Carl Jung Course - His Life and Work

Overview

What you will learn

Carl Jung is regarded as one of the foremost thinkers of the Twentieth Century introducing such concepts as extraversion and introversion, the collective unconscious and archetypes into everyday discourse.

This Carl Jung Course - His Life and Work offered by University of Sydney will discuss:

• The influences of childhood and family background on Jung’s psychology

• Jung’s professional activities

• The split with Freud

• Jung’s "descent into the unconscious"

• The psyche

• Consciousness and the ego

• The personal unconscious

• The collective unconscious and the archetypes

• Complexes

• Psychological types

• The attitudes of Extraversion and Introversion

• The functions of sensation, intuition, thinking and feeling

• Dealing with the inferior function

• Libido as life energy

• The canalisation of psychic energy

• The progression and regression of libido

• The concept of Individuation

• The stages of life

• Dream psychology

• Jung’s use of alchemical symbolism

• The place of symbols in psychic life

• Synchronicity

• The schools within Jungian Psychology

• Applications to psychotherapy

• Contemporary archetype theory