Without hesitation, name the animal that you saw first. And you will understand a lot about yourself.
Carl Jung used association tests as a lie detector. Because they require an instant reaction and do not give the subject the opportunity to think about what he saw. Now, for the same reason, we will try to extract information from your subconscious, which in ordinary life, as a rule, is hidden even from you. Relax, trust your subconscious, look at the image and remember the symbol that you noticed first. An association test based on the excellent sense of humor of our readers.
Which animal did you see first?
Cat
This speaks of your reluctance to accept the onset of the work week, longing for a vacation and a desire to bring your lunch break closer. And the end of the working day is better. After all, you can finally return home and comfortably sit in a chair with your favorite book or TV series.
Dog
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Now you feel the support of your friends and with such help are ready to break any problem like Tuzik's rag. The fighting spirit is a good thing. But approach the problem with a cool head to see if you can solve it alone. After all, those around them change plans too often. And you constantly forget about it, because you yourself have never let anyone down.
a lion
You are irresistible! You are often told about this, right? Is it because of a new haircut? You don't need a new haircut to feel your best, though. There is something in you that attracts the eyes, arouses respect and admiration. And envy. But don't judge them harshly, because you actually sometimes act a little arrogant. Try to look at others as equals, not downright
Horse
At the moment, something is restricting you and restricting your freedom. You may be chasing your boss through the corridors of the office, shouting “On vacation! I want to go on vacation! Calm down. Everyone wants to go there. But now you need to pull yourself together and show the endurance and performance for which the animal you have chosen is famous for.
Swan
Are you in Love. This is the reason why everyone around seems great, including the cashier, who is not only dissatisfied with his personal life, but also the personal life of every customer in line. This is a wonderful period, try to stretch it, if not for a couple of months, then at least until your salary.
Penguin
How did you manage it? There is no penguin! Take another look. See the penguin anyway? Your rich imagination is to blame for this, which delights your friends and perplexes people who come across you for the first time.
What animal did you see? Share your test results in the comments. And we are very interested in whether Jung was right in your case?
On July 26, 1875, the world famous Swiss psychiatrist, the founder of one of the directions of depth and analytical psychology, Carl Gustav Jung was born.
“Jung's mother could, while doing some housework, suddenly fall into a trance and make strange words and sounds, like the pythia. This "demonic mother, who in her exalted state could converse with spirits and astral bodies," greatly influenced the spiritual development of her son."
An uncommunicative, withdrawn teenager, he never made friends for himself. It was difficult to adapt to the external environment, often faced with a lack of understanding of others, preferring to communication immersion in the world of his own thoughts. In short, it represented a classic case of what he himself later called "introversion."
He not only heard unknown voices, played like a child, or wandered around the garden in endless conversations with an imaginary interlocutor, notes one of the biographers in his book about Jung, but also seriously believed that his house was inhabited by ghosts.
Jung became more and more withdrawn into himself. At some point, he even feared a mental disorder. In this disastrous situation, Jung decided to give vent to what was constantly undermining him from the inside. So he began his voluntary descent into the abyss of the unconscious.
Mark Evgenievich Burno writes that Carl Jung suffered from fur-coat schizophrenia, and also that at the age of about 40 he had a paraphrenic disorder, and he devoted the rest of his life to thinking over, generalizing this complex paraphrenic-colorful material, brilliant in its content, which turned out in psychosis. Observing his acutely psychotic fairy-tale visions-experiences, studying them, Jung discovered the existence of a collective unconscious with archetypes at its core, created the developing world-famous school of "analytical psychology".
Fromm believed that “An outstanding example … of a necrophilic character was K. G. Jung. In the autobiography published after his death, there are numerous confirmations of this. In his dreams, corpses, blood and murder often appeared … However, on the other hand, Jung was an unusually creative person, and creativity is the exact opposite of necrophilia. He resolved his inner conflict by balancing the destructive forces in himself with his desires and ability to heal and making his interest in the past, the dead, and destruction a subject of brilliant reasoning.
The titles of his works can be enumerated endlessly, but we will name the most popular: "The relationship between the self and the unconscious" (1928), "Psychology and religion" (1940), "Psychology and education" (1946), "Images of the unconscious" (1950), "Symbolism of the Spirit" (1953), "On the Origins of Consciousness" (1954).
Most of all, perhaps, Jung is famous for his doctrine of the collective unconscious, based on the interpretation of the same images that arise in different patients. He called them archetypes, evolving for millennia and underlying many elements of human psychology, including myths and dreams. Thus, the scientist denied the influence of society, education, etc. on personality development, speaking about the presence of a clear innate structure of the psyche and about the memory of ancestors, which is inherited.
Also of particular interest is the structure of the psyche according to Jung. In contrast to the traditional "Freudian" three-storey structure (super-I, I and It), in Jung it consists of 5 elements: I, Anima, Person, Shadow and Self. Anima - the unconscious opposite principle (feminine in a man's psyche or masculine (Animus) in a woman's psyche) - is the basis of moods, reactions, impulses, everything that is mentally spontaneous. A persona is the mask that a person unconsciously puts on himself in order to impress others and hide his true nature, i.e. artificial person that we want to appear. A shadow is everything dark, dirty, unpleasant that lives inside us and that we hide somewhere deep in ourselves. The self is an integral person, in whose psyche all structures of the psyche are in relative or complete harmony with each other,a certain ideal of self-improvement.
The concept of psychological types has also gained fame: extraverted and introverted, with a predominance of the functions of thinking, feeling, sensation or intuition.
In his work, Jung dealt not only with the problems of individual psychiatric practice, but also with the global problems of human existence in society. With his ideas, he had a significant impact not only on psychiatry and psychology, but also on anthropology, ethnology, cultural studies, the comparative history of religion, pedagogy, and literature.
The future scientist was born in Switzerland into the family of a pastor of the Reformed Church, his grandfather and great-grandfather were doctors, and the talented young man decided to continue his medical work. He entered the medical faculty of the University of Basel. From 1900 to 1906 he worked as an assistant to the renowned psychiatrist E. Bleuler at a psychiatric clinic in Zurich.
Then, in 1907, his own ascent as a luminary of medicine began: collaboration with Sigmund Freud, a leading role in the psychoanalytic movement, presidency in the International Psychoanalytic Society, the role of editor in a psychoanalytic journal, lecturing at universities.
In 1911, the scientist broke with the circle of "apologists" of psychoanalysis and abandoned this technique in his practice, developing his own theory of "analytical psychology". In the future, he develops his own methods, is an active participant and one of the inspirers of the influential international intellectual community "Eranos".
In 1935, Jung became professor of psychology at the Swiss Polytechnic School in Zurich, as well as founder and president of the Swiss Society for Practical Psychology, and teaches in Zurich and Basel.
In 1948, the CG Jung Institute was organized in Zurich. Supporters of his method created the Society for Analytical Psychology in England and similar societies in the United States (New York, San Francisco, and Los Angeles), as well as in several European countries. Jung died at his home in Kusnacht on June 6, 1961.
Jung and the construction of the Tower
In 1922 Jung acquired an estate in Bollingen, on the shores of Lake Zurich, and for many years he was engaged in the construction of the Tower there. Completed in 1956, the Tower, from an initially primitive round stone dwelling, has taken on the appearance of a small castle with two towers, an office, a fenced yard and a boat dock. In his memoirs, Jung described the process of building the Tower as a study of the structure of the human psyche, embodied in stone.
Jung and Nazism
In 1933-1939, Jung published The Journal of Psychotherapy and Related Fields, which supported the Nazis in their national and domestic policies to purify the race. For example, excerpts from Mein Kampf were the obligatory prologue to any publication. However, after the end of the war, Jung in every possible way refused to edit this magazine, explaining his loyalty to Hitler by the demands of the time. But, unlike another Nazi scientist, Heidegger, he was not officially convicted and he was allowed to continue teaching at the university.
Jung and Spiritualism
Jung's maternal grandfather and grandmother - Samuel and Augusta Preiswerk - practiced spiritualism and were considered "clairvoyants." As a child, as a guest at their estate, the future scientist often witnessed the traditional practice of communicating with the spirits of the dead. Later, he himself began to arrange seances, and his daughter Agatha became a professional medium. All this could not but affect the interests and activities of Jung in general. Often in his work, he turned to the magical and mythological heritage, alchemical texts of the Middle Ages, and among his methods of psychotherapeutic practice, entering a trance was key. Jung was an unambiguous mystic close to occultism, as evidenced by the mention in his memoirs of the "winged mentor Philemon", visits to his home by "dead crusaders", etc.
Jung and dreams
Before Jung began to theorize the meaning and function of dreams, he analyzed about 67,000 dreams. Interestingly, the scientist actively used his own dreams in his scientific research. So, before the First World War, Jung had the same dream for several weeks - as if blood was coming out of the ground and rising higher and higher, flooding everything around. Trying to escape, he runs from this stream into the mountains, but the sea of blood comes up there, and stumps of human bodies float in it. The scientist, disturbed by a recurring nightmare, was about to turn to one of his fellow psychiatrists, when suddenly world war broke out and the dreams stopped. Jung later found out that similar pictures were dreamed of by many people on the eve of the war. Thus, the "collective unconscious" discovered by him lived in anticipation of war,the very idea of which seemed to be in the air, and foresaw the future horrors of mass destruction of people.
Jung and Freud
There are many views on the reasons for the high-profile event in the world of psychiatry in 1913 - the breakup of Jung and Freud. Many researchers speak of divergences in scientific views, but there is a version of the Jung-Freud-Sabina Spielrein love triangle, a native of the Russian Empire, a patient of both luminaries of medicine, who pulled them to different ends of the barricades. This story was taken as the basis of the plot by the American director David Cronenberg in his film "A Special Method".
Jung and Picasso
Jung has a sensational work about the famous avant-garde artist Picasso, in which he, analyzing his work from the point of view of psychiatric practice, calls the artist close to "schizophrenic" types. This article caused a great stir, turning many Picasso fans away from the scientist. Also under the hot hand of a psychiatrist was the famous writer James Joyce ("Ulysses").
Jung and death
Strange events marked the death of the great Swiss psychoanalyst and seer: at the moment he died, lightning struck his favorite tree in a garden in Kusnacht near Zurich, and his friend Laurens van der Post had a dream in which Jung was waving to him, as if going to way, and says: "We will see you." The next day, Van der Post learned that Jung's death occurred at about the same time as the dream occurred. A few years later, Van der Post was making a film about Jung in Kusnacht, and at the moment when he was talking about the death of a scientist in front of the camera, lightning struck the same tree again.