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Carl Jung

Running head: PERSONALITY THEORIST PAPER

Carl Jung
Michael Elder
University of Phoenix

Abstract
This paper is a brief look at Carl Jung.   Starting with some of his more famous theories on personality, I look into the theories I found to be most interesting and most believably real.   A short portion deals with Jung and Freud, there split, and the consequences of that split. Lastly, how does one apply this at work?   Would it benefit our company to use these principles at our shop?

Carl Jung Theorist Paper
“VOCATUS ATQUE NON VOCATUS DEUS ADERIT”
(Summoned or not, the god will be there)
The above quote is an archetype that was written at the top of the entrance to the Jung home.   Carl Jung believed archetypes or unconscious universal thoughts and ideas, were shared in the collective unconscious.   It is these archetypes which help us to form our own: ideas, realities, fantasies, which are based on these unlearned and yet shared building blocks.   An example of this is creation. “Consider the theory of biological evolution. Man's ancestors emerge from the seas, and they in turn emerged from a cosmic soup of DNA. The majority of creation myths also begin with the same image of man emerging from primordial oceans.”(Jung’s archetypes)   How is it possible that a majority of myth, without the use of the internet, could have been written in such a similar way?   Is this the condition on the unconscious collective?   Why does “dark” seem always a representation of evil and bad and “light” represent good and just? Theories such as this as well as Jung’s global travels to study different cultures and peoples, his love of symbols and mythology, is what I find to be most interesting about Carl Jung.
Carl Jung was an admirer of Sigmund Freud, and later in his life, he worked closely and traveled with Freud.   As the two began to delve deeper into each others dreams and thought, it seems Freud began to feel almost as though Jung was beginning to pass him as an analyst...