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The Self in Jungian psychology is a dynamic concept which has undergone numerous modifications since it was first conceptualised as one of the Jungian archetypes. [1] Historically, the Self, according to Carl Jung, signifies the unification of consciousness and unconsciousness in a person, and representing the psyche as a whole. [2]
Dream Analysis: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1928–1930 is a book by Swiss psychiatrist, Carl Gustav Jung. It was first published in English in 1984. [1] In 1991, it was translated and published in the German language. [2] Its overall premise is to provide further clarification upon Jung's dream analysis methods.
Carl Jung standing in front of Burghölzli clinic, Zurich 1909. Jung's intuition that there was more to psyche than individual experience may have originated in his childhood. [12] He had dreams that seemed to come from a source outside himself, and one of his earliest memories was of a dream about an underground phallic god.
An 1890 etching of Burghölzli hospital where Carl Jung began his career. Jung began his career as a psychiatrist in Zürich, Switzerland.Already employed at the Burghölzli hospital in 1901, in his academic dissertation for the medical faculty of the University of Zurich he took the risk of using his experiments on somnambulism and the visions of his mediumistic cousin, Helly Preiswerk.
Ego death is a "complete loss of subjective self-identity". [1] The term is used in various intertwined contexts, with related meanings. The 19th-century philosopher and psychologist William James uses the synonymous term "self-surrender", and Jungian psychology uses the synonymous term psychic death, referring to a fundamental transformation of the psyche. [2]
Jung argued that Freud's procedure of collecting associations to a dream would bring insights into the dreamer's mental complex—a person's associations to anything will reveal the mental complexes, as Jung had shown experimentally [30] —but not necessarily closer to the meaning of the dream. [31] Jung was convinced that the scope of dream ...
Carl Gustav Jung proposed a dual reading of the dream in terms of object and subject, while representing the dream as a dramatic process with phases that shed light on its meaning, always individual but also reducible to cultural and universal issues.
The Self, besides being the center of the psyche, is also autonomous, meaning that it exists outside of time and space. Jung also called the Self an imago Dei. The Self is the source of dreams and often appears as an authority figure in dreams with the ability to perceive events not yet occurred or guide one in the present. [7]