Chapter 12: Freud vs Jung Unconscious 🧠🌌
Freud vs Jung Unconscious 🧠🌌
- Freud: unconscious = hidden container under conscious mind; stores rejected events, feelings, thoughts; mostly sexual and pathological ⚡
- Jung: unconscious = two layers:
- Personal unconscious: personal memories, experiences 🗂️
- Collective unconscious: shared human experiences, mysticism, religion 🌍✨; helps healing, growth, individuation; not always pathological
- Freud → neurotic patients; Jung → psychotic patients
- Religion & mental illness: Jung saw religious symbols in psychotics as integrated personality force 🕊️
Archetypes 🌟
- Elements of psyche acting independently; represented by symbols; different personalities within a person
- Shadow: dark side, evil we are capable of; amoral; bad qualities seen in others; symbols 🐍🐉👹; guards entrance to collective unconscious
- Child: innocence, lightheartedness, basic needs; balances adult seriousness; energy is infectious 👶✨
- Great Mother: nurturing or devouring; Hindu Devis, Hazrat Maryam; fairy tales: feeding mother vs witch/stepmother 👩🍼🧙♀️
- Hero: main story character; ego; defeats shadow; optimistic, unaware of collective unconscious 🦸♂️⚔️
- Wise Old Man: guides hero; kind, fatherly; knowledge & guidance; e.g., Hazrat Khizar guiding Musa 🧙♂️📜
- Anima: female in men; intuitive, spiritual, emotional; helps male hero 💃💫
- Animus: male in women; logical, rational, reality-oriented 👨🧩
- Trickster: negative but important; tests hero, uses trickery; clowns/magicians; folklore/fairy tales 🤡🎩
- Self: integration of all opposites (male/female, ego/shadow, conscious/unconscious); emerges after passing trickster tests; goal of life 🌀💖
Jung’s Treatment 🛋️
- Goal: recognize Self, not cure; dream analysis; symbols interpreted differently than Freud 💤🔮
- Active Imagination: consciously dialoguing with unconscious; contents just below consciousness erupt spontaneously into awareness 🗣️✨
| Key Concepts | Highlights |
|---|---|
| Freud vs Jung Unconscious | Freud (1856-1939): sexual/pathological; Jung (1875-1961): personal + collective, mystical |
| Archetypes | Shadow, Child, Great Mother, Hero, Wise Old Man, Anima, Animus, Trickster, Self — symbolic elements of psyche |
| Jung’s Treatment | Active Imagination, dream analysis for individuation and Self-recognition |