Carl Jung believed the psyche was structured through the conscious, unconscious, and collective unconscious. The conscious includes thoughts and ideas, while the unconscious includes dreams. The psyche expresses itself through the body in physical symptoms. Jung mapped the psyche as having layers including consciousness, the ego with its five functions of stability, identity, cognition, executive functioning and reality testing, the personal unconscious containing complexes, and the deepest level of the collective unconscious containing archetypes represented through symbols. The body and psyche are interconnected, with the psyche expressing itself physically through somatization and the body influencing the psyche.

1. The Structure of the PsycheCarl JungB.A. Humanities Level 2/3

2. An Introduction to the psycheTo Jung the ‘Psyche’ mean the totality of All Psychic powers.The Psyche was structures through:1. Conscious

3. 2. Unconscious

4. 3. Collective UnconsciousConscious + Unconscious + Body +Psyche =

5. To Jung the Psyche wasn't split but it was infinitely part of one another.Jung believed the Psyche expressed itself through the following :Conscious: Thoughts, ideas, events and so on.Unconscious: DreamsBody: Bodily and psychomatic symptoms, for example Anxiety.

6. The Basic Map of the PsycheConsciousnessPersonal UnconsciousCollective Unconscious

7. The Basic Map of the PsycheBodyConsciousnessPersonal UnconsciousCollective Unconscious

8. Layers of the Psyche ConsciousnessThe part of us that is awake, thinks and remembers.The Structure of Consciousness is The EgoWithin the Ego lie 5 critical Layers:Stability Personality.Stability Identity.Cognition.Executive Functioning.Reality testing.

9. The Basic Map of the PsycheEGOConsciousness

10. Layers of the EGO

11. First Function: Stability PersonalityThe area where peoples personality generally remain the same.For example:In anticipation of meeting a friend we can generally anticipate how that person will be .

12. We hold a general sense of their personality.

13. What they like, what irritates them, what they dislike etc.Exceptions to this would include people who have Borderline Personality Disorder.People with BPD generally display Maladaptive assumption of belief systems about the world.

14. Inability to express feelings

15. Inability to connect or fuse with others

16. Impulsion

17. Inability to see themselves in a ration way.Second function : Stability IdentityOver time our ‘self identity’ becomes stable.We come to know ourselves - what we like dislike and how we will appear.For example, We come to realise that our identities do not change when we are asleep.When we awake the following morning we know we will look the same and not change during our sleep time.

18. Third function: CognitionThis area of the Ego helps us Process information and store memories.When I counsel I remember general thing s about my clients.

19. CBT Based in this area

20. In certain disorders we sadly realise how

21. Important this function is.Fourth function: Executive FunctioningOur ability to deal with the everyday demands of the world.For example:

22. We realise that we need to put our socks on before our shoes.

23. Thousand of such functions take place everyday.

24. They help us navigate the world.

25. Consider the ones that you have used to simply get here today....Fifth function: Reality TestingThe division between the conscious and the unconscious is more blurry than we believe.One of the markers to gage between the conscious and the unconscious is the Egos ability to employ reality testing.For example, we know we need to take the lift to the bottom floor of a tall building as we cant fly!Or We know that we need to wait for the car to stop before we get out!We rely on this function to get us through safely every day.People who experience altered states of consciousness:Alcohol/Drug dependency

26. High temperature/illness

27. Meditative states

28. Fatigue

29. Psychotic disorders, Psychotic DepressingThe Personal Unconscious

30. The Basic Map of the PsychePersonal Unconscious

31. Personal UnconsciousThe part of our unconscious that we access mostly.Personal unconscious is unique and mostly personal to each of us.Whereas the Collective unconscious (the next level) is shared by all humankind. This level contains complexesComplexes are clusters of feelings associated around a common theme.