Today I have decided to blog again exclusively about another key player in the field of psychology. This person would be Carl Jung the founder of Analytical Psychology, which is also known as Jungian Psychology. Analytical psychology tries to incorporate and apprehend the deep forces and motivations underlying peoples behavior by the practice of an accumulative phenomenology around the significance of dreams, folklore and mythology. Jung has also been been influential to cross cultural movements all over the world and depth psychology-("a broad term that refers to any psychological approach examining the depth or the subtle or unconscious parts of human experience"). It seems obvious to me Jung has clearly had a incredibly interesting life with research travels around the globe, his close and interesting relationship with Freud, living through World War 2 and having his career impacted by evil Nazism and really just his big overall influence in the field of psychology that is even believed to have been an influence in the Alcohol Anonymous organization. Jung was considered to be the first modern psychologist to state that the human psyche is "by nature religious" and he thought it was important to understand this at length. Jung promoted understanding the psyche through dreams, art, mythology, religion and philosophy. Jung was a practicing physician and also a theoretical psychologist but what a lot of his work actually showed was a big interest in Eastern and Western philosophy, alchemy, astrology, the arts, sociology and literature. Interestingly Jung believed it was important to have balance and harmony and to really not fully rely on science and logic and he believed that it is important to incorporate spirituality and the appreciation of unconscious realms. Jung also thought the process of individuation was an important process for a person to become whole. Individuation was a major part of analytical psychology and is a process of a person incorporating the unconsciousness with the consciousness while still maintaining conscious independence. Jung was also importantly responsible or influential for: the concept of introversion and extroversion; the concept of the complex; the collective unconsciousness- ("part of the unconscious mind shared by a society, a people, or all humanity, that is the product of ancestral experience and contains such concepts as science, religion, and morality"); archetypes-("models of a person, personality or behavior"); synchronicity-("the experience of two or more events which are casually unrelated occurring together in a supposedly meaningful manner"); The Myers Brigg Type Indicator-("a psychometric questionnaire designed to measure psychological preferences in how people perceive the world and make decisions"); Socionics-("a theory of information processing and personality type, distinguished by its informational model of the psyche"). So clearly just in this short research entry of mine it seems Jung is certainly right far up the totem pole of having a big influence and a robust career with all sorts of significant research that I bet could be read over days.
posted by Ryan at 8:10 PM
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Jung had a long association with
W. Pauli, the physicist, (1932-1958) and their letters were
published under title, "atom
and archetype." The main conclusions to archetypal reality
is the nature of "acausal connections" - (synchronicity) in
the space-time continuum.
Jung and Pauli suggested that
number is the most primal archetype
of order in the human mind, i.e., that it is pre-existent to consciousness, and further explains
this notion with these comments:
Since the remotest times men have used number to establish meaningful coincidences, that is, coincidences that can be interpreted.
There is something peculiar, one might even say mysterious about numbers. They have never been entirely robbed of their numinous aura. If, so a textbook of mathematics tell us, a group of objects is deprived of every single one of its properties or characteristics, there still remains, at the end, its number, which seems to indicate that number is something irreducible.
The sequence of natural numbers turns out to be unexpectedly more than a mere stringing together of identical units; it contains the whole of mathematics and everything yet to be discovered in this field.
Number, therefore, is in one sense an unpredictable entity.
It is generally believed that numbers were invented, or thought out by man, and are therefore nothing but concepts of quantities containing nothing that was not previously put into them by the human intellect. But it is equally possible that numbers were found or discovered.. In that case they are not only concepts but something more-autonomous entities which somehow contain more than just quantities.
Unlike concepts, they are based not on any conditions but on the quality of being themselves, on a "so-ness" that cannot be expressed by an intellectual concept.
Under these conditions they might easily be endowed with qualities that have still to be discovered.
I must confess that I incline to the view that numbers were as much found as invented, and that in consequence they possess a relative autonomy analogous to that of the archetypes.
They would then have in common with the latter, the quality of being pre-existent to consciousness, and hence, on occasion, of conditioning it, rather than being conditioned by it.
Appropriate quotes:
"man has need of the word, but in
essence number is sacred." Jung....
"our primary mathematical intuitions can be arranged
before we become conscious
of them." Pauli....
"numomathematics"
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