behaviors consist of certain qualities and expressions of being. They are related to the instinctive life forces motivating the world's mythological stories (Mijares, 2002)