Theories of the Mind

 

Jung is a lot less organised than Freud, so instead of Key Words I've prepared a list of (vaguer) Key Concepts which we will be discussing in the next seminar. Most of them are covered in my Jung lectures; you should also be able to find out about them in the indexes to the Collected Works (Main Library s BF 175) or any book about Jung. There is also a Jungian dictionary, which can't be taken out of the library: Samuels, Andrew, Bani Shorter and Fred Plaut, A critical dictionary of Jungian analysis, (London: Routledge, 1991) Social Science Ref. BF 175.

Helpful websites are here and, especially, here, where you will find a Jung Lexicon. And there is always (but be careful) the Wikipedia.

Your tasks are to get to understand the following key concepts. Everyone should know what all of the concepts mean in order to understand Jung's work. But could the four groups each specialise in and report back about the following, please:

 

group 1: The nature of the unconscious

Jung vs Freud: religion and sexuality
Personal unconscious
Collective unconscious
Projection

group 2: dreams

Compensatory function
The method of interpretation
Archetypal elements
The numinous

group 3: archetypes

Archetypes
anima and animus
the trickster / the shadow
Wise old man / woman