Category: Carl Jung

Psychodynamic theory: Freud How relevant do you think Freud’s ideas are in the modern world? How useful do you think they would be in helping counselling clients? We have all used a Freudian theory in our day by day discourse as our priggish self-declared psychology companions may have called attention to. Actually, the individuals who…

As we transition into 2020 it is a good time to question how well do we know our selves? How do we make sense of our old wounds, our desires, our triggers and behavior? How can we become more balanced, spiritually evolved and how do we harness all our inner power? Perhaps while the seasons…

Many have developed theories of personality, and one of the most notable was created by psychiatrist, Carl Jung. Bruce Neubeaur describes Jungs theory of personality as a topology derived from innate preferences regarding how humans receive and process information. (2001, p. 297) Jungs theory of personality is well known and inspired the notable Meyers-Briggs personality…

Karl Jungs work on the psychology of religion was both ground breaking and amongst the first of its kind in its field; however, like his predecessors, his work was not without flaws or to be met without criticism from within the psychological community and from outside disciplines. Commentators have since argued that Jung rejected the…

What are dreams, what allows them to happen, and what do they mean? Today I will discuss with you two theories of dreaming. Sigmund Freuds 1899 Interpretation of dreams (Freud, 1995) theory as well as Carl Jungs The Archetype and The Collective unconscious (Jung, 1971). Modern-day psychologists perceive dreams to be the result of unsystematic…

Carl Jung had a more authentic and introspective look on the human mind. I feel that Jung was able to look at aspects of ourselves that make us innately human, Jungs archetypes are key foundations in understanding our unconscious. Although I do not believe that Jungs archetypes should be taken completely literally, I do believe…

When discussing The Devil and Miss Prym and The Lottery three main points will be proven the first point shall be how both stories show conflicts and patterns. The second point archetype is being shown in both stories discussing who’s the scapegoat in each story. Third discussing how both stories connect with different philosophies, and…

With thousands of self-help books published under personality each year, and with thousands of psychologists, psychiatrists, scientists and psuedo-scientists identifying a nondescript number of personality types and the traits which fall into them, the idea of the personality is something of a modern phenomenon. Particularly in modern history, the contemporary understanding of the personality finds…

Biographical Information Born on July 26th, 1875 in Kesswil, Switzerland, Carl Jung had a religious upbringing, as his father was a pastor and his mother was daughter to a prominent theologian of the time. The Zeitgeist of rural Switzerland at the time was also so that Christianity in the area was often linked with superstitious…

Introduction: The Dual Personality of Chris Watts Criminals often have two sides to them, a good and bad but can it be possible to keep one side hidden? In the case of Chris Watts, it is. Personality has many sides and this paper will analyze the personality of Chris Watts through the theories of Carl…