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Here’s the same terrain, Elaine, but trimmed into clear points without losing the shape of Jung’s ideas.

Carl Jung’s Analytical Psychology (Key Points)

• Psyche: The complete human mind — conscious and unconscious together.
• Consciousness: The small, illuminated part of the psyche; includes the ego.
• Ego: The centre of consciousness, the “I” that thinks and decides. Not the whole self.
• Personal unconscious: Your own forgotten memories, subliminal perceptions, repressed material, and emotional residues.
• Collective unconscious: A deeper, universal layer of the psyche shared by all humans. Contains inherited psychological structures.

Archetypes
• Universal patterns or “blueprints” of experience in the collective unconscious.
• Not images themselves but forces that produce symbolic images in dreams, myths, art.
• Examples: Shadow, Persona, Anima/Animus, Hero, Mother, Trickster, Wise Old Person, Self.

Major Archetypal Structures
• Persona: The social mask you present to the world.
• Shadow: The rejected or disowned parts of oneself; must be integrated for maturity.
• Anima/Animus: The inner opposite (feminine side in men, masculine in women — now understood more fluidly).
• Self: The central archetype representing unity, wholeness, and the fullest version of a person.

Individuation
• Jung’s term for psychological growth.
• The lifelong process of integrating conscious and unconscious aspects of the psyche.
• Involves confronting the shadow, loosening the persona, and aligning the ego with the Self.
• Goal: wholeness, not perfection.

Dreams and Symbols
• Dreams express unconscious material through symbolic imagery shaped by archetypes.
• Symbolism reveals the psyche’s attempts at balance, growth, or conflict resolution.

Differences from Freud
• Unconscious is not just a repository of repressed desires; it is also creative and symbolic.
• Greater emphasis on spirituality, myth, and meaning-making.
• Psychology is not only a science of symptoms but also a study of human potential.

Applications and Influence
• Depth psychology, psychotherapy, dream interpretation.
• Literature, art analysis, religious studies, and creativity research.
• Modern therapy uses his ideas metaphorically rather than literally inherited.

If you want, I can also summarise the psyche structure or each archetype separately for study notes.