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Analytic Psychology (Critique of Theory (Impossible to falsify, Generated…

- - - - Those sensed by the ego
      - Ego is not the whole personality, but must be completed by the more comprehensive self
      - Minor role in Analytic Psychology
    - - Embraces all repressed, forgotten, or subliminally perceived experiences of the individual
      - Composed of complexes - an emotionally toned conglomeration of associated ideas
    - - has roots in the ancestral past of the entire species
      - Passes from generation to generation as psychic potential.
      - Conveys universal concepts such as God, mother, water, etc.
      - Is the same for all people in all cultures more or less
      - Not inherited ideas but rather an innate tendency to react in a particular way whenever experiences stimulate a biologically inherited response tendency
    - - Ancient, generalized archaic images derived from the collective unconscious
      - instinct is an unconscious physical impulse toward action and archetypes are the psychic counterpart
      - Represented by dreams, fantasies, and delusions
      - Types
        
        Persona - The side of personality shown to the world, if individual identifies too closely with persona they remain unconscious of individuality
        
        Shadow - darkness and repression, qualities we do not wish to acknowledge and hide from ourselves
        
        Anima - The feminine side of men. Requires courage to become acquainted with and few men ever do, impacts man's concept of woman. Symbol of feelings and moods
        
        Animus - male side of women. Symbol of thinking and reasoning. Responsible for illogical opinions attributed to women.
        
        Great Mother - Represents fertility and nourishment but also power and destruction
        
        Wise Old Man - Represents wisdom and meaning, and humans' pre-existing knowledge. Cannot be directly experienced
        
        Hero - Powerful person who fights against impossible odds, but is often undone but insignificant details (i.e. Achilles). Can serve as a model for ideal personality.
        
        Self - Inherited tendency to move toward growth, includes personal and collective images
      - To actualize, people must fully experience the self and overcome fear of the unconscious. and prevent the persona from dominating the personality.
      - Persona is most accessible, then shadow, then anima/animus
  - - - Introversion - turning inward of psychic energy with an orientation toward the subjective
      - Extraversion - person turns outward and is oriented toward the objective. More influenced by surroundings
    - - Thinking - Logical intellectual activity that produces a chain of ideas
      - Feeling - Process of evaluating or valuing an idea or event. NOT emotion
      - Sensing - Receives physical stimuli and transmits to perceptual consciousness
      - Intuiting - based on perception of facts, creatively perceiving beyond consciousness. Add/subtract elements from conscious sensation.
  - - - Anarchic - chaotic and sporadic consciousness
      - Monarchic - development of ego, beginning of logical and verbal thinking, children see themselves objectively
      - Dualistic - ego divides into objective and subjective, children refer to themselves in first person.
  - - - Confession of pathogenic secret - cathartic method
      - Interpretation, explanation, elucidation - give patient insights into causes of neuroses
      - Education of patients as social beings.
      - Transformation - therapist is first a healthy human being, then transform patients.