Complex (psychology)

A complex (from Latin complecti together weave, hugging, summarize, combine ) called in psychology a collection of feelings, images, thoughts and ideas, often unconsciously (often repressed, partly by disturbances in early childhood development caused ) to acts of thinking dreams, but also neuroses and obsessions have influence and are connected by an emotional coloring. Complexes may have a positive or negative develop depending on whether it the I succeed in creating a conscious relationship. The psychological process, caused by the complex is called compression or compaction.

CG Jung summed psychological complexes not only as "real" in the sense of " acting ", but as something objective ( ontological ) Available. According to this view, there is not only the below individual- psychological complexes, but also over - individual, collective Complex - independent of and prior to any cultural background. This he called archetypes.

Examples

Examples of unconscious complexes are:

• Adonis Complex
• Don Juan complex
• Electra complex
• Inferiority complex, often colloquially synonymous complexes
• Napoleon Complex
• Oedipus complex

Awareness ( ie largely integrated), however, are:

• I complex
• Persona as a " publicly visible " part of the ego-complex