EMP 723 P. Bradley 3 credits
Jung, Intuition, and the Personal Quest for Wholeness I
Description
This course explores Jung’s theory of a personal quest for wholeness through applications to learning, problem solving, and communicating. The central therapeutic concept of Jung's analytical psychology is the concept of the need for balance to gain psychic/intuitive health. Therefore, when an individual is troubled, he or she will engage archetypal intuition, as opposed to merely personal, experience to right an imbalance in the individual psyche. This is the concept of compensation versus wholeness. The attributes of archetypal, personal unconscious, the visionary and the collective unconscious contribute to a personal quest for wholeness. To achieve psychic/intuitive health, or wholeness, the aim is individuation, becoming a whole, individual person. This process is different for each person (and most never achieve it or even attempt it), but Jung believed it especially involved coming to terms with the following archetypes: the shadow, the anima or animus, and the Self. Archetypes come from the collective unconscious and by definition can be positive and negative. In theory their numbers are limitless.
Objectives
- Creation of a vocabulary to explore the link between ancient archetypes and our contemporary lives
- Illuminating these archetypes, showing how to reach our fullest potential by achieving a balance between work, family, and the self
- How working with our intuition and active imagination can integrate our conscious and unconscious selves, leading us to wholeness and a more satisfying life
- Understanding of Jung’s growth-oriented theory, and intuitively elements of modern science
- Study of the approach to Jung’s depth therapy
- An exploration of the dark or hidden aspect of the persona—what it is, how it originates, how it is formed, and how it can be used to bring wholeness to the personality
Topics
Levels of Consciousness:
- Individual: includes Ego, Persona, Personality Types
- Introversion or Extraversion (terms Jung coined)
- Functions of Consciousness (Thinking, Feeling, Intuition, Sensation)
- Family, Clan, Nation
- Large group
- Primeval ancestors
- Animal ancestors in general
- Central Fire (life itself)
Texts
- Carol S. Pearson Awakening the Heroes Within: Twelve Archetypes to Help Us Find Ourselves and Transform Our World
- William McGuire (Editor) Carl Gustav Jung Analytical Psychology
- Naomi L. Quenk Beside Ourselves: Our Hidden Personality in Everyday Life
- Anthony Storr (Editor) Carl Gustav Jung: The Essential Jung
- Angelo Spoto Jung's Typology in Perspective
- Anne Singer Harris Living with Paradox: An Introduction to Jungian Psychology
- Robert A. Johnson Owning Your Own Shadow: Understanding the Dark Side of the Psyche
- Edward C. Whitmont The Symbolic Quest
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