Does anyone know any great reads on psychological complexes?

Question

Hi! How's everyone today?I'm interested in a website or a book that gives info. oin human complexes with a nice description/definition. I would prefer something with a comprehensive listing.

What makes us expect too much from people (those of us that do)? Is this due to high expectations a parent has put on a child?
thank You for your help.

Answer 1

Complex (psychology)

In psychology a complex is generally an important group of unconscious associations, or a strong unconscious impulse lying behind an individual's otherwise mysterious condition: the detail varies widely from theory to theory. However their existence is quite widely agreed upon in the area of depth psychology at least, being instrumental in the systems of both Freud and Jung. They are generally a way of mapping the psyche, and are crucial theoretical items of common reference to be found in therapy.

The term "complex," or "feeling-toned complex of ideas," was adopted by Carl Jung when he was still a close associate of Sigmund Freud. (Theodor Ziehen is credited with coining the term in 1898.) Jung described a "complex" as a 'node' in the unconscious; it may be imagined as a knot of unconscious feelings and beliefs, detectable indirectly, through behavior that is puzzling or hard to account for.

Jung found evidence for complexes very early in his career, in the word association tests conducted at the Burghölzli, the psychiatric clinic of Zurich University, where Jung worked from 1900-1908. In the word association tests, a researcher read a list of words to each subject, who was asked to say, as quickly as possible, the first thing that came to mind in response to each word. Researchers timed subjects' responses, and noted any unusual reactions--hesitations, slips of the tongue, signs of emotion. Jung was interested in patterns he detected in subjects' responses, hinting at unconscious feelings and beliefs.

In Jung's theory, complexes may be related to traumatic experience, or not. There are many kinds of complex, but at the core of any complex is a universal pattern of experience, or archetype. Some of the key complexes Jung wrote about were the anima (a node of unconscious beliefs and feelings in a man's psyche relating to the opposite gender) and animus (the corresponding complex in a woman's psyche); and the shadow (Jung's term embracing any aspect of psyche which has been excluded from conscious awareness). Many Jungian complexes appear in complementary pairs: for example, the puer, or eternal youth, often appears in relationship to the senex, or archetypal old man. A puer complex might manifest as an individual's unconscious dread of growing up, of losing one's romantic ideals or freedom; a senex complex, by contrast, might be seen in a person who, without seeming to understand why, is driven to act out an "old man" role, in creative or destructive ways. Only when a complex results in destructive behavior would it be seen as pathological; otherwise, a Jungian view of psyche accepts the presence of diverse complexes in ordinary health.

One of the key differences between Jungian and Freudian theory is that Jung's thought posits several different kinds of complex, and emphasizes duality or plurality rather than unity as a basic condition of the human psyche. Freud held that the Oedipus complex was universal--reflecting developmental challenges that face every child--and was the central complex in most or all psychopathology.

Once Jung broke from Freud and the two men went their own ways, forming their own disciplines behind them, there was briefly a movement in some of Freud's circle to remove all of Jung's work and terminology from their school of psychoanalysis. Freud himself however refused, and so the name "complex" stayed.

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1 List of proposed psychological complexes
1.1 Freudian
1.2 Jungian
1.3 Other
1.3.1 Used in Cultural Terms



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List of proposed psychological complexes
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Freudian
Oedipus complex
Castration complex see also Gender narcissism
Electra complex (see also penis envy)
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Jungian
anima
animus
puer
senex
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Other
Inferiority complex
Napoleon complex
Messianic complex
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Used in Cultural Terms
"Stacy's Mom Complex" (see Stacy's Mom by Fountains of Wayne)

"Rubik's Complex" (see Rubik's cube)

"Ostrich Complex"

"Stand Alone Complex" (see Ghost in the Shell: Stand Alone Complex)



^^Wikipedia-the solution to all your problems

and also you can read some Sigmund Freud ..if you can handle it....Carl Jung is also there...

Answer 2

Excessive dependency to external sources of fulfillment is an issue with the Dependant Child Archetype which often is very much active in many adults.
So to become self reliant and free ourselves from external dependency, we need to learn to fulfill ourselves by ourselves, simply by connecting with our spirit more often and deeply, with a deep connection you will always feel filled up to the brim and never feel the need to ask for anything, others to flock around you to enjoy your abundance of spirit.

Excessive expectations is projected as neediness which itself blocks the flow of love towards you as it puts off many people. Further unless you become the source of love you will also attract needy or unfulfilled people, so expecting them to fulfill you will surely lead to some disappointment though I hope it will push you turn your radars in wards.

You are magnet that attracts people into your life, change the magnet.

Answer 3

there are various different complexes. specifically situations you will possibly be able to desire to call them psychological blcoks besides. relatively they are organic tendencies we've in different circumstances in accordance with ideals in our minds approximately ourselves. as an occasion, an inferiority complicated is whilst somebody continually assigns themself the function of the inferior individual in a set of persons.

Answer 4

There are list of 1855 books on psychology in
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