Carl Jung: Difference between revisions

* [[Humanity Is Insane]]: Perhaps not all the way insane, but Jung definitely believed 'modern man' had issues.

* [[Introversion Tropes]]: The extraversion-introversion personality dimension is a discovery of Jung's, and thus this category of tropes is largely his work.

* [[One Myth to Rule Them All]]: Again, in psychological terms. With Joseph Campbell, the [[Trope Codifier]].

* [[Ouroboros]]: The serpent that devours its own tail was one of many symbols Jung tried to explain as he studied alchemy. He identified the it with the Prima Materia, the unformed world that exists prior to any understanding or differentiation of its contents. Jung also believed that the symbol was an excellent analogy for the circular movement of the alchemical opus (and his own brand of psychotherapy).

* [[Psychopomp]]: One of many psychic phenomena that Jung studied. In his book Memories, Dreams, Reflections, one can read about the vision Jung experienced after having a heart attack at age 69 in which he flies out into space, sheds his mortal being, and sees a 'gigantic dark block. An entrance led into a small antechamber. To the right of the entrance, a black Hindu sat silently in lotus posture upon a stone bench. He wore a white gown, and I knew he expected me.' Jung was prepared to leave the mortal world but to his great annoyance his doctor flew up into space and made him turn back. The doctor did not return.

* [[Rule of Symbolism]]: He wrote whole books on the subject. He hypothesized that the unconscious psyche had a natural tendency to create such symbols, the roots of dreams and mythologies, as a way of communicating things to the Ego that were just outside its areas of understanding.

* [[Shadow Archetype]]: Jung is the Trope Namer. The Shadow is one of elements of Jung's conception of the unconscious. The confrontation with the Shadow (also called the Nigredo) is one of the first steps in Jungian psychotherapy.

* [[We Used to Be Friends]]: Jung and Freud

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