55 definitions
The book's index
Experimental Researches
44 concepts · 55 definitions
- complex5
- amnesia2
- association2
- association test2
- attention2
- memory2
- neurosis2
- psychogalvanic reflex2
- attachment1
- autonomy1
- child1
- constellation1
- cure1
- education1
- ego1
- egoism1
- emotion1
- epilepsy1
- euphemism1
- everyday life1
- exhaustion1
- family1
- feeling1
- forgetting1
- guilt1
- illness1
- intelligence1
- mind1
- multiple personality1
- parents1
- possession1
- projected jealousy1
- reaction-time1
- repetition1
- resistance1
- schizophrenia1
- screen memory1
- stimulus-word1
- suggestion1
- symbol1
- symptom1
- talisman1
- will1
- wound1
A Complex (n.) is the term Jung and Riklin introduced for a "personal matter" behind disturbances in the association test: a collection of ideas held together by a common emotional tone, usually distressing and alluded to symbolically.
Complex (n.) are, in Jung's image, the spectacles on one's own nose: every mind holds much that is unadmitted and so unconscious, and whoever claims to stand above his complexes does not see what he looks through.
A Complex (n.) is, as Jung wrote in 1906, one of the higher psychic units, like the ego-complex, round which all memorable material is grouped; everyone has several, they form the background of consciousness, and they constellate all thinking and acting.
A Complex (n.) is as universal as an emotion: nobody is without one, so nothing a person does is impersonal — not even a guarded or careless string of words.
Amnesia (n.) in miniature appears in the word test: forgetting your own answer to a loaded word is brief embarrassment in the normal, arbitrary blankness in hysterics, a wall in catatonics.
Amnesia (n.) for an unpleasant event often looks like unwillingness to remember; in severe hysteria the complex is stronger than the conscious will and acts like a second, stronger personality to which the ego is subject.
Association (n.) is not really what the association test records: it captures a linguistic reaction, an outward symptom of hidden connections that can be reconstructed only with care.
Association (n.) tells who you are: "Tell me how you associate," said Weygandt, "and I'll tell you who you are."
The Association test (n.) proved at Zurich that the first word that comes to mind is never random: the replies are lawfully set by the person's own ideas.
The Association test (n.) is a delicate tool in criminal diagnosis, Jung warned: promising but fit only for experts, lest drastic failures discredit it.
Attention (n.) that falls — through distraction, fatigue, alcohol or mania — blunts our associations, from meaningful inner links to mere external and sound ones.
Attention (n.) is, in Jung and Riklin's word-association work, the cardinal factor that directs and modifies association, a complicated mechanism linking it by countless threads to all other psychic and bodily phenomena, and the first to react in abnormal states.
A Memory (n.) of terror, like a house fire, is many images held together by one emotional tone, whose vibrations last for weeks — a faint unaccountable unease by day, and dreams by night.
Memory (n.) of a complex is complete, even sharper than normal, yet will not deliver on demand: the complex keeps its material to itself.
Neurosis (n.) of psychic origin always has its cause in a complex with an unusually strong emotional charge that, given a certain disposition, fetters the whole person.
Neurosis (n.) always contains the dark side of one's closest relationship: a husband's points at his wife, a single person's at a lover or parents.
A Psychogalvanic reflex (n.) depends not on a stimulus's physical strength but on attention and its power to call up associations, usually unconscious; a schoolboy's old society whistle-call moved the needle far more than an ordinary whistle.
The Psychogalvanic reflex (n.) is a change in the skin's electrical resistance that rises with feeling-toned associations, so a galvanometer coupled with the association test makes the emotional charge of a complex visible, as with a teetotaller's hidden drunken crime.
A Child (n.) is moulded not by pious precepts but by its parents' hidden conflicts, worries and repressed wishes, seeping into a mind soft as wax.
Repetition (n.) gives a complex away: a man who chose "Paris" as his meaningless stock answer kept saying it, and months later admitted a moving experience there.