 Are you happy with your life
now?
 Do you find meaning in the things
that you do everyday?
 What makes you truly happy?
Spiritual self
 Who we are at our core
 More permanent than our material self and
social self
 Subjective and most intimate self
 Our way of seeking as well as expressing
the meaning and purpose of our life
Finding and creating meaning
(Viktor Frankl)
 Meaning: something to discover
rather than to invent
- conceptually similar to inner
happiness, life satisfaction, selfactualization, and deep spirituality
 Existential Vacuum: life is empty,
meaningless, purposeless, aimless
- leads to seeking of pleasure and
power
Ways of Discovering
Meaning in Life
1. Experiential Values:
experiencing
something with
someone we value
- love we feel towards
another
2. Creative Values:
becoming involved in
the project of one’s
own life
- expression of
creativity and passion
3. Attitudinal Values:
compassion, bravery,
good sense of humor
Structures of Personality
(Carl Jung)
1. Ego: center of
consciousness
- concerned with
perceiving, thinking,
feeling, and remembering
- center of an individual’s
will
- enables man to strive for
conscious goals
2. Personal Unconscious:
memories that are easily
brought to mind and those
that have been forgotten or
suppressed for some reason
3. Collective Unconscious: man’s
psychic inheritance
- knowledge people are all
born with
- deepest and least accessible
level of the psyche
- contains the different
archetypes
Archetypes
1. Shadow: Sex and life
instincts
- derives form man’s animal
past when people’s
concerns were limited to
survival and reproduction
- amoral (neither good nor
bad)
2. Persona: Man’s public image
- mask that a person puts
on before he shows
himself to the outside
world
3. Anima and animus (Syzygy)
- Anima: female
aspect present in
the collective
unconscious of
men
- Animus: male aspect
present in the collective
unconscious of women
- responsible for man’s
love life
4. Self: transcendence of all
opposites so that every
aspect of personality is
expressed equally
Individuation
 Process of restoring
wholeness to the psyche in
adult development
 Goal: move the center of
personality from the ego to
some midpoint between the
ego and the unconscious