Carl Jung’s Word Association Test
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- One of the most significant discoveries of the early 20th century was of a part of the mind we now refer to as ‘the unconscious.’ It came to be properly appreciated that what we know of ourselves in ordinary consciousness comprises only a fraction of what is actually at play within us; and that a lot of what we really want, feel and are is not at our mental fingertips, lying instead in a penumbra of ignorance, fantasy and denial which we can only hope to dispel with patient and compassionate efforts, probably with the assistance of an analyst.
Carl Jung's Word Association Test - included below - is a tool designed to help us access the unconscious. It comproises a sequence of a 100 words.
Say the very first thing that comes into your head in response to the following prompts. Then reflect on your answers and see whether any material surfaces that feels valuable but outside of the reach of your ordinary thoughts:
1. head
2. green
3. water
4. to sing
5. dead
6. long
7. ship
8. to pay
9. window
10. friendly
11. to cook
12. to ask
13. cold
14. stem
15. to dance
16. village
17. lake
18. sick
19. pride
20. to cook
21. ink
22. angry
23. needle
24. to swim
25. voyage
26. blue
27. lamp
28. to sin
29. bread
30. rich
31. tree
32. to prick
33. pity
34. yellow
35. mountain
36. to die
37. salt
38. new
39. custom
40. to pray
41. money
42. foolish
43. pamphlet
44. despise
45. finger
46. expensive
47. bird
48. to fall
49. book
50. unjust
51 frog
52. to part
53. hunger
54. white
55. child
56. to take care
57. lead pencil
58. sad
59. plum
60. to marry
61. house
62. dear
63. glass
64. to quarrel
65. fur
66. big
67. carrot
68. to paint
69. part
70. old
71. flower
72. to beat
73. box
74. wild
75. family
76. to wash
77. cow
78. friend
79. luck
80. lie
81. deportment
82. narrow
83. brother
84. to fear
85. stork
86. false
87. anxiety
88. to kiss
89. bride
90. pure
91. door
92. to choose
93. hay
94. contented
95. ridicule
96. to sleep
97. month
98. nice
99. woman
100. to abuse
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“One of the most significant discoveries of the early 20th century was of a part of the mind we now refer to as ‘the unconscious.’ It came to be properly appreciated that what we know of ourselves in ordinary consciousness comprises only a fraction of what is actually at play within us; and that a lot of what we really want, feel and are is not at our mental fingertips, lying instead in a penumbra of ignorance, fantasy and denial which we can only hope to dispel with patient and compassionate efforts, probably with the assistance of an analyst.
Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams, first published in Vienna in 1900, was the landmark study of the workings of this unconscious region, and detailed the mind’s relentless attempts to hide a great many of its most salient truths from itself in the form of dreams - which might shock, disturb or excite us while they unfolded but would then be deliberately forgotten or misunderstood upon our waking…”
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I feel like Carl Jung is never talked about enough, often Sigmund Freud gets all the credit. Sometimes a person is so ahead of his time, that he will seem mad in his present. I mean, the man is endlessly quotable:
"As a child I felt myself to be alone, and I still am, because I know things - and must hint at things - which others apparently know nothing of, and for the most part do not want to know. Loneliness does not come from having no people about one, but from not being able to communicate the things that seem important to oneself, or from holding certain views which others find inadmissible."
"As far as we can discern, the sole purpose of human existence is to kindle a light in the darkness of mere being. It may even be assumed that just as the unconscious affects us, so the increase in our consciousness affects the unconscious."
"Knowing your own darkness is the best method for dealing with the darkness of other people. One does not become enlightened by imagining figures of light, but by making the darkness conscious. The most terrifying thing is to accept oneself completely. Your vision will become clear only when you can look into your own heart. Who looks outside, dreams; who looks inside, awakens."
omg finally I can hear this voice talking about CARL JUNG !!!!!!!
It's all in Alain's voice.... I'm glad he's back.
Yeah ai is so useful!
@@JoshIbbotson Oh, noooo.... I thought it was Alain. How can you tell? Thanks.
Josh Ibbotson I was lucky enough to attend a live tv interview with him many years ago, when I believe he was talking about holidays...it was great, so I know it's him talking.
It's hard to fully grasp what Carl Jung has already said and done. What a man!
1. head
2. green
3. water
4. to sing
5. dead
6. long
7. ship
8. to pay
9. window
10. friendly
11. to cook
12. to ask
13. cold
14. stem
15. to dance
16. village
17. lake
18. sick
19. pride
20. to cook
21. ink
22. angry
23. needle
24. to swim
25. voyage
26. blue
27. lamp
28. to sin
29. bread
30. rich
31. tree
32. to prick
33. pity
34. yellow
35. mountain
36. to die
37. salt
38. new
39. custom
40. to pray
41. money
42. foolish
43. pamphlet
44. despise
45. finger
46. expensive
47. bird
48. to fall
49. book
50. unjust
51 frog
52. to part
53. hunger
54. white
55. child
56. to take care
57. lead pencil
58. sad
59. plum
60. to marry
61. house
62. dear
63. glass
64. to quarrel
65. fur
66. big
67. carrot
68. to paint
69. part
70. old
71. flower
72. to beat
73. box
74. wild
75. family
76. to wash
77. cow
78. friend
79. luck
80. lie
81. deportment
82. narrow
83. brother
84. to fear
85. stork
86. false
87. anxiety
88. to kiss
89. bride
90. pure
91. door
92. to choose
93. hay
94. contented
95. ridicule
96. to sleep
97. month
98. nice
99. woman
100. to abuse
To cook comes up twice as 11 and 20. Is this intentional?
Number 4 is missing
@@Leo-mr1qz My response is "disgusting" & the reason is NSFW
@@Jonnyeth Well spotted.
Now I'm wondering, would someone's answers be different if the list was read backwards starting from 100, or are the words and their relation to one another of no particular immediate relevance?
I did the test on myself, definitely do the test on yourself. It confirmed for me some things I already knew, and it’s given me some things to think about also.
I wonder what the state of modern consciousness would become if we paid more attention to our underlying subconscious self
It would be a very interesting one that's for sure!
We are, sadly, centuries away from a conscious state of living as a species. Our knowledge always predates our actions, that is the human fallacy. But I envy those who get to live in such times, and look back at our age in a similar way that we look back at the 17th century.
I wonder if our subconscious experiences itself like we experience our consciousness in its own unique way, separate from our experience.
@@zachh3296no because it knows innately that all is one & all is now
🎉W adhd yet ptsd immediate awareness must be a mess
What a coincidence! But, as Dr. Jung would say, 'there's no such thing'. I was just thinking about my psychoanalysis and how I still felt the necessity to visity philosophy and explore other fileds when I found this video! By the way, I've already read 3 of Jung's books and though I do psychoanalysis, I also use Jung's discoveries as tools and guide to my self knowledge and mental health.
I Love the videos on this channel! So witty and avant garde!!!
Hey anacarolvp, I think you have discovered MBTI 16 PERSONALITY TYPE of yours, and it might be an INFJ 😅. Carl Gustav Jung was also an INFJ. After watching your subscription list 😜, the common channels among us are;
Frank James
Love Who
Psychology Refresh
Erik Thor
TEDx talk
The School of Life.
As an INFJ, we are Insightful, visionary, Philosophical- finding purpose and meaning in everything.
Jung's discovery tools might be the four temperaments given by him through 4 colours, with the help of this temperaments, Katherine Briggs and Isabel Myers has developed MBTI TEST. 😊😊😊
Phenomenal as always. these are my favorite kind of the school of life videos, this animation being narrated by Alain it’s truly wonderful
Thank you so much for sharing all your insights and advice and sources. Knowledge is a great gift and available for all is even more so ❤
Great video as always!! Beyond glad to have Alain back more prominently on the channel! It has certainly increased my engagement with the channel :)
Reason a million why it’s good to have self awareness!
Please please make more videos on Jung.
Wow, this video is such a gem! I've always been fascinated by Carl Jung and his groundbreaking work on the unconscious mind. It's incredible how he introduced the concept of the collective unconscious and the power of word association. This test is truly eye-opening and helps us understand ourselves on a deeper level. Thank you for sharing this insightful content!
Jung is alive to our unfulfilled potentials!😊
I suppose we need an audio version of these words in sequence?
Yeah, I just automatically keep thinking of the next word.
@@SaintBroken It would be better. Not to seem ungrateful or anything!
Right! Because when I'm reading it my first word is just a word sounding or looking similar in written.
Been a long time since I read Memories, Dreams, Reflections. Of all the Psychoanalysts, I like Jung the most. He could go from the mundane to the esoteric at the drop of a hat, from easily followable to....what?????
Interesting list of words. Reminds me of the scene in What About Bob where Bob is being assessed...
Thank you!
Thank you for this
I have found art, especially collage, is similarly revealing and surprising.
Yay! I love that voice.
Thank you. It's very interesting to explore the unconscious like that. In my opinion, I would only do such self-explorations if one feels comfortable with it. Someone who has suffered trauma but also others might end up very agitated. I know, you make thought-provoking videos, but a bit more video length could help to cover such details. Miss your Sunday Sermons... Hope you're well.
Agreed.💙✌🏼
Love it! Ty❤
That was a fun exercise. I was surprised I came up with a lot of silly responses. Kind of true to my outlook on life though.
Amazing
This comment section is a wonderful demonstration of the principle described!
This is not a scientifically proven technique but it is still interesting to know about. It might be a great tool for self-discovery and I'm looking forward to trying it out for myself.
Yes, it is a scientifically proven technique. Jung published all his material, his results were replicated many times, the theories have held sound since he came up with them, nobody has been able to actually discredit any of it and it now forms the basis of the concept of psychological complexes and the various schools of complex psychology.
Zindagi na milegi Dobara. This test is an essential part to the plot line of this Bollywood movie
It is funny how I was playing this 'self-invented game' with my sister and we had very similar yet very different associations.
Good video. I really enjoy the topic of consiuisneszs
The Mental Illness of Psych Workers from Psychiatrists to Needle Injectors is legendary. For instance Mother might be the word association with Anger but what are the non-verbal associations with mother in that mood, in any forced into narrowing to pathology of natural personality traits by those that believe in mental illness, by general association, by the mood set or gone into a therapy session set by the therapist or client etc. But then again are the patients concentrating on the pathologies of the therapist due to it being natural to concentrate on what the authority is concentrating on, and do tricks teach tricks and are mental hygiene techniques by the therapist teaching to isolate and cultivate pathological inner memes making them worse in many cases. All complexities far beyond Freud, but what about Jung?
I find Jung works so complicated to grasp
Superb
Another intuition of Jung was to adopt a multipolar vision of the mind inspired by the hypotheses of one of his teachers Janet. Today Janet has been recovered in relation to the psychopathology of trauma and dissociation. Then Jung after the midlife crisis he realized that he actually wanted to do something more like the alchemist than the psychiatrist and scientist but on this he always remained ambiguous. However Jung was a genius whose many insights are to be recovered in the light of current scientific knowledge.
Not at all. Jung followed the thread of his scientific psychological exploration directly into alchemy. He didn’t just give up psychiatry and science and start bumbling along like a 14th century alchemist because he had a midlife crisis. The fact is that alchemical manuscripts are a monolithic storehouse or unconscious content manifesting in consciousness in symbolic form within the minds of geniuses over the ages. Alchemy was the intermediary of the “pagan” psychological impulses through the hyper-Christian period of the Middle Ages.
@@theunbeliever7394 Precisely. He has entered an arduous middle ground, trying to reconcile science and alchemy. But from a scientific point of view they are only research hypotheses still largely to be developed. My impression is that for now only authors like Jean Knox are trying to reconcile the fertility of some of Jung's intuitions with the development of current science.The rest are more esoteric and spiritual desires that are legitimate but difficult to place in scientific research. It is not a criticism it is important that there are explorers of the border areas, which are the most difficult but propitious ones.
is it weird that I went mentally blank in response to all of these words?
Why not take Jung's test in the comments? Choose 5 or more word prompts included in the video description above and write your responses as a reply.
No thanks.
@@SomeKidFromBritain
Pay = price
Angry = pain
Anxiety = winner
Cold = always
Abuse = fuck you (my first thoughts)
I don't think that revealing one's deep traumas and anxieties to strangers on the internet is a good idea!
Number 4 doesn't exist
hmmm what 5 words will my unconscious pick?
❤
My first 5 words;
Head, brain
Green, grass
Water, thirst
To sing, joy
Dead, on
how is it used nowadays ?
I was dancing to the intro beat 🪘💎😁
How much you pay the person that shakes the maracas?
I do need to present a report for this specific test, but I can`t find any source on how to interpret this one. Can someone help me out?
So this is the origin of those word association games we see psychiatrists asking special agents in action films? Seem to remember seeing it in James Bond a few years back...
Should I keep or burn old journals?
Is this the first School of Life, Carl Jung associated video?
Yes it is.
@@theschooloflifetv we need more
How did Jung arrive at his list of 100 words and how did he arrive at his decoding of the results? It all sounds a bit suspect and far from scientific
Read Collected Works Vol 2: Experimental Researches. It’s all in there. It’s very good science even by todays standards, especially his work on the psycho physiology of complexes via the galvanometer. If he continued this work instead of diving into the depths of mythology and alchemy, there would have been no historical reason for the emergence of behaviorism and CBT.
Number 4 is missing
Word Association Test aka WAT is used in selection of Armed Forces Officers in India and some other countries along with other psych. tests such as Thematic Apperception Test ( writing a story on an image shown in very less period of time). WAT was also seen in the bond movie Skyfall, wherein Bond takes a WAT before rejoining.
No doubt if armed forces are using this test it is reliable.
1. Blown
2. Trees
3. Lovely
5. My heart out
6. Standing
7. Far away (this one took time)
8. Gratitude
9. Of my soul
10. Neighbor
11. I’m blank here
12. For money
13. Turkey
14. Cells
15. My heart out
16. Of people
17. Filled with stars
18. People
19. And prejudice
20. Blank again
21. On my skin
22. Angry mother lol
23. Needle felting
24. Under your skin
25. Beyond
26. Ocean
27. Moth
28. Is okay
29. Butter
30. People
31. Hug
32. My belly (idk what’s this about)
33. Don’t
34. Stars
35. Peak
36. Liberate
37. Bath
38. Start
39. Made
40. To god
41. Bling
42. Person
43. Tear it
44. You
45. Me (wow okay)
46. Bitch (in a badass way)
47. Poop
48. For you
49. Worm
50. View
51. Princess
52. Away
53. Games
54. Light
55. Curious
56. Of the child
57. Sharp
58. Is okay
59. Orange
60. A person
61. Plants
62. Lovely
63. Green
64. Between siblings
65. Furry
66. D
67. Eat
68. My dreams
69. Time
70. Geezer
71. Petal
72. Around the bush
73. Broken through
74. Garden
75. Flawed
76. Your hands
77. Dung
78. What does it even mean?
79. Good
80. I don’t
81. Idk what this word means
82. Minded
83. Cutie
84. Is okay
85. Baby
86. Identify
87. Inducing
88. Your lover
89. & groom
90. Hearted
91. To infinity
92. Yourself first
93. Day (i like the game)
94. With you
95. Me (definitely a fear)
96. With eyes open
97. Year
98. Unknown
100. Your power
This was interesting!
you like the daygame? cool!
@@yunsemree i meant i like playing hay day
Ambivalent means having mixed feelings of contradictory ideas about something or someone.
why is “to cook” on there twice?
👏🙂
Oh outkast 🎉
For most of these, the first thing that pops into my head is just an image of what that word represents. For blue, my minds eye is just filled with the color blue. And then I’m not sure if I just repeat the word or say “color”….? Or “to sing” I just picture a proper opera woman holding a long loud note like “LAAAAAAA!” My first reaction isn’t a word, it’s just an image I then have to describe with the best words I can find. Is my brain broken? lol
Is there anyone that can recommend me a good Carl Jung book?
Red book
‘Man and his symbols’
Man and his symbols is the best introduction to his work. From there I would recommend symbols of transformation, follow that with structure and dynamics of the psyche or archetypes and the collective unconscious.
The Unbeliever The latter one is one of my favourite books, though it's a bit of a struggle, so I delve into it a little at a time. I shall have to check out the others mentioned.
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I'm getting bored of translating your channel's videos into Turkish. Please 😫🙏🙏💓 Turkish subtitle option.
Yeah but you could say Green and someone say something like strong cause they like the Hulk. It just depends on what they relate the word to.
Exactly.
I dont think this works as well when you have to read the word yourself, rather than someone say the word to you?
The 11th is TABLE not To COOK
And????
1. Head = Hair
2. To fall = to rise again
3. Fear = Unknown
4. Woman = Man
Ready set, slip like freudian 😂😮😢
TH-cam: censorship
People should definitely read Freuds interpretation of dreams to realise how ridiculous most of his ideas were. Untestable speculations with 0 validity. The nonsense Freud and Jung did on numbers show how faulty their thinking was.
Maybe you should read Jung’s criticisms of Freud before you link the two together.
@@theunbeliever7394 they were both unbelievably wrong but we can’t blame them too much as the scientific methods for psychological research were not well developed at that point. Some of both of their writings are maybe interesting thought experiments, but are untestable speculations. Freud and Jung are more similar than different and the mistakes both make are numerous and consistent.
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Or maybe these sorts of tests really are a bit silly. If you study psychology you learn they are invalid and unreliable. Something this channel should note. There are reasons why rigorous assessments do not include these tests.
Exactly but workplaces around the US love to use his BS system as a standard for lazy HR departments. Its all for fun but some people really believe in this and think it has some scientific basis.
Right. So word association tests as a probe for complexes are silly, invalid and unreliable, but labelling someone as depressed based on some flimsy symptom review and then medicating them with SSRIs is valid and reliable?
When the school of life doesn't reach you anything anymore, which school do you attend?
It never stops teaching..
@@oneseeker2 I learn faster than it
There's so many other great channels, you can't expect that only one channel can be enough considering they are limited to a video a week (still the community articles are still very nice and thought provoking, and are some times more than one a day). Theramin trees, Dr. Tracey Marks, Dr Kanojia, Ana psychology, Dr. Katy Morton, just to name a few great channels...
@@DrSearingstar They don't know much to be honest
depends what you want to learn i suppose
This is quite an unethical recommendations, to use a test that was developed for clinical purpose (with questionable internal validity) in non-clinical settings... At best what this does is to push people into their heads and create internal line of questioning and a narrative that goes no where... I'm seriously disappointed by this video
It's pseudoscience like much of psychology
??? Don’t think this video was meant to recommend the test. It’s telling us the history of it. Your way out of context
It's literally asking people to take the test in the comments
It's not unethical. This information is already out there, it's not like he's revealing something private or damaging. People who have no interest won't even try it.
@@xephael3485 psychology is everything in our mind. Psychology can explain why you answer is so aggressive...
Don't quote this crap like it's a scientific fact. Jung never proved anything. His entire theory is merely amusing. As a therapeutic practice it's useless.
You sound like the kind of person who can't quite believe human beings do not already know everything there is to know.
@@TheRevWillNotBeTelevised Listen to what he's saying: "discovered". The unconscious wasn't discovered. It's just a bad theory, and full of holes. Jung was a creative fella, and that's about it.
This video is pseudoscience
Your subconscious doesn't want you to know it exists.
psychology is everything in our mind. Psychology can explain why you answer is so aggressive...
for the first time, Jung came to the school of life.. Normally you guys are painfully neoFreudian, and it sucks
There is only one God. “Within the one Being that is God, there exists eternally three coequal and coeternal persons, namely, the Father, the Son, and the Holy Spirit.” God is the creator of everything and is Sovereign over everything. God has appointed his only Son to judge the living and the dead. We have all sinned and broken God’s law, such as lying, stealing, lusting, anger, and pride. God is Holy, Just, and Impartial. That is why when God judges he cannot let even one sin from anyone go unpunished and that punishment is eternal hell. We can’t work our way into heaven and our good deeds can’t save us from our sin. The bible says all our righteous acts are like filthy rags. We would perish if we died and faced God with our own righteousness.
The Good news is that God is also Love and Merciful and sent his only Son to save his people from their sin. Jesus who is fully God and fully human, lived a perfect life and never sinned. He willingly went to the cross where the Father took the wrath that his people deserved, and put it on Jesus. Jesus paid the price for their sin and died on the cross. He was buried and on the third day God raised him from the dead. God commands all people everywhere to repent of their sins and to put their trust in Jesus. Biblical repentance is a change of mind about Sin. It’s an attitude of the heart, genuinely turning from sin to God. Everyone who repents and puts their trust in Jesus, will have their sins credited to Jesus, and Jesus’s righteousness will be credited to them. Their sins will be forgiven, and they will be given eternal life. When it’s time to face God, he will welcome them into heaven because of Jesus’s perfect righteousness.
Thank you for this