{"id":18846,"date":"2023-11-17T11:45:13","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T11:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mastermindcontent.co.uk\/?p=18846"},"modified":"2024-01-16T19:32:34","modified_gmt":"2024-01-16T19:32:34","slug":"jungs-model-of-the-mind","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mastermindcontent.co.uk\/jungs-model-of-the-mind\/","title":{"rendered":"Jung\u2019s Model of the Mind\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"
Although heavily influenced by his early tutor and confidante, Sigmund Freud, Jung’s model of the mind was more evolved than the Austrian’s. In my opinion, Jung’s model of the mind is easier to understand how unconscious content tries to make itself known to the conscious mind.<\/p>\n
In brief, Jung felt that split-off fragments of consciousness create a complex in the individual. By observing complexes and one-sided attitudes, it is possible to find a solution and bring the individual to balance.<\/p>\n
Jung also associated complexes with archetypes which he described as ‘psychic energies’ that act “like agents that tend towards the repetition of these same experiences.\u201d<\/p>\n
The archetypes are patterns of energy that take possession of the ego and prompt us into habitual behaviours. But also in repetitive patterns of life experiences such as self-sabotage, getting frustrated over little things, a desperate need for stimulation etc.<\/p>\n
\nThought-Provoking Quote<\/h3>\n
\u201cI wanted to express the fact that one or other basic instinct, or complex of ideas, will invariably concentrate upon itself the greatest sum of psychic energy and thus force the ego into its service. As a rule the ego is drawn into this focus of energy so powerfully that it identifies with it and thinks it desires and needs nothing further. In this way a craze develops, a monomania or possession, an acute one-sidedness which most seriously imperils the psychic equilibrium\u2026.\u201cA man thinks that he wills and chooses, and does not notice that he is already possessed, that his interest has become the master, arrogating all power to itself.\u201d<\/p>\n
~ Carl Jung, CW7 Two Essays on Analytical Psychology <\/b>[1]<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n