carl jung - built environment
- 1. BUILT ENVIRONMENT & SPATIAL CULTURE Lecture 9, 28-03-2014
- 2. Carl Gustav Jung (1871 – 1965) Jung was chosen by Freud to succeed him in his psychoanalytic empire! However Jung disagreed with Freud on several issues: •Dream interpretation •The scope and extension of the unconsious •The significance of sex and sexuality in a person’s life • The Rational vs Spiritual debate Jung was eventually expelled from Freud’s circle and formed his own branch of psychoanalysis called Analytic Psychology Freud’s unconscious • Personal • Subjective • Consists of images, memories, feelings and ideas which were once conscious but are now repressed, meaning not directly accessible to consciousness • Psychologically created after birth of the individual Jung’s unconscious • Collective, universal • Objective • Consists of motifs, ideas, images, personalities, moods, places, visions and spirits we have never known in day-to-day life • We are born with this, predates the individual Concept of Collective Unconscious A part of the unconscious mind, shared by a society, a people, or all humankind, that is the product of ancestral experience and contains such concepts as science, religion, and morality.
- 3. Concept of Archetype:an archetype is an inherited pattern of thought derived from the past experience of the whole race and present in our unconscious minds––Cinderella might be an archetype for girls in our culture Archetypes are autonomous structures within the collective unconscious. They are patterns and symbols that keep recurring world- wide in all people's psyche and have been reappearing from time immemorial. We know them from myths, fairy tales, sagas, legends and stories told the world over. A myth is in fact "a dream being experienced by a whole culture.” Inevitably archetypal figures appear in personal dreams which closely resemble mythic figures, which leads to a natural interest in experience of religion as a psychological phenomenon. Freud had assumed the unconscious to be a personal thing contained within an individual. Jung, on the other hand, saw the personal unconscious mind as sitting atop a much deeper universal layer of consciousness, the collective unconscious – the inherited part of the human psyche not developed from personal experience.
- 4. Forms of Archetypes • The Shadow The 'shadow', which is always of the same sex, is the dark side of the person, characterized by inferior, uncivilized or animal qualities which the 'ego' wishes to hide from others. It is not wholly bad however, but primitive and unadapted; it can vitalize life if honestly faced up to.All the demonic things by which human beings betray their inhumanity to other beings. We encounter it in other people, things and places where we project it. • The Anima & Animus Anima in men and Animus in women, or, the Soul, and is the route to communication with the collective unconscious. It represents our true self.A perfect partnership between man and woman can occur when not only are our physical forms compatible but also the anima and animus. Thus you might find your soul-mate. • The Self It does not refer to the individual self but to the whole of the personality; ego, consciousness personal and collective unconscious. For Jung, the self is not just 'me' but God. It is the spirit that connects and is part of the universe. It is the coherent whole that unifies both consciousness and unconsciousness. It may be found elsewhere in such principles as nirvana and ecstatic harmony.
- 5. Other Archetypal characters Family archetypes • The father: Stern, powerful, controlling • The mother: Feeding, nurturing, soothing • The child: Birth, beginnings, salvation Story archetypes • The hero: Rescuer, champion • The maiden: Purity, desire • The wise old man: Knowledge, guidance • The magician: Mysterious, powerful • The earth mother: Nature • The witch or sorceress: Dangerous • The trickster: Deceiving, hidden Animal archetypes • The faithful dog: Unquestioning loyalty • The enduring horse: Never giving up • The devious cat: Self-serving
Editor's Notes
- #3: Jung: The dream gives a true picture of the subjective state, while the conscious mind denies that this state exists, or recognizes it only grudgingly…
- #5: Jung regarded the mass psychosis of Hitler's Nazi Germany and its genocidal atrocities as occurring because the German 'ego' became inflated through its identification with the pure Aryan race and projected its collective shadow onto the Jews.