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Jungian theories

ght Freud emphasis on sexual instincts on human behavior was a bit much, therefore, ending his friendship with his companion. During the last 50 years of Jung's life, he made trips to a variety of different countries. He expanded his knowledge on mythology and history by doing so and it resulted in the publication of his Psychological Types in 1921 (Encarta). Jung continued to write on his analytical psychology theories along with the relationship between religious beliefs and psychological therapy until his death on June 6, 1961 (http://www.eskimo.com/~dcs). Theories:Jung explains his theories in the psychological sense. He divided his theory into 3 core parts or psyches. First is the ego. This is the conscious state of every human, the personified traits and characteristics everyone shows to the world. "The second psyche is the personal unconscious" (Gannon, http://usd.edu/~tgannon/Jungbio.html). This division would include memories or recollections of past events. These images could easily be pictured in the minds of people, but have been stored for some odd reason. The Jung Society of Seattle (http://eskimo.com/~dcs/) says his third psyche is what separates his theories from others: his collective unconscious. This is the knowledge that everyone has that contains information that has been collected by everyone in the past, present and future. Jung based this speculation on experiences connected with dj vu and love at first sight. But more supportive to this idea of a collective unconscious is the creative parallels shared by artists in the fields of music, art, psychology, language, etc. They all partake in a spiritual or inner psyche that relates their knowledge to the understanding of (even) an abstract concept of immense complexity that result in equally and similar observations and opinions. Dr. George Boeree (http://ship.edu/~cgboeree/jung.html), while supporting the Jungian theories, gave a good example of this collective ...

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