3 influences for the future
Dreams....A bit of a neo-freudian, (since he studied under Freud) Jung was focused on the meaning of dreams. He saw dreams as a view to the unconscious, and later to be used within psychotherapy.
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The Self...For Jung the self brings together the unconscious and the conscious mind. The self allows for the individuation of each specific person. Later motivational psychology has used Jung's influence on the importance of the self as part of Eccle's theory of motivation as well as Deci and Ryan's Self- Determination Theory. Both of these theorists draw upon the ideas of Jung that the self is an important component of happiness in life.
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Postive PsychologyJung believed heavily is finding the true meaning of life. What this is differs from person to person, but in the mind of Jung, this is always positive, and happy. This also takes into account the individual self. This means that some people are introverts and others are extroverts. Despite the common conception that introversion means shy, Jung meant this to mean that people derived life energy from alone time. Extroversion on the opposite scope is deriving life energy from being in the company of others. This is another term that is often misconceived as being outspoken or loud.
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Following in the footsteps of Jung...
Later on new psychologists used theories developed by Jung to come up with new ways of practicing psychology. Victor Frankl was kept in the internment camps in the Holocaust, He was only kept alive by redeveloping his ideas about himself and the future. He used this experience to later become a very successful positive psychologist.
“When we are no longer able to change a situation, we are challenged to change ourselves.” ― Viktor E. Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning |
Life is a journey. Jung was able to take from foundations concepts and ideas of Freud and make them more relatable to new psychology.
“The Jungian conception that images of divinity and the sacred are representative of archetypes within the collective unconscious has given the neo-Pagan movement a conceptual framework within which it has been possible to accommodate polytheistic religious belief.” |