The Development of Personality

C.G. Jung, Gerhard Adler, R.F.C. Hull

• Publisher: Routledge
• Year: 2014
• Print ISBN: 9780415109345
• eBook ISBN: 9781317533498
• Topic: Psychology
• Subtopic: Movements in Psychology
• Index: Psychology

Though Jung's main researches have centred on the subject of individuation as an adult ideal he has a unique contribution to make to the psychology of childhood.

Jung repeatedly underlined the importance of the psychology of parents and teachers in a child's development and he emphasized that an unsatisfactory psychological relationship between parents may be an important cause of disorders in childhood. He maintained that all real education of children needs teachers who not only know how to learn but who can also develop their own personalities. Jung devotes a large part of the book to expounding his views on these important subjects. There is also an outline of the theory of child development, a delightful snapshot from the life of a girl called Anna and her parents, and a stimulating discussion of marriage as a psychological relationship. Finally there is a chapter on child development and individuation.

INDEX

A

abaissement du niveau mental, 114

ability, mathematical, 152

abnormality(-ies): and disease, 68; psychic, 151

abreaction, 94

absent-mindedness, 138

abstraction, 34

adaptation, 55f, 171, 198; collective, and individual, 150; external, 92f; in marriage, 194; to own nature, 92; unconditional, 120

Adler, Alfred, 3, 13n, 81, 82, 113; and Freud, reconciliation of, 82; psychology of, 123

adolescence: homosexuality in, 159, 162; introversion in, 13

adult(s): child in, 169f; continuation schools for, 57; educability of, 57; upholder of contemporary culture, 58; a. existence, meaning of, 168; a. ideal, 169

advice, 131, 173; by doctor, 96

Aesculapius, 176

aestheticism, 156; see also instinct(s); interest

affection, rivalry in, 13

alchemist, 107

Aldrich, Roberts, 63

altar (dream-image), 161

ambition(s), 132; love and, 127; parents’, 142; — unfulfilled, 171; see also mother(s)

America: civic life in, 135; see also South America

Amfortas’ wound, 115f

amnesia, systematic, 109

analogies, thinking in, 24

analysis: anamnestic stage, 95, 100; of children, 75, see also child(ren); of dreams, see dream-analysis; of unconscious, see unconscious; see also psychotherapy

analyst, 94; see also doctor

analytical psychology, 50; aim of, 92; and education, see education; and experimental p., 91; nature of, 91; and normal p., 68; and teacher, 57, 74

anamnesis, 95f, 162; anamnestic analysis, 95, 100; a. method, 95, 97

ancestors, the child’s true progenitors, 44

Andersen, Hans, 170

angel(s), 24; children as, 9f, 20, 28

anger, see rage(s)

anima/animus, 198f; projections, 198ff; anima type, 199

animal(s): aesthetic instincts in, 83; little, dream of, 21f; a. magnetism, 66; a. state, and childhood, compared, 53

animus, see anima/animus Anna, see Jung, Carl Gustav, CASES IN SUMMARY; imaginary twin sister, 129, 131

antinomies, and unconscious, 114

anxiety, 101; a. dreams, see dreams; a. states, 77; — substitutes for conscious suffering, 101

Apollo, 186

appetite, loss of, 123

aptitudes: mental, 152; unconscious, 100

archetype(s), 10, 45, 125n, 199, 200; in dreams, 54; archetypal images, 106, 159, 161, 198; a. material, 119; see also various headings for individual archetypes, e.g., father, Magna Mater, rebirth, etc.

Archimedean point, 88, 89

army: Jung’s experience as medical officer...

Table of contents

• Cover
• Title Page
• Copyright Page
• Table of Contents
• EDITORIAL NOTE
• TRANSLATOR’S NOTE
• I. Psychic Conflicts in a Child
• II. Introduction to Wickes’s Analyse der Kinderseele
• III. Child Development and Education
• IV. Analytical Psychology and Education
• V. The Gifted Child
• VI. The Significance of the Unconscious in Individual Education
• VII. The Development of Personality
• VIII. Marriage as a Psychological Relationship
• BIBLIOGRAPHICAL NOTE
• INDEX