Questions 98 to 101.

SECTION C: VERBAL AND LOGICAL ABILITY

Analyse the passage given and provide an appropriate answer for the question nos. 98 through 101 that follow.

Number of words in this passage: 278

Enunciated by Jung as an integral part of his psychology in 1916 immediately after his unsettling confrontation with the unconscious, the transcendent function was seen by Jung as uniting the opposites, transforming psyche, and central to the individuation process. It also undoubtedly reflects his personal experience in coming to terms with the unconscious. Jung portrayed the transcendent function as operating through symbol and fantasy and mediating between the opposites of consciousness and the unconscious to prompt the emergence of a new, third posture that transcends the two. In exploring the details of the transcendent function and its connection to other Jungian constructs, this work has unearthed significant changes, ambiguities, and inconsistencies in Jung’s writings. Further, it has identified two separate images of the transcendent function: (1) the narrow transcendent function, the function or process within Jung’s pantheon of psychic structures, generally seen as the uniting of the opposites of consciousness and the unconscious from which a new attitude emerges; and (2) the expansive transcendent function, the root metaphor for psyche or being psychological that subsumes Jung’s pantheon and that apprehends the most fundamental psychic activity of interacting with the unknown or other. This book has also posited that the expansive transcendent function, as the root metaphor for exchanges between conscious and the unconscious, is the wellspring from whence flows other key Jungian structures such as the archetypes and the Self, and is the core of the individuation process. The expansive transcendent function has been explored further by surveying other schools of psychology, with both depth and non-depth orientations, and evaluating the transcendent function alongside structures or processes in those other schools which play similar mediatory and/or transitional roles.

98. The above passage is most likely an excerpt from:

(A) A research note

(B) An entry on a psychopathology blog

(D) A scholarly treatise

(E) A newspaper article

Explanatory Note:

The passage is most likely an excerpt from a research note. Refer sentences 4 and 6. Choice (A)

99. It can be definitely inferred from the passage above that

(A) The expansive transcendent function would include elements of both the Consciousness and the Unconscious.

(B) Archetypes emerge from the narrow transcendent function.

(C) The whole work, from which this excerpt is taken, primarily concerns itself with the inconsistencies in Jung’s writings.

(D) The transcendent is the core of the individuation process.

(E) Jung’s pantheon of concepts subsumes the root metaphor of psyche.

Explanatory Note:

Statement B is incorrect. Archetypes emerge from the expansive transcendent function. Statement A is stated in the passage so is not inferential. (Refer sentence 6 of the passage). Statement C is not apt, as the whole work does not primarily concern itself with inconsistencies in Jung’s writings. Statement E is a distorted statement. Refer sentence 4 from the passage. We can infer that the transcendent is the core of the individuation process and includes the narrow and expansive transcendent functions. Choice (D)

100. A comparison similar to the distinction between the two images of the transcendent function would be:

(A) raucous: hilarious

(B) synchronicity: ontology

(D) penurious: decrepit

(E) None of the above

Explanatory Note:

‘Synchronicity’ refers to the simultaneous occurrence of events which appear significantly related but have no casual connection. ‘Ontology’ is a branch of metaphysics. Option B is similar to the distinction between the two images of the transcendent functions. The other options show no such relation. Choice (B)

101. As per the passage, the key Jungian structure – other than the Self – that emerges from the expansive transcendent function may NOT be expressed as a(n):

(A) Stereotype (B) Anomaly (C) Idealized model (D) Original pattern (E) Epitome

Explanatory Note:

‘Anomaly’ which refers to something that deviates from what is standard or normal is not a part which emerges from the expansive transcendent function. . Choice (B)