Carl Gustav Jung
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http://www.cgjungpage.org/
http://thinkexist.com/quotes/carl_gustav_jung/
http://www.freudfile.org/jung.html
Key Terms
Archetypal Symbolism
Collective Unconscious
Using the above websites (and others) explain what you understand these terms to mean.
Tasks
Everyone should post an understanding of these terms.
Everyone should post some thoughts on these terms.
Everyone should post one other website that they found informative (not Wikipedia)
Off you go...
Archetypal Symbolism
ReplyDeleteThe contents of the collective unconscious are called archetypes. Jung also called them dominants, mythological or primordial images, and a few other names. An archetype is an unlearned tendency to experience things in a certain way.
The archetype has no form of its own, but it acts as an "organizing principle" on the things we see or do. It works the way that instincts work in Freud's theory: At first, the baby just wants something to eat, without knowing what it wants. It has a rather indefinite yearning which can be satisfied by some things and not by others. Later, with experience, the child begins to yearn for something more specific when it is hungry for example a bottle, a cookie, or a yoghurt.
The archetype is like a black hole in space: You only know its there by how it draws matter and light to itself.
Collective Unconscious
Collective unconscious is the reservoir of our experiences as a species, a kind of knowledge we are all born with. And yet we can never be directly conscious of it. It influences all of our experiences and behaviours, most especially the emotional ones, but we only know about it indirectly, by looking at those influences.
There are some experiences that show the effects of the collective unconscious more clearly than others: The experiences of love at first sight, of deja vu and the immediate recognition of certain symbols and the meanings of certain myths, could all be understood as the sudden conjunction of our outer reality and the inner reality of the collective unconscious.
Grander examples are the creative experiences shared by artists and musicians all over the world and in all times, or the spiritual experiences of mystics of all religions, or the parallels in dreams, fantasies, mythologies, fairy tales, and literature.
http://webspace.ship.edu/cgboer/jung.html
I found this web sight really informative as it explained things in great detail, however I could still understand the text clearly.
I thoroughly grasped the meanings of the terms quite quickly after reading through the descriptions. The terms are both personality theories and according to Jung is the content of the unconscious mind that is passed down from generation to generation in all humans.
I didn't really understand what to do with this task, I tired searching and looking it up but I didn't get it and I didn't want to copy and paste something thats didn't make sense to me.
ReplyDeleteArchetypal Symbolism
ReplyDeleteApproximately 350 original essays accompanied by 800 full-color images, from cave drawings to contemporary art, illuminate psyche's mythopoetic nature and symbolic form. Text and image work together to move the reader from the visual experience of an image to the discovery of its psychological resonance and archetypal core.
This information I found was from a website called http://aras.org/
Collective Unconscious
The collective unconscious is a part of the unconscious mind common to all humans. According to Carl Jung, the collective unconscious contains archetypes, universal mental predispositions not grounded in experience. Like Plato's Forms, the archetypes do not originate in the world of the senses, but exist independently of that world and are known directly by the mind. Unlike Plato, however, Jung believed that the archetypes arise spontaneously in the mind, especially in times of crisis. Just as there are meaningful coincidences, such as the beetle and the scarab dream described in the entry on synchronicity, which open the door to transcendent truths, so too a crisis opens the door of the collective unconscious and lets out an archetype to reveal some deep truth hidden from ordinary consciousness.
I understand the meanings of these words now that I have looked at many websites and searched them through different search engines to find the above information.
i also used the same website as Amy willow but I went a step further and visited a page that was listed on the page. and from what i read on the extract provided, Archetypal Symbolism is a sort of quality that we are born with, that allows us to subconsciously create understanding and link them with certain symbols, images and environments, for example the cross is instantly symbolic of religion, it also speaks for example of the ancient Egyptians and their association of the river Nile with life, reverence and power
ReplyDeletehttp://aras.org/docs/BookofSymbolsPreview.pdf
i found this rather hard but gave it a go .... i find that Collective Unconscious to me is a concept created by jung and is basicly what the mind thinks about when we become unconscious thats if we actully can think about something when in a unconscious state. but it is believe that its all spieled around your normal conscious ego.
ReplyDeletethis is the website i used and it has a simple diagram to help. http://www.kheper.net/topics/Jung/collective_unconscious.html
Archetypal Symbolism
ReplyDelete1.An original model or type after which other similar things are patterned; a prototype: "'Frankenstein' . . . 'Dracula' . . . 'Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde' . . . the archetypes that have influenced all subsequent horror stories" (New York Times).
2.An ideal example of a type; quintessence: an archetype of the successful entrepreneur.
3.In Jungian psychology, an inherited pattern of thought or symbolic imagery derived from the past collective experience and present in the individual unconscious.
I go this from http://www.answers.com/topic/archetype and then discovered The Book of Symbols: Reflections on Archetypal Images on http://aras.org/ which is about mythopoetic nature and symbolic form.
Collective Unconscious
In Jungian psychology, a part of the unconscious mind, shared by a society, a people, or all humankind, that is the product of ancestral experience and contains such concepts as science, religion, and morality.
I got this from:http://www.answers.com/topic/collective-unconscious
I also found out some intesting things on this website about it http://www.kheper.net/topics/Jung/collective_unconscious.html
I also agree with Jessica, I didn't fully understand the task that we had to do here, although I did try and do some individual research on the topic, I thought it would be pointless to copy and paste something I didn't completely understand of a webpage.
ReplyDeleteArchetypal symbolism - this is an innate feeling that makes us as humans yearn for something whereas Collective unconcious - is a part of our unconscious mind that holds our moral judgment, or believes such as scientific believes or religious belives.
ReplyDeleteAs both terms have been fully defined i gave myself time to fully understand the two concepts.
ReplyDeleteJung based on his experiences with schizophrenic persons since he worked in a psychiatric hospital. He found that archetypes constitute the structure of the collective unconsciousness. They are psychic innate dispositions to experience and represent basic human behaviour and situation. Thus mother and child relationship is governed by mother archetypal, this is also the same for a father archetypal.
Birth, death, power and failure are governed by archetype. The Self is the most important archetype of the centre of a psychic person. The centre is made of the unity of conscious and unconscious reached through the individuation process. They manifest through archetypal images in dreams and visions. The collective unconsciousness is universal as every human being has it since birth.
Jung quoted that it could be studied in two ways, mythology or analysis.
www.carl-jung.net was very informative and expalined also the freud theory in a simpler informative way.