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Jung's Reflection

Carl Gustav Jung's analytical psychology theory of personality extends and builds upon Freud's psychoanalytic theory by addressing some of its gaps. Jung proposes concepts like the collective unconscious and archetypes to explain universal patterns in human behavior and tendencies like morality, spirituality, and intuition that Freud's theory could not fully account for. Jung's theory presents a more comprehensive and optimistic view of human nature that sees people as actively organizing their experiences according to inborn mental structures, rather than being entirely shaped by past experiences. His focus on intuition, collective unconscious, and archetypes provides a framework for understanding mysteries of history and human potential that psychology has yet to fully explore.

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Jung's Reflection

Carl Gustav Jung's analytical psychology theory of personality extends and builds upon Freud's psychoanalytic theory by addressing some of its gaps. Jung proposes concepts like the collective unconscious and archetypes to explain universal patterns in human behavior and tendencies like morality, spirituality, and intuition that Freud's theory could not fully account for. Jung's theory presents a more comprehensive and optimistic view of human nature that sees people as actively organizing their experiences according to inborn mental structures, rather than being entirely shaped by past experiences. His focus on intuition, collective unconscious, and archetypes provides a framework for understanding mysteries of history and human potential that psychology has yet to fully explore.

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Reflection on Carl Gustav Jungs Theory of Personality


(Analytical Psychology)

NAME: SHAHAK
ID: 15006142009
PROGRAME: M.Sc (Psy) B.06
SUBJECT: Personality Theory
SUBMITED TO Ms. Haya Fatimah

UNIVERSITY OF MANAGEMENT AND TECHNOLOGY

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Psychoanalytic approach has some very interesting and fascinating epistemological


aspects in its technique. Freud appears in this scenario experiencing the some hidden factors
influencing human behavior, tries to arrange them in some pattern to understand different
behavioral manifestations of these factors. He uses his own mental capacities, knowledge and
experience context to explain them.
Whereas, Jung finds the same hidden factors, that drives the human behavior and shapes
the personality, with a different medium to understand them. In both approaches, it is agreed that
the human behavior has some latent factors and these factors play the major role to determine the
personality or, lets call it mind.
Both approaches show the universal truth that reality is functional and we can reach to
our own truth. Both designed practical uses of their paradigm and applied it successfully. To me
the truth is personal and functional and it is valid if it satisfies the situation that we come across.
For a layman, its a functional truth that sun is revolving around the earth, rising in the east and
setting in the west. It is the valid truth for him because with this concept he successfully carries
out his daily life activities with its help to determine the time.
Therefore the techniques used in psychoanalytical approaches to explain the human
nature are itself the evidence of the oneness of consciousness. Every person looks the shadow of
the same truth with his own level of knowledge and patterns of expressions. It is a great evidence
of the phenomenon that revals that we all may get some lights of the truth with our own medium
to express them. Therefore, to persons explaining the same truth may differ but may not be
wrong. And that is the case in psychoanalytical approaches.

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Probing deep into the analytical theory of Jung, I found it a sort of extension to Freuds
theory of mind. Freuds theory has some gapes and fails to explain some of the facts like intuitive
phenomenon in human behavior. It bring forward a dark side of the human which is against the
everyday life observation that human are not so deeply dark-natured. In this scenario Jung brings
some more suggestions about human psyche which are an attempt to fill these gapes. Analytical
psychology is an attempt to high light the colors in human psyche which seemed black in Freuds
theory. It gives the concept of universal morality which is innate and primordial. It places the
religion in its right place which is a universal tendency of all human collectivity.
Jungs theory of personality is an attempt to broaden the preexisting theory of Freud. It
has much to accept and accommodate in itself such as the morality, humanity, ancient wisdom
traveling through generations and the universality of tendencies in all human beings.
Jung has a very comprehensive approach of human nature which has a touch of
philosophy and a flavor of literature. He touches the Kantian philosophical approach by saying
that human behavior is not all about the experiences but how these experiences are organized
dealt with existing mental forces he calls archetypes. His theory is a very optimistic
characteristic that human being is not a passive receiver of experiences but an active manipulator
of these experiences with the existing mental abilities which is almost same as Kant pointed out
in his philosophical notions.
Jungs theory accommodates more concepts of evolution and explains the evolution of
psyche more comprehensively. If I am not mistaken Jungs calls the collective unconsciousness
the collective psyche of human species preserved in every individuals mind. I think it could be

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broaden as the collective experiences of all the species exists on the earth because the behavioral
manifestations in all animals is witnessed to be flowing from the same origin.
New findings in different studies show that sometimes people reveals such memories and
knowledge which are not learnt which are the very strong evidence of collective consciousness. I
personally find in his theory the identification of the existence of intuition in human mind which
he introduced with logical and systematical fashion, the most important part of his theory. It
needs much attention in todays psychological disciplines. Studying the intuitive mechanism may
open new doors and may help us to understand some mysteries of history such as the pyramid of
Egypt. I think psychology needs to work on intuitive aspects of mind in order to promote the
intuitive treasure of human beings which may be more powerful and fascinating the cognition.
Thats all

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