Ciccarelli: Psychology_5 (5th Edition)
Ciccarelli: Psychology_5 (5th Edition)
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ISBN: 9780134477961
Author: Saundra K. Ciccarelli, J. Noland White
Publisher: PEARSON
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I know this is kind of a lot but plsssssss summarize this section. 

The ego
To Jung, the ego was the center of the field of consciousness, the part of
the psyche where our conscious awareness resides, our sense of identity
and existence. This part can be seen as a kind of "command HQ",
organizing our thoughts, feelings, senses, and intuition, and regulating
access to memory. It is the part that links the inner and outer worlds
together, forming how we relate to that which is external to us.
How a person relates to the external world is, according to Jung,
determined by their levels of extroversion or introversion and how they
make use of the functions of thinking, feeling, sensation, and intuition.
Some people have developed more of one or two of these facets than the
others, which shapes how they perceive the world around them.
The origin of the ego lies in the self archetype, where it forms over the
course of early development as the brain attempts to add meaning and
value to its various experiences.
The ego is just one small portion of the self, however; Jung believed that
consciousness is selective, and the ego is the part of the self that selects
the most relevant information from the environment and chooses a
direction to take based on it, while the rest of the information sinks into
the unconscious. It may, therefore, show up later in the form of dreams or
visions, thus entering into the conscious mind.
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Transcribed Image Text:The ego To Jung, the ego was the center of the field of consciousness, the part of the psyche where our conscious awareness resides, our sense of identity and existence. This part can be seen as a kind of "command HQ", organizing our thoughts, feelings, senses, and intuition, and regulating access to memory. It is the part that links the inner and outer worlds together, forming how we relate to that which is external to us. How a person relates to the external world is, according to Jung, determined by their levels of extroversion or introversion and how they make use of the functions of thinking, feeling, sensation, and intuition. Some people have developed more of one or two of these facets than the others, which shapes how they perceive the world around them. The origin of the ego lies in the self archetype, where it forms over the course of early development as the brain attempts to add meaning and value to its various experiences. The ego is just one small portion of the self, however; Jung believed that consciousness is selective, and the ego is the part of the self that selects the most relevant information from the environment and chooses a direction to take based on it, while the rest of the information sinks into the unconscious. It may, therefore, show up later in the form of dreams or visions, thus entering into the conscious mind.
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