Carl Jung’s Word Association Test
Video Overview & Insights
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.
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
1. head
2. green
Why is "to cook" both # 11 and # 20?
3. water
4. to sing
does any one have the book, which is mentioned in the video
5. dead
6. long
Tack!
7. ship
8. to pay
Jesus how much time did you take to make this video???
9. window
10. friendly
0´42 hölmess..? yes wättsön ^??^
hell... yes mr bövvmähn <°>
briänne szell ad surFanteen -:- ´€LP
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!
13. cold
14. stem
YouTube: censorship
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?
17. lake
18. sick
why is “to cook” on there twice?
19. pride
20. to cook
1. Head = Hair
2. To fall = to rise again
3. Fear = Unknown
4. Woman = Man
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?
23. needle
24. to swim
Should I keep or burn old journals?
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
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.
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.
31. tree
32. to prick
Proszę o tłumaczenie w języku polskim
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.
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?
37. salt
38. new
Good video. I really enjoy the topic of consiuisneszs
39. custom
40. to pray
Love it! Ty❤
41. money
42. foolish
for the first time, Jung came to the school of life.. Normally you guys are painfully neoFreudian, and it sucks
43. pamphlet
44. despise
I'm getting bored of translating your channel's videos into Turkish. Please 😫🙏🙏💓 Turkish subtitle option.
45. finger
46. expensive
Superb
47. bird
48. to fall
Please please make more videos on Jung.
49. book
50. unjust
Jung is alive to our unfulfilled potentials!😊
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
53. hunger
54. white
I find Jung works so complicated to grasp
55. child
56. to take care
Zindagi na milegi Dobara. This test is an essential part to the plot line of this Bollywood movie
57. lead pencil
58. sad
Thank you for this
59. plum
60. to marry
Reason a million why it’s good to have self awareness!
61. house
62. dear
Is this the first School of Life, Carl Jung associated video?
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.
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?????
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.
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...
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 :)
73. box
74. wild
I was dancing to the intro beat 🪘💎😁
75. family
76. to wash
Interesting list of words. Reminds me of the scene in What About Bob where Bob is being assessed...
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
79. luck
80. lie
how is it used nowadays ?
81. deportment
82. narrow
Ambivalent means having mixed feelings of contradictory ideas about something or someone.
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.
85. stork
86. false
👏🙂
87. anxiety
88. to kiss
Thank you for this
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."
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!!!
93. hay
94. contented
The 11th is TABLE not To COOK
95. ridicule
96. to sleep
is it weird that I went mentally blank in response to all of these words?
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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