Psych of Personality

Opposites/Conflict are key movment and progress. If not for opposite tendencies existing within the personality, a person's personality would stagnate and he or she would not be capable of achieving self actualization

• First law of thermodynamics (conservation of energy principle)
• energy is never lost but will always reappear in another form

If two bodies are charged with different amounts of energy, the energy will flow from the more highly charged body to the body with the lower charge until equilibrium is achieved. This leads to a balancing of opposites, and insures that all parts of the personality contribute in defining who one is.

The present can be explained in terms of one's future goals. Unlike Freud, Jung believed that in understanding the motivation behind a person's behavior, the future aspirations of an individual (especially as one got older) were as or more important than one's past history.

the center of the conscious mind, involved in thinking, feeling, perceiving, and the subsequent overt behaviors which occurs withing the realm of conscious activity

ego and persona

The persona is a mask a person presents to the outside world. The persona is the social self, or the public roles one assumes. It can be conceptualized as the collective conscious, insofar as a person may exhibit the same persona as a persona of other people. According to Jung, personas that people assume are archetypes that originates in the collective unconscious. A person can have more than one persona that he or she may employ in different situations.

compensatory he meant that the unconscious was a source of ideas and feelings that were not present in our conscious life. Thus the unconscious serves as a source of balance within our personality

the unconscious could give us information regarding our future prospects in the world. (As noted in Section I, Jung also viewed dreams, which were a product of the unconscious, as prospective and compensatory)

It was a product of the unconscious as prospective and compensatory

• 1. the personal unconscious 
• 2. The shadow
• 3. Complexes
• 4. the collective unconscious

repository of suppressed and repressed materials. It is similar to Freud's preconscious and unconscious parts of the personality

esides in the upper layer of the personal unconscious. In most people it represents that part of the personality which contains one’s animalistic/primitive instincts. It is the "dark side" of human nature, and thus it is usually something one represses or tries to keep hidden. On the other hand, the shadow of evil people contains their good side

a core of memories, experiences, and feelings that constellate together in the personal unconscious. Complexes have constellating power — in other words, they can increase in size and strength by attracting new memories, ideas, feelings, etc.

is a repository of racial memories — i.e., memories common to all members of the human race. It is transpersonal, in that it is shared by all people. The collective unconscious contains ideas, beliefs, and feelings that have accumulated within the human psyche over time.

Archetypes are inherited predispositions with regard to apprehending existence, or, alternatively, can be defined as a priori categories of possible function. Archetypes are potentials that are activated/stimulated by specific stimuli/experiences human beings encounter. Typically an archetype (which Jung also referred to as a primordial image) is a universal idea or thought which has associated with it a great deal of emotion. Archetypes have been imprinted on the human psyche as a result of certain experiences and thoughts which have been repeated throughout the history of the human race. It should be noted that archetypes are never directly observed, but instead are expressed through symbols