Summary: <p>Jungian Archetypes</p> <p>A CEU course for this podcast can be found at <a href="https://www.allceus.com/member/cart/index/search?q=jungian">https://www.allceus.com/member/cart/index/search?q=jungian</a></p> <p>~ Define Archetypes<br> ~ Explore where they come from<br> ~ Learn about each archetype and how to best serve them in counseling<br> ~ Explore the type/archetype connection<br> ~ Define each personality type and potential “stuck points”<br> Collective Unconscious & Archetypes<br> ~ Archetypes are innate, universal, and hereditary and function to organize how we experience certain things.<br> ~ The collective unconscious, Jung believed, was where these archetypes exist.<br> ~ Jung rejected the concept of tabula rasa<br> ~ He believed that the human mind retains fundamental, unconscious, biological aspects of our ancestors which serve as a basic foundation of how to be human.</p> <p>Archetypes<br> ~ Archetypes symbolize basic human motivations, values, and personalities.<br> ~ The Persona<br> ~ The Shadow<br> ~ The Self<br> ~ Anima/Animus<br> ~ Each archetype played a role in personality, but felt that most people were dominated by one specific archetype.<br> ~ The actual way in which an archetype is expressed or realized depends upon an individual's cultural influences and unique personal experiences.<br> Persona<br> ~ The persona, derived from the Latin word for “mask” is how we present ourselves to the world.<br> ~ Represents all of the different social masks that we wear among various groups and situations.<br> ~ This social mask to contains all of the primitive urges, impulses, and emotions that are not considered socially acceptable in each social situation.<br> ~ Becoming too closely identified with this archetype can lead people to lose sight of their true selves.<br> Shadow<br> ~ The shadow is an archetype that consists of the sex and life instincts, composed of repressed ideas, weaknesses, desires, instincts, and shortcomings. (Dark side)<br> ~ The shadow forms out of our attempts to adapt to cultural norms and expectations.<br> ~ It is this archetype that contains all of the things that are unacceptable not only to society, but also to one's own personal morals and values.<br> Anima/Animus<br> ~ The anima is a feminine image in the male psyche<br> ~ The animus is a male image in the female psyche.<br> ~ The anima/animus represents the “true self” rather than the image we present to others<br> ~ The collective unconscious may contain notions about how women should behave while personal experience contribute to more personal images of women.<br> ~ Jung suggested that this discouragement of men exploring their feminine aspects and women exploring their masculine aspects served to undermine psychological development.</p> <p>The Self<br> ~ The self is an archetype that represents the unified unconsciousness and consciousness of an individual.<br> ~ Creating the self occurs through a process known as individuation, in which the various aspects of personality are integrated.<br> ~ Who you “should be” the persona<br> ~ Your repressed “dark side,” the shadow<br> ~ Your masculine and feminine identity, anima/animus<br> ~ Creating the self occurs through a process known as individuation, in which the various aspects of personality are integrated.<br> Jung and Personality<br> ~ Jung proposed three fundamental, innate, dichotomous ways by which individuals take in information and make decisions, in order to achieve individuation<br> ~ An individual can use either “side” of each of the following dichotomies, but will prefer and tend to use one “pole” over the other.<br> ~ Carl G. Jung (1875-1961) wrote that what appears to be random behavior is actually the result of differences in the way people prefer to use their mental capacities.<br> Type and Archetype<br> ~ Type is more descriptive of how we</p>
