Jung often used dream analysis and free association to better understand his clients
Jung often
used dream analysis and free association to better understand his clients. Instead of analyzing a dream, you are going to analyze an imagery.
Initial Thread: First, listen to the following mental imagery scene
An Imagined House
A transcript can be accessed
hereAfter you have finished creating a mental image of your house, take a blank sheet of paper and draw your house. You may have to complete a couple of drawings to get a full depiction of your house.
In your initial thread within your assigned group’s discussion board forum, share your pictures with your group and allow them to analyze your house using Jung’s concepts. Your house (and car) are often seen as symbols of yourself. So your imagined house represents psychological/personality aspects.
Replies: In your assigned group discussion board forum, you will reply to each of your group members’ posts at least once. You will analyze their initial thread and classify the person based on Jung’s personality types. You must explain and justify your response.
When analyzing, pay attention to such details as:
- how the house appears on the inside as opposed to the outside;
- what can and cannot be found inside the house;
- how one gets into the house;
- what’s inside the “secret” room, colors, textures;
- how space is experienced; and
- is there a recurrent theme throughout the images?
All of these details may have symbolic significance.
Now, based on their house, can you classify the person based on Jung’s personality types? Jung combined the two attitudes of introversion and extraversion with the four functions of sensation, intuition, thinking, and feeling to form the eight psychological types, as follows:
- The sensing introvert—one who is artistic and emphasizes subjective experiences.
- The intuiting introvert—one who looks for new insights within him- or herself and is a dreamer.
- The thinking introvert—one who tries to understand subjective ideas and is a philosopher.
- The feeling introvert—one who bases judgments on subjective feelings and is a nonconformist.
- The sensing extravert—one who tries to see the external world as it is and is realistic.
- The intuiting extravert—one who looks for new possibilities outside of him- or herself and is an opportunist.
- The thinking extravert—one who tries to understand facts in the world and is a rational thinker.
- The feeling extravert—one who emphasizes conforming judgments and is sociable, but flighty.
Your initial thread is due by 11:59 p.m. (CT) on Thursday and your replies are due by 11:59 p.m. (CT) on Sunday of Module/Week 3.
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