Jungian Psychology - Ms：荣格心理学硕士. Bistolas English.ppt

Psychoanalytic Theory2Why study psychology in English Class?Hint: it’s not because in her subconscious, your teacher wants you to suffer.?Jung offers literary critics a lot to think about as they read the psychological experiences of characters in literature. ?We’ll get to his concept of archetypes, which has literary roots as well as implications for our reading?Perhaps most importantly for our study of Fifth Business, Robertson Davies held a lifelong interest for Jung’s work. There are many parallels between Davies’ fictional characters and Jung’s concepts of the PsychologyCarl Jung was a psychologist trained by Sigmund Freud, but veered off from aspects of Freud’s teachings to form his own school of do you know about Freud? Make a list...Differences with Freud?Freud believed that we have a conscious and an unconscious, and that like an iceberg, there’s way more beneath the surface than above it. ?Freud believed that we need to understand and know our UNCONSCIOUS – the drives that guide our thoughts and actions that we do not perceive on the surface, but that guide us and reveal themselves in unconscious ways like dreams?Specifically, Jung differed with Freud’s insistence on infantile sexuality (he thought Freud placed too much emphasis on sex)?They differed as well on the method of therapy and their concept of the soul?Jung believes that the soul is mysterious... This idea is important in Fifth Business, so we’ll discuss it later...Oedipus – the myth:In Greek mythology, Oedipus is the man who was fated to kill his father and marry his mother. He was a good guy, but because did not know his identity, he took the wrong path in life. Once on that path, heroic characteristics couldn’t help him to escape his fate...6Effect of not knowing your identity and therefore being on the wrong path in your life:Freud: the plexFreud believed that all children go through an Oedipal phase in which children love their opposite-sex parent while the