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Considerations on the Empirical Adequacy of Jung’s Theory of Psychoanalysis

Shirazi, Maral | 2021

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  1. Type of Document: M.Sc. Thesis
  2. Language: Farsi
  3. Document No: 54087 (42)
  4. University: Sharif University of Technology
  5. Department: Philosophy of Science
  6. Advisor(s): Hosseini Sarvary, Hassan
  7. Abstract:
  8. Carl Jung's analytical psychology is a psychoanalytic theory that has been established with the assumption of the existence of a collective and inheritable unconscious containing archetypes. The archetypes are psychic patterns that have evolved throughout human history and are inherited by human infants. Repressing these innate and universal properties can cause psychic problems for humans. Those repressed innate properties could emerge indirectly to keep the mental balance, but this may cause problems due to being out of conscious control of the individual. According to Jung's claim, remembering and accepting these repressed identities and then integrating the conscious and unconscious attitudes with each other could help people with psychic disorders. The goal of this research is to investigate the empirical evidence for this claim. In this research first, we focused on the validity of the concept of the innate archetype from the perspective of modern genetics, then we explored the clinical evidence confirming the patients' wellbeing treated by Jungian therapy. Briefly, based on our investigations, the existence of innate and inherited archetypes cannot be verified empirically but we support the existence of some truthlike constituents in the theory of analytical psychology
  9. Keywords:
  10. Archetype ; Effectiveness Coefficient ; Analytical Psychology ; Truthlike Constituent ; Collective Unconscious

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