Short hand Notes: Jung “The Man and His Psychology”

18 April 2011

Why Jung?
I. Yes he was one of the Viennese School of Psychologists
(Freud, Jung, Adler, Frankl)
II. But he had a major influence on the new age of thinking
III. For me – it was because I just did not understand
(collective consciousness; archetypes etc.)

What Makes Jung Different?

I. He embraced the esoteric – the mystical and argued
that psychology is the science where the mind and the
mystical come together;
II. He was an individualist “ to be normal is the ideal aim of
the unsuccessful”
III. Also that he was one of the first psychologists who really
indicated the becoming a whole person is possible, that
real healing lies in the process of becoming whole – in a
sense he was the father of positive psychology because
he believed that self-fulfilment and mental health is
possible;
IV. For me it was because he was his own patient – his most
important work lies in self-analysis during a period of
deep mental instability.

So Where Did It Start?

I. Father - Paul Achilles Jung village pastor
II. Emily Jung (nee Pricewerk)
III. Grandfather of Carl Gustaf Jung (a well know physician),
Rector of Basel University, and Grandmaster of the
Swiss Lodge of Freemasons)
IV. Emily’s father and her brother’s clergyman, with a pre-
occupation with the occult – talking to the dead, and
“the devil looking over her father’s shoulder

Intellectual Mystical Psychological

Early Years
Father – kind but not so experienced, more as someone who
did not have the courage of his conviction
Mother – ill and not available
Deeply introverted – many routines and habits that show
immense powers of introspection and projection:
 I. He, for a long time, did not attend school – fainting
spells
II. His secret carved doll
III. His projection games
IV. The copper column in his castle – air to gold
V. Most important his two personalities “Number one and
Number two”
VI. His return to school

Introversion Deep insight Individualism

Studies
Read Kant, Schopenhauer, that elevated his interest in all
things intellectual
I. Initial study natural science and medicine
II. Liberating effect of study and death of his father – “ he
died in time of you”
III. Heraclites – inherent tendency to turn into their
opposite – compensate for the failings of their parents
(his father’s deficiencies) – Gnostic – one who knows
through experience and personal revelation
IV. But in so many things that shaped his life a dream
compelled him and shaped his destiny – the shadow and
 his consciousness – the black figure and the little light “
my own understanding is the sole treasure I have”
V. He became aware of ability to influence through logic
and originality

VI. “ The Psychology and Pathology of So Called Cult

Phenomena” – Doctoral Dissertation
VII. Helen Pricewerk – the real work of personality
development starts at the unconscious level, and that
goal of personal development is wholeness –
individuation

Apprenticeship

I. Resistance against his specialization in psychiatry

II. Bleuler – identify schizophrenia
III. Eventually deputy
IV. The universality of images and visions of mentally ill
patients
V. Later in his travels to Africa cemented his ideas about
collective consciousness and archetypes
VI. He started the work on word association
VII. That is how he came into contact with Freud
VIII. Psychotic phenomena – not just madness but has rich
psychological meaning
 Freud
I. Word association
II. Talked for 13 hours
III. “the ablest helper to join me so far”
IV. Freud substitute for his father ( a courage mentor,
colleague and friend)
V. Freud himself the son he never had
VI. Freud neurologist not psychiatrist
VII. Break from Freud – individualists and head strong. But
individuation was for Jung important… not autocrat as
Freud
VIII. Particularly nasty – as with other co-workers who either
developed psychosis and more than one who committed
suicide

Married Life
I. Emma Rauschenbach – attractive elegant and loved her
II. Fidelity
III. “The prerequisite in life is licence to be unfaithful” – life
partner mother of his children
IV. Someone who is a soul mate, a person who could
inspire him to higher achievement and be an intellectual
partner - femme inspiratrice who may serve as muse,
inspiring his artistic or spiritual development, and
putting him in touch with correct inner values and
hidden depths of his personality
 V. Many women gathered around him – so called ‘Jung
Frauen” and somehow never left
VI. Tony Wolf
VII. Her influence as Buddhist
VIII. The substitution for an absent mother? Female adjunct.

The Dive into the Unconscious

I. The stress created between Emma and He, about his

affair, his break with Freud and eventually a dark dream
about chaos in Europe, made him near psychotic. Where
others would resign he saw this opportunity:
II. Active imagination – trancelike state
III. Deeper into his own unconscious
IV. Here he met Salome and Philemon (the eternal feminine
and wise old man)
V. Realization that the unconscious have life of own
VI. There he started believing that psychic reality is a fact
of nature – nothing can be known unless it first
appears as a psychic image
VII. From there on – his life flourish and his contribution
cemented – thus proving his ideas of wholeness to be
valid

His Contribution – Vast

For me:
I. Archetypes – the river beds of life, groups and societies
II. Collective unconscious – a function of what? (Evolution;
mystic?)
III. Wholeness is possible by embracing your shadow
(through dream work and deep analysis, where
archetypes can guide your understanding but do not
have to be a prison
IV. Typology – a most used and understood instruments in
business