Carl Jung was born in Kesswyl, Thurgau, Switzerland on July 26, 1875.
His father was kind but weak, while his mother was an insecure woman but with two personalities: (a) kind and loving (b) harsh and aloof.
Jung was lonely at childhood making him introvert.
In 1906 he published The Psychology of Dementia Praecox, a psychoanalytic treatment of schizophrenia.
He first met Freud in 1907 and Freud regarded Jung as his son and they travelled and worked together that lasted until 1913.
Freud and Jung had an argument that ended their friendship. Freud considered it as the “Great Loss”.
Jung is the first president of International Psychoanalytic Society.
Jung established his own school of psychology named “Analytical Psychology”.
Jung begun the structure of personality and made the ego, personal unconscious and the collective unconscious.
Dynamics of Personality Carl Jung conceived that the personality or psyche as being a partially closed energy system. Energy from the outside sources must be added into the system and the system will only be perfect and stabilized if it is completely closed. He called psychic energy as the energy by which the work of personality is performed.
Psyche – refers to all psychological processes: thoughts, feelings, sensations, wishes, etc. It is also another term for personality.
Principle of Equivalence – states that if a particular value weakens the sum of the energy represented by the value will not be lost from the psyche but will reappear in a new value.
Principle of Entropy – states that the distribution of energy in the psyche seeks equilibrium and balance.
Structure of Personality
1. Ego – it is one’s conscious mind. It serves as the organized conscious mediator between the person and reality especially by functioning both in the perception of and adaptation to reality.
2. Personal unconscious – the material in the personal unconscious comes from the individual’s past. It consist f experiences that