Essay A Description of Analytic Psychology

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1. Briefly describe Analytic Psychology www.jungclub-london.org C. G. Jung Analytical Psychology Club London. "Who looks outside, dreams, who looks inside, awakens," The term 'psychoanalyst' is currently used to cover all those facts and theories presented in the works of Freud, Jung, and Adler. However it is often recommended that it should be applied only to the theory and practice of Freud and his disciples, and that the theory and practice of Jung should be designated 'Analytical Psychology', and that the theory and practice of Adler should be designated 'Individual Psychology'. Psychoanalysis' in this broader sense covers both a set of theories and a set of practices.

He believed that as these zones matured neurologically, they activated the emotional world of the child (largely resident in the unconscious), and in the course of doing so, created the basis for later emotional health or mental illness in adulthood. The stages are as follows: Oral Stage of Psychosexual Development (ages 0-18 months) - At this stage, the infant is focused upon getting pleasure from its mouth, especially through breastfeeding, which may be a source of satisfaction or frustration for the baby. Anal Stage of Psychosexual Development (18 months - 3 1/2 years) - At this stage, the young child is fixated upon its own process of eliminating faeces, experiencing pleasure in the anal regions of the body, and reacting emotionally to attempts by parents or other caregivers to control this physical function through toilet training. Phallic Stage of Psychosexual Development (3 1/2 years - 6 years) - At this stage, the penis or vagina is the source of erotic satisfaction for the child, and he or she fantasizes about getting pelvic pleasure with the opposite sex parent and aggressively doing away with the same sex parent (the Oedipal Crisis). Latency Stage of Psychosexual Development (6 years -