单项选择题
Carl Jung’s well-documented break with Sigmund Freud occurred because
of Jung’s inability and unwillingness to accept Freud’s view of the libido as the
sexual drive of fulfillment. Believing that the libido, or the urge towards life,
Line extended beyond mere sexuality to a hypothetical elan vital, or life energy
(5) itself, Jung stressed a widened consciousness whereby the individual seeks to
reconcile the opposites of his or her libidial nature that dwell in the conscious as
well as the personal and collective unconscious.
Jung defines this consciousness, moreover, as the center of the ego, and
the personal unconscious as a repository of repressed personal experiences or
(10) complexes that must be made conscious. Finally, the collective unconscious is
an archive of hereditary symbolic archetypes that express themselves in
dreams, fantasies, and actions, and must also be made conscious. Jung
postulated that these archetypal patterns must be integrated into the world of
the ego, which is then forced to acknowledge for these reasons that the ego-
(15) centered consciousness is not really self-sufficient and does not exist
independently and alone, but is guided by an integrating factor not of its own
making.
A.It discusses an apparent inconsistency in theoretical discourse and suggests a reason for it.
B.It outlines a sequence of theoretical shifts in psychology.
C.It shows why a formerly held view is inaccurate.
D.It evaluates an explanation of a psychological phenomenon and finally rejects that explanation.
E.It places into context the discursive origins of a theory and elaborates upon it.