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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.

I'm glad this is the only Jung video. Jung just ain't no Freud. I don't even consider him a psychoanalyst.

— @TheGinglymus

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:

Does this have valid retest reliability? Or is it like an IQ test where if you took it a 2nd time the results would be 'spoiled' due to knowledge of prior results

— @sangmadewira4726

1. head

2. green

Why is "to cook" both # 11 and # 20?

— @karlstriepe8050

3. water

4. to sing

does any one have the book, which is mentioned in the video

— @DigitalMarketing-vo4ox

5. dead

6. long

Tack!

— @Anna-w2u

7. ship

8. to pay

Jesus how much time did you take to make this video???

— @ivanaaa26

9. window

10. friendly

0´42 hölmess..? yes wättsön ^??^
hell... yes mr bövvmähn <°>
briänne szell ad surFanteen -:- ´€LP

— @cv507

11. to cook

12. to ask

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!

— @motivemystic

13. cold

14. stem

YouTube: censorship

— @biosphere8488

15. to dance

16. village

I dont think this works as well when you have to read the word yourself, rather than someone say the word to you?

— @vicstee482

17. lake

18. sick

why is “to cook” on there twice?

— @yepisuredolikecats

19. pride

20. to cook

1. Head = Hair
2. To fall = to rise again
3. Fear = Unknown
4. Woman = Man

— @JuJu_inKY

21. ink

22. angry

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?

— @JERUZBALANAC

23. needle

24. to swim

Should I keep or burn old journals?

— @NemanjaTalic

25. voyage

26. blue

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

— @sawsers

27. lamp

28. to sin

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.

— @phatato

29. bread

30. rich

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.

— @dipenjain12600

31. tree

32. to prick

Proszę o tłumaczenie w języku polskim

— @remmerren

33. pity

34. yellow

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.

— @generalpurpose772

35. mountain

36. to die

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?

— @studythinking2892

37. salt

38. new

Good video. I really enjoy the topic of consiuisneszs

— @mandeepbachheta6311

39. custom

40. to pray

Love it! Ty❤

— @e.f.4299

41. money

42. foolish

for the first time, Jung came to the school of life.. Normally you guys are painfully neoFreudian, and it sucks

— @kipropcollins4220

43. pamphlet

44. despise

I'm getting bored of translating your channel's videos into Turkish. Please 😫🙏🙏💓 Turkish subtitle option.

— @erdalmukan4315

45. finger

46. expensive

Superb

— @ihsanalienglishhandwriter9933

47. bird

48. to fall

Please please make more videos on Jung.

— @frankensteinhermonsters

49. book

50. unjust

Jung is alive to our unfulfilled potentials!😊

— @nizasiamehenry

51 frog

52. to part

Phenomenal as always. these are my favorite kind of the school of life videos, this animation being narrated by Alain it’s truly wonderful

— @tinysadpenguin

53. hunger

54. white

I find Jung works so complicated to grasp

— @badreddine.elfejer

55. child

56. to take care

Zindagi na milegi Dobara. This test is an essential part to the plot line of this Bollywood movie

— @sudeepsagar5168

57. lead pencil

58. sad

Thank you for this

— @Chazzy499

59. plum

60. to marry

Reason a million why it’s good to have self awareness!

— @stephanieh5478

61. house

62. dear

Is this the first School of Life, Carl Jung associated video?

— @MuzikTrabolee

63. glass

64. to quarrel

It is funny how I was playing this 'self-invented game' with my sister and we had very similar yet very different associations.

— @pavithraselvaraj4

65. fur

66. big

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?????

— @PreacherAtArrakeen

67. carrot

68. to paint

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.

— @sof553

69. part

70. old

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...

— @DrAidan

71. flower

72. to beat

Great video as always!! Beyond glad to have Alain back more prominently on the channel! It has certainly increased my engagement with the channel :)

— @natasalways

73. box

74. wild

I was dancing to the intro beat 🪘💎😁

— @sicelomkhwanazi

75. family

76. to wash

Interesting list of words. Reminds me of the scene in What About Bob where Bob is being assessed...

— @howard1beale

77. cow

78. friend

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

— @knockshinnoch1950

79. luck

80. lie

how is it used nowadays ?

— @BobbyMasteria

81. deportment

82. narrow

Ambivalent means having mixed feelings of contradictory ideas about something or someone.

— @DogLover-36

83. brother

84. to fear

... Aaaaand now we know where all those totally legit self-diagnostic and personality tests online come from. I don't believe for a second someone's "unconscious" association to the word "box" is their life or "brother" to "lie". They were perfectly well aware of what their issues and their origins were but due to therapy being a social taboo they're not going to straight away burst out "my brother is a lying sack of shit". But it's easier if the issues come out because of scientific analysis. It gives them credibility. Or perhaps the opposite could be true. When your therapist says this test will reveal your unconscious and the only thing you can come up with is synonyms to those words you'll start to actually come up with "interesting" associations consciously because otherwise it would mean you're not only boring, but perfectly sound of mind, which contradicts your condition.

— @ZombieDragQueen

85. stork

86. false

👏🙂

— @77heraclitus

87. anxiety

88. to kiss

Thank you for this

— @Syco108

89. bride

90. pure

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."

— @ThisIsMyFullName

91. door

92. to choose

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!!!

— @anacarolvp

93. hay

94. contented

The 11th is TABLE not To COOK

— @jaredgm7343

95. ridicule

96. to sleep

is it weird that I went mentally blank in response to all of these words?

— @samibraheem1579

97. month

98. nice

99. woman

100. to abuse

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FURTHER READING

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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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