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Analytical Theory (Jung)

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Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences

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Analytical psychology; Jungian psychoanalysis; Jungian psychology

Definition

Carl Jung originally wanted to call his approach to psychotherapy and personality development “synthesis” rather than “analysis” as a way not only of distinguishing it from the psychoanalytic approach of Freud which he saw as reductive but to emphasize that the psychological need necessary for any individual was to bring together the disparate and conflicted aspects of their personality, both conscious and unconscious. By adding the concept of the collective unconscious and the archetypes it contains, Jung provided a way both to understand and progress psychological development.

Introduction

Jung’s theory of personality is one of the most comprehensive because it contains the three essential components of any such theory. Firstly, it says something about the way an individual’s psyche is structured for he postulated both consciousness and two components to the unconscious – the personal unconscious...

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  1. Australian & New Zealand Society of Jungian Analysts, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    John Merchant

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  1. Oakland University, Rochester, USA

    Virgil Zeigler-Hill

  2. Oakland University, Rochester, USA

    Todd K. Shackelford

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  1. MacQuarie University, North Ryde, Australia

    Simon Boag

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Merchant, J. (2016). Analytical Theory (Jung). In: Zeigler-Hill, V., Shackelford, T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Personality and Individual Differences. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-28099-8_1360-1

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