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- Jung was a
- visionary as well
- as a scientist. His
- work attempted
- to reconcile
- modern, rational
- man with the
- darker, hidden
- side of man's being.
- All Jung's teaching
- was aimed at
- balancing the
- opposites in
- human nature:
- the introvert and
- the extravert,
- the conscious and
- the unconscious,
- thinking and feeling
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- Drawing on ancient
- myths, Jung des-
- cribed his life as
- a night-sea journey.
- As the mythical
- hero sails through
- sunrise and sunset
- towards the
- horizon, so life is a
- difficult voyage
- towards the goal of
- understanding
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- Jung (front right)
- was a devoted
- pupil of Sigmund
- Freud (front left).
- The two had a
- father-son bond in
- the early days of
- psychoanalysis. But
- they disagreed
- about mystical
- experience, which
- Jung felt was
- an important tool
- in the exploration
- of the mind
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- Jung and Freud
- were so close they
- were bound to
- argue eventually.
- In psychoanalytic
- terms, Jung had to
- break away from
- the father-figure
- if he was to be
- an individual in
- his own right.
- The split was
- bad-tempered,
- but it set Jung on
- the road to a new
- revelation
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- Like Freud, Jung
- saw dreams as a
- window on the
- unconscious mind.
- But to Jung, the
- coded symbols in
- dreams were not
- disguised sexual
- metaphors. They
- were specific
- 'messages' for the
- dreamer from his
- own unconscious
- mind, and it was
- the analyst's job to
- help interpret them
- #
- While listening to
- his patients, Jung
- discovered that
- dream symbols
- seemed to draw on
- a pool of images
- that also crop up
- time and again in
- ancient stories. So
- myths and dreams
- could have one
- source. Jung called
- this the collective
- unconscious
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- The Wise Old Man
- is one of the many
- universal dream
- images - or
- archetypes - which
- also crop up
- everywhere in
- waking life. In
- popular culture the
- Wise Old Man
- manifests himself
- as Santa Claus; in
- mythology he is
- the magician
- Merlin; in the
- Bible he is Moses;
- in the Star Wars
- movie he is Yoda
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- The mandala, a
- circular pattern in
- Buddhist ritual, is
- another archetype.
- In dreams it occurs
- as a cup, a moon, a
- round table. The
- roundness is a
- symbol of the
- whole Self, both
- conscious and
- unconscious. For
- Jung the goal of
- each individual's
- life is to find
- the "path to
- the center"
- #
- Jung made a basic
- psychological
- division between
- extraverts and
- introverts. But
- within these two
- attitudes he
- identified four
- functions: thinking,
- feeling, sensation
- and intuition. This
- means there are
- eight possible
- personality types,
- arranged in
- opposing pairs
- #
- The eight types are
- not fixed - there
- are mixtures, and
- one person can
- shift in the course
- of a lifetime.
- According to Jung,
- opposite types
- attract. So, for
- example, feeling
- introverted men
- may marry thinking
- extraverted women.
- This is a person's
- unconscious
- acknowledgment
- of the aspects
- he has repressed
- within himself
- #
- Jung was a seeker
- after truth. The
- ideas he explored
- opened up new
- directions for the
- human mind. Yet
- he felt that he was
- just laying the
- foundations for a
- fuller explanation
- of life's deep
- enigmas, that we
- still knew so little
- about the mind
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