Carl Jung Research Paper

Jung believed that a human being is deeply whole but most of us humans have lost touch with some of the most important parts of our selves. Through waking imagination and listening to the messages of our dreams, we can link and reintegrate our different parts. Life’s goal is individuation, the process of coming to know, giving expression to, and balancing the different components of the psyche. If we understand our uniqueness, we can forgo a process of individuation and start to understand our true self. Each individual human being has a specific calling and nature that is uniquely his or her own, and unless these are fulfilled through a combination of conscious and unconscious, the individual may become sick. 


Jung has concluded that every person has a story, and when we experience derangement, it’s due to the personal story being rejected. He expresses that healing and integration comes when the individual discovers or rediscovers their own personal story. 

Jung had an idea that what passed for normality was often the …show more content…
This may be because Jung didn’t write from the nonprofessional view and as such his ideas weren’t as greatly disseminated as Freud’s. This might also be because his ideas were a bit more obscure and mystical, and not as clearly explained. However, Jung’s work has also contributed to mainstream psychology in being that he was the first to classify the two major attitudes or angles of personality; extroversion and introversion. He also identified four basic functions, thinking, feeling, sensing, and intuiting. A basic ideology was that all products of the unconscious are symbolic and can be taken as messages to guide each individual. What is the dream or fantasy leading the person toward? The unconscious will live, and will move us, whether we like it or not. 
The aspect of the psyche is the source of creative ideas and new thoughts, along with producing meaningful