The Art of C. G. Jung

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Jung, Emma; Franz, Marie-Luise von (1998). The Grail Legend. Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press. p.36. ISBN 0-691-00237-1. Carl Gustav Jung’s first publication, in 1902, was his d This energy is directed towards areas of conflict to facilitate growth, development, and adaptation, reducing internal tension and dissatisfaction. This process, which can involve recognizing and integrating these ‘dark’ elements into our conscious self, aids in fostering a well-rounded personality.

Butler, Jason A. (2014-04-03). Archetypal Psychotherapy. Routledge. doi: 10.4324/9781315856803. ISBN 978-1-315-85680-3. Both Freud and Jung placed emphasis on dreams as keys to understanding the unconscious mind. However, Freud saw dreams as wish fulfillment and a way to delve into an individual’s hidden desires. Archetypes are innate universal pre-conscious psychic dispositions, allowing humans to react in a human manner [47] as they form the substrate from which the basic themes of human life emerge. The archetypes are components of the collective unconscious and serve to organize, direct and inform human thought and behavior. Archetypes hold control of the human life cycle. [28] While this can be frustrating for others, it’s more problematic for the individual as it can lead to an incomplete realization of their full personality. Freud believed that the unconscious mind is a reservoir of repressed experiences and desires. He saw it as primarily personal and filled with content that was once conscious but has been forgotten or suppressed.The collective unconscious consists of pre-existent forms, or archetypes, which can surface in consciousness in the form of dreams, visions, or feelings, and are expressed in our culture, art, religion, and symbolic experiences. Psychologist Carl Jung considered the psychological roots of artistic creation in the modern world in a number of essays and lectures collected in the book, The Spirit in Man, Art and Literature. How did we progress from our primitive state, in which Jung perceived art, science and religion coalescing in “the undifferentiated chaos of the magical mentality” to the cultural and artistic climate familiar in the modern world? In what manner does art – and its symbolic content – reflect the seemingly tumultuous psychological nature of the artist? Can the art be used to decode the artist? The Creative Impulse Papadopoulos, Renos K. (2006). The Handbook of Jungian Psychology: Theory, Practice and Applications. New York: Routledge. pp.76, 84, 85. ISBN 1-58391-147-2. Rancour, Patrice (1 December 2008). "Using Archetypes and Transitions Theory to Help Patients Move From Active Treatment to Survivorship". Clinical Journal of Oncology Nursing. 12 (6): 935–940. doi: 10.1188/08.CJON.935-940. PMID 19064387.

Jung saw the libido not merely as sexual energy, but as a generalized life force or psychic energy. According to his theory, this energy is not only the driver behind our sexual desires but also fuels our spiritual, intellectual, and creative pursuits. In his book, Jung and the Post-Jungians, Andrew Samuels points out some important developments that relate to the concept of Jungian archetypes. Claude Lévi-Strauss was an advocate of structuralism in anthropology and, similar to Jung, was interested in better understanding the nature of collective phenomena. [5] As he worked to understand the structure and meaning of myth, Levi-Strauss came to the conclusion that present phenomena are transformations of earlier structures or infrastructures, going so far as to state that "the structure of primitive thoughts is present in our minds". [52] Roesler, C. (2012). Are archetypes transmitted more by culture than biology? Questions arising from conceptualizations of the archetype. Journal of Analytical Psychology, 57(2), 223-246.a b Higgins, Gareth (2013). Cinematic States: Stories We Tell, the American Dreamlife, and How to Understand Everything*. Conundrum Press. ISBN 9781938633348. Hall, Garret (April 2013). The Jungian Psychology of Cool: Ryan Gosling and the Repurposing of Midcentury Male Rebels. Proceedings of The National Conference On Undergraduate Research (NCUR) 2013. University of Wisconsin La Crosse, WI. CiteSeerX 10.1.1.911.5375. Archetypal psychology was developed by James Hillman in the second half of the 20th century. Hillman trained at the Jung Institute and was its Director after graduation. Archetypal psychology is in the Jungian tradition and most directly related to analytical psychology and psychodynamic theory, yet departs radically, even from Jung's original concept of what an archetype is. [58] Archetypal psychology relativizes and deliteralizes the ego and focuses on the psyche (or soul) itself and the archai, the deepest patterns of psychic functioning, the "fundamental fantasies that animate all of life". [59] Archetypal psychology is a polytheistic psychology, in that it attempts to recognize the myriad fantasies and myths, gods, goddesses, demigods, mortals and animals – that shape and are shaped by our psychological lives. [60] According to Hillman, the ego is just one psychological fantasy that exists within a multitude of other fantasies. [59]