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Archetype

In Jungian theory a primitive mental image inherited from the earliest human ancestors and supposed to be present in the collective unconscious.

Carl Jung

Carl Jung, in full Carl Gustav Jung, (born July 26, 1875, Kesswil, Switzerland—died June 6, 1961, Küsnacht), Swiss psychologist and psychiatrist who founded analytic psychology, in some aspects a response to Sigmund Freud’s psychoanalysis.

Centre

This is a word the Self archetype, the Imago Dei, the scared.

Deflation

Ego

Jung saw the ego as the centre of the field of consciousness which contains our conscious awareness of existing and a continuing sense of personal identity. It is the organiser of our thoughts and intuitions, feelings, and sensations, and has access to memories which are not repressed.

Inflation

When an individual is directly accessing any one of the 4 main archetypes, then they are said to be inflated by that energy.

King

Lover

Magician

Psyche

Jung maintained that the psyche is a self-regulating system (like the body). The psyche strives to maintain a balance between opposing qualities while at the same time actively seeking its own development or as he called it, individuation.

Self

The Self, according to Carl Jung, signifies the unification of consciousness and unconsciousness in a person, and representing the psyche as a whole. It is realized as the product of individuation, which in his view is the process of integrating various aspects of one's personality

Sign

Glossary of Terms

Ego
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