Jung Psychology

Carl Gustav Jung

Jung psychology defines human psychology very well, observing functions of the brain, examining characters and the structure.

Jung explains many truths which are being overlooked from us: The truth related to being human. It explains truths by going into subconscious. Jung says that the biggest danger which will humanity face is 'psychical danger'. And this will come from subconsciouses of human beings.

If we go into details of Jung psychology, we can understand the philosophy-psychology-science-economics square very well. Inasmuch as human behavior is the basis of economic behavior and economic affairs, then we can get into it.

'Thoughts can not be limited with boundaries.'

Jung, first of all, divided people into archetypes. If we mention some of them, they are: introverted, extroverted, sensing-intuiting, thinking-feeling, judging-perceiving. These are, though, influenced by environment and time. The point is that they are coming from birth. This is important. Genetic information is inherited from father to son. And no one can prevent this from happening. Preventing means coming about a mulfunction.

Nobody is expected to show the same behaviors. Because, firstly, everyone is different from each other owing to their genes. Characters are different. And these characters and behaviors affect all affairs. How can you explain that some of the countries are underdeveloped, some of them developed and some have dualistic structure that stuck between two sides? Properties of a Mediterranean, Northern European, African cause very different behaviors.

Recently, in democratic countries, governers who come to power by ballot act different from each other. Economic situation is different in each country. That's why behaviors of people and governers are definately different from each other. Is this true? In underdeveloped countries, economic policies which are being applied culminate in fiasco. But they still continue applying the same policies, sometimes policies which developed countries apply. Keynesian policies have been applied for a long time but it is forgotten that conditions of each country are different. Are there any handicap in front of creative insights?

It is a truth that everybody can not understand economics well. There is no doubt that the man in the street regard economics as not a complicated thing. Despite this, he behaves economically like saving, spending, investing and so on. This act which seems simple to the man in the street studied technically by economists. Some graphics show some truths. Is this really true? Or do those graphics change? It is difficult to say that the basic graphics alter. Disparities can come about unless humans' changing behaviors are taken into consideration.

Jung psychology and philosophy... How can you adapt his ideas to economics? Does economics mean some economic models and graphics which we apply in a nation's economy? No.  Policy, democracy form a reference and economy is based on these. Political economic organizations and political economic persons according to institutional economics act in a society as individual parts and they use a philosophy and their characters but of course their habits are restricted by policies and the society. Jung's theories can be applied in terms of these aspects.

Economics Without Psychology

Most commonly it proceeds on the premise that human beings behave mechanistically. If it were like this, every man in a society reacts the same as the others to economic affairs and changes.
 

For instance, cite that consumer expenditures are a function of income: For under the same income conditions, humans will spend the same proportion of their incomes. We need something more to describe the whole story. e.g. Inflation can be caused by an increase in money supply: It's assumed that the behavior of human beings who pay increasing prices is determined by these conditions.

Psychology aims at the establishment of relationships between spesific conditions and spesific forms of behavior, rather than general laws of human nature.

Individual and

Behavior

Take a look at the Behavioral Theory.

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