Carl Jung s Theories And Theories - 1200 Words

Carl Jung was one of the main theorists in the Psychodynamic field and created his own theory, psychoanalysis. Jung was a student of Freud and his theories and ideas very much align with Freud’s theories. The similarities are evident in Jung’s ideas of unconsciousness, his theory of the libido, and is his notions of archetypes. The main difference is that Jung emphasized other factors besides childhood memories. He partly focused on future aspirations and also delved into the supernatural in his theories and ideas. Jung was one of the first to implement a theory on personality as well. To this day we still refer to Jung’s ideas of introversion and extroversion. Contemporary music has adopted facets of Jung’s theories in their†¦show more content†¦Jung’s psyche notion is broke into three parts: the ego, the personal unconscious, and the collective unconscious. The ego is the awareness of the person and includes memories, cognitions, and affect. The unconscious had a direct effect on personality in Jung’s eyes, and was broken down into two parts. The first part is the personal consciousness, this can contain personal information along with repressed or forgotten past experiences. One of the major parts of the personal consciousness is the complex. This notion is still referred to in the mainstream public and was a topic for many self-help books. The complex are the cognitions used on a particular topic, and the more emphasis put on the topic the greater the complex. The last part is the collective unconscious. This was brought about by Jung’s research into the Native Americans, the supernatural, and through dream analysis. This level of unconsciousness is shared throughout humanity and can explain why the same motifs are found in dreams from people who do not communicate with one another. It is comprised of all the human experience from the present to our ancestral past. It very much has an evolutionary aspect in that experiences that our ancestors may have incurred are embedded deep within each person’s consciousness as a totality of the human experience. Archetypes are any artifacts, cognitions, or instances from our cultural past that tend to show up