d called him his crown-prince. Theirrelationship ended when Jung wrote a book called "Symbols ofTransformation." Jung disagreed with Freud's fundamental idea that a symbolis a disguised representation of a repressed wish. I will go into thatlater. After splitting up with Freud, Jung had a 2 year period ofnon-productivity, but then he came out with his "Psychological Types," afamous work. He went on several trips to learn about primitive societiesand archetypes to Africa, New Mexico to study Pueblo Indians, and to Indiaand Ceylon to study eastern philosophy. He studied religious and occultbeliefs like I Ching, a Chinese method of fortune telling. Alchemy wasalso one of his interests. His book, "Psychology and Alchemy," publishedin 1944 is among his most important writings. He studied what all thistold about the human mind. One of his methods was word association, whichis when a person is given a series of words and asked to respond to them.Abnormal response or hesitation can mean that the person has a complexabout that word. His basic belief was in complex or analytical psychology. The goal ispsychosynthesis, or the unification and differentiation of the psyche(mind). He believed that the mind started out as a whole and should staythat way. That answered structural, dynamic, developmental questions. Iwill attempt to restate the major ideas and terms in this book in apseudo-outline. It will make the understanding a bit more clear. STRUCTURE--------- Jung said that there are three levels of mind. Conscious, PersonalSubconscious, and Collective Subconscious. The conscious level serves fourfunctions. The following are the functions of people (not types!): A. Thinking: connecting ideas in ordered strings.B. Feeling: evaluating ideas upon feelings about them.C. Sensing: wanting to get experiences.D. Intuiting: following unfounded ideas. A & B are called rational, and C & D are called irrational. If theydon't make much sense, they will be expla...
