Jung

Swiss depth psychologist

Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychoanalyst who founded analytical psychology.

His name appears constantly in discussions of personality types, the collective unconscious, archetypes, and dream analysis.

Jungian describes ideas derived from his work: Jungian analysis, Jungian archetypes.

The Myers-Briggs personality test draws heavily on Jungian concepts. (Lowercase jung is a Korean term for emotional attachment.)

archetypes

shadow

Light blocked by object

  • animaInner personality essence
  • animusDeep-seated hostility
  • selfOne's own being

persona · trickster · hero · wise old man · great mother · child · rebirth · mandala · syzygy · individuation

analytical-psychology

individuation

Distinguishing one from many

transference · countertransference · depth psychology · therapeutic · red book

dreams

interpretation

Assigned meaning

amplification · manifest · latent · imagery · recurring

personality-types

introversion

Inward-directed temperament

sensing · intuition · MBTI · attitudes · functions · typology · auxiliary · personality assessment

collective-unconscious

ancestral

Of one's forebears

archetypes · instinctual · phylogenetic · impersonal

alchemy

opus

Numbered artistic creation

transformation · hermetic · gold · vessel

complexes

inferiority

Lower status or quality

constellation · shell · repressed · neurotic · dissociation · triggered

synchronicity

paranormal

Beyond scientific explanation

quantum · numinous · precognition · telepathy · seriality

Categories
Opposites
psychoanalytic theory

JungFreud

Founder of psychoanalysis

Sigmund Freud · Freudian · Melanie Klein · secular humanism

psychological methodology

JungB.F. Skinner

Behaviorist psychologist, conditioning researcher

behaviorism · Ivan Pavlov · behavioral psychology · John Watson · reductionism

epistemological approach to psyche

Jungreductionism

Explaining wholes through parts

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Family

Jungian

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