Carl Gustav Jung made many contributions to the world of psychology. Perhaps his most important contribution was the work that he did on personality types. Jung did a lot of work with the conscious and unconscious states of mind as well as creating seven interacting systems that make up one's personality. His work has been used in many fields of study including psychology, literature, and education (Thorne and Henley, 2001). Personality typing is one aspect of psychology that I find extremely interesting. Jung's theory on personality is intriguing and provided a framework for test makers to develop personality assessments such as the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator (Thorne and Henley, 2001). Jung's theories of personality such as the ego, personal unconscious, and collective unconscious provide insight into the reasons people behave in the manner they choose as well as providing information as to how people interact with one another. Jung's work was an important contribution to understanding human behavior and this topic is most interesting. Jung developed a personality theory that came to be known as analytical psychology. His writings were interesting even though at times they can be difficult to read. In order to appreciate the work done by Jung it is important to first take a look at his life as well of his theories. .
Jung's Life.
Carl Gustav Jung was born in 1875 in Kesswil, Switzerland. His father was a Reformed Church minister. His parents had an unhappy marriage and as a result Jung developed distrust for women. Jung's mother spent time in a hospital for what Jung believed was "two personalities" (Kerr, 1993). As a result of his dysfunctional family .
life, Jung developed into an unsociable child that had difficulty developing friendships with others. Jung had never been taught the proper behavior for social situations and was not able to communicate well with other classmates. A lifelong friend, Albert Oeri, describes Jung in the following manner: "I had never come across such an asocial monster before" (Kerr, 1993).
Carl Jung was born in 1875 in Switzerland. ... Jung wrote a book called Symbols of Transformation. ... Carl Jung emphasized that the unconscious determines a person's personality. ... Jung also said that the collective unconscious is hereditary. ... Jung claimed " few people have all pairs of forces in balance. ...
At the turn of the century, two colleagues formed a new science of psychoanalysis; these men were the Swiss Carl Jung, and the Viennese Sigmund Freud. ... Jung believed that a broader view had to be constructed. ... Jung believed that the unconsciousness was bigger than that. ... Psyche is Jung's word for the totality of conscious and unconscious life. ... Jung later experienced a recentering in his later years of his life. ...
Carl Jung, B.F. Skinner, and Carl Rogers all had very different outlooks on what defined someone's personality. ... Carl Jung, Carl Rogers, B.F. ... The Backgrounds of the Theorists Carl Jung According to Theories of Personality by Schultz and Schultz, Jung had a very unhappy and lonely childhood. ... Carl Rogers Rogers was the fourth of six children in his family. ...
In understanding myths and religion cross-culturally, Carl Jung observed archetypal themes and entities. ... In this manner, Carl Jung establishes the collective 'dreams' of cultures and coins the term "Collective Unconscious" (Relke, 2007). ... According to Jung, the anima refers to the archetypal female in mythology and religion as an embodiment of profound female attributes located in the male's subconscious. ... The anima is wisdom of "a hidden purpose which seems to reflect a superior knowledge of life's law's" (Jung, 1954a, pp.30-31) The anim...
These traits are better perceived by the human psyche as archetypes; Identified by psychologist Carl Jung as unconscious representation of an original model that is recognized universally; although just a prototype. ... The purpose of this paper is to explore Jung's archetype in society and culture based on the classic portrayal of a hero, by reviewing traditional literature and contemporary films, Jung's identification of an archetype and archetypal images can become understood. ... Jung regards this thought process as instinct derived from a previous collective experience that is...
Another well known psychologist which is actually a student of Freuds' is Carl Jung who is also a psychodynamic psychologist which means he also comes from the conservative point of view which I mentioned earlier meant he felt man is bad and society is good. Carl Jung went a little deeper than Freud did in his theories and he challenges some of his ideas. ... The next part of Carl Jung's theory is the Archetypal Complex, which are common ways of dealing with the world. ... Carl Jung's theory challenges much of Freud's, but in some ways is similar. ... His view of the mind i...
Such people include Carl Jung who worked closely with Sigmund Freud and his analysis. ... Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and began his studies of human motivation in the early 1900s. ... Jung's theories were mostly a modernized version of Austrian psychoanalyst Sigmund Freud. ... (Jung Carl, Encarta) Jung developed his theories based on a wide knowledge of mythology and history. ... (Jung Carl, MSN Encarta) Claude Levi-Strauss was a popular French anthropologist who was most well-known for his development of structural anthropology. ...
In the chapter of Personality Theories about Carl Jung, Dr. ... According to Jung, there are four main categories people can be classified as; introverts and extroverts, sensing and intuiting, thinking and feeling, judging and perceiving. ... One personality test was created by "Katharine Briggs and her daughter Isabel Briggs Myers [they] found Jung's types and functions so revealing of people's personalities that they decided to develop a paper-and-pencil test. ... I took a shortened version of the "Meyers-Briggs" test called the "Jung Typology Test." ...
The ideas gone over in class that have helped me most change my worldview are the example with the sheet of paper and its origins, the explanation of Carl Jung's psychological theories, and the idea that the United State's priorities are really out of whack. ... The psychological theories of Jung have also aided me in my understanding of the world. Jung contains that the conscious or what we are aware of is merely the tip of the iceberg of our psyche. ...
