What is analytical psychology?
Analytical psychology is an evolving school of analysis, which began by teaching, writing and observing Carl Gustav Jung. Today there are newer methods of analytical psychology, including post-Jungian developmental and archetypal psychology. Regardless of which form is practiced, some basic prerequisites about the human psyche are usually shared.
Jung worked with Sigmund Freud, but he began to have disagreements about how Freud saw individuals, unconsciousness and motivation of people. Freud had a strong bias that the individuals were motivated by deep -rooted suppression of sexual material, and instead Jung believed that people were inherently motivated to grow as humans, and to align neurotism based on suppressed, not necessarily sexual, unconscious material. Freud also wanted to elaborate people from their dependence on religion where Jung perceived religion and mythos as a vital part of the collective unconscious: something that all people have been connected andEveryone could relate.
According to Jung's view of unconsciousness, people have both personal unconscious and the basic collective unconscious all people share. Especially therapy to achieve individualization is a job that harms personal unconsciousness with themselves and strives for the integrity of the self. Personal unconscious is considered dynamic and potentially worrying; He is constantly revealed through a person if he observes it, and what is ignored in it can lead to difficulties or neuroses.
Specifically, the personal unconscious contains several archetypes with which people in therapy (analyzes) discover and in many ways close peace. These include Anima or Animus, which are the female or male parties of the person. The man has an anima and a woman has an animus. The shadow is another important aspect of the unconscious of the unconscious, containing all the deeply suppressed material in the psyche. When analyzes and with these archetypes did not make peace, neuroses are common.
In the practice of classical analytical psychology, analytical psychology may lie on the couch or sit towards the therapist and, above all, talk to the therapist. Hypnosis could be used and dream analysis can play an important role. As this field has evolved, other methods are used to evoke unconsciousness, such as Sandray's work, various ways of art treatment and creative writing. No matter what type of analytical psychology is practiced, the involvement between the analyst and the analysis is similar. Analysands speak, analysts listen, question and can interpret. The relationship is characterized by a friendly interest of analytics and the desire to promote analysis.
Many people are familiar with analytical psychology because at the end of the 20th century scientists like Joseph Campbell popularized it. Campbell wrote AMS, especially about the hero's journey and how this topic is repeated in the most famous myths. He claimed that all people are mentally on the way of heroes and repeatedly encounter certain characters/archetypes. Analytical psychoThe logy can be freely described as a treatment that helps people recognize the way inside themselves to meet and know all aspects of themselves.