Selected definitions for the understanding of the reader:
Archetype
"Primordial, structural elements of the human psyche."
"Primordial, structural elements of the human psyche."
Causal
"An approach to the interpretation of psychic phenomena based on cause and effect."
"An approach to the interpretation of psychic phenomena based on cause and effect."
Compensation
"A natural process aimed at establishing or maintaining balance within the psyche."
"A natural process aimed at establishing or maintaining balance within the psyche."
Consciousness
"...distinguished conceptually from the psyche, which encompasses both consciousness and the unconscious."
"...distinguished conceptually from the psyche, which encompasses both consciousness and the unconscious."
Constellate
"To activate, usually used with reference to a complex and an accompanying pattern of emotional reactions."
"To activate, usually used with reference to a complex and an accompanying pattern of emotional reactions."
Crucifixion
"An archetypal motif associated with conflict and the problem of the opposites."
"An archetypal motif associated with conflict and the problem of the opposites."
Dreams
"Independent, spontaneous manifestations of the unconscious; fragments of involuntary psychic activity just conscious enough to be reproducible in the waking state."
"Independent, spontaneous manifestations of the unconscious; fragments of involuntary psychic activity just conscious enough to be reproducible in the waking state."
Myth
"An involuntary collective statement based on an unconscious psychic experience."
"An involuntary collective statement based on an unconscious psychic experience."
Opposites
"...when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate."
"Christ, A Symbol of the Self," CW 9ii, par. 126.
"...when an inner situation is not made conscious, it happens outside, as fate."
"Christ, A Symbol of the Self," CW 9ii, par. 126.
Projection
"An automatic process whereby contents of one's own unconscious are perceived to be in others."
"An automatic process whereby contents of one's own unconscious are perceived to be in others."
Psyche
"The totality of all psychological processes, both conscious and unconscious."
"The totality of all psychological processes, both conscious and unconscious."
Sacrifice
"Psychologically, associated with the need to give up the world of childhood, often signaled by the regression of energy."
"Psychologically, associated with the need to give up the world of childhood, often signaled by the regression of energy."
Spirit
"Jung was careful to distinguish between spirit as a psychological concept and its traditional use in religion."
"The common modern idea of spirit ill accords with the Christian view, which regards it as the summum bonum, as God himself. To be sure, there is also the idea of an evil spirit. But the modern idea cannot be equated with that either, since for us spirit is not necessarily evil; we would have to call it morally indifferent or neutral."
"The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales," CW 9i, par. 394.
"Jung was careful to distinguish between spirit as a psychological concept and its traditional use in religion."
"The common modern idea of spirit ill accords with the Christian view, which regards it as the summum bonum, as God himself. To be sure, there is also the idea of an evil spirit. But the modern idea cannot be equated with that either, since for us spirit is not necessarily evil; we would have to call it morally indifferent or neutral."
"The Phenomenology of the Spirit in Fairytales," CW 9i, par. 394.
Synchronicity
"Synchronicity was defined by Jung as an 'acausal connecting principle,' an essentially mysterious connection between the personal psyche and the material world, based on the fact that at bottom they are only different forms of energy."
"Synchronicity was defined by Jung as an 'acausal connecting principle,' an essentially mysterious connection between the personal psyche and the material world, based on the fact that at bottom they are only different forms of energy."
Unconscious
"The totality of all psychic phenomena that lack the quality of consciousness."
"The unconscious...is the source of the instinctual forces of the psyche and of the forms or categories that regulate them, namely the archetypes."
"The Structure of the Psyche," CW 8, par. 342.
"The totality of all psychic phenomena that lack the quality of consciousness."
"The unconscious...is the source of the instinctual forces of the psyche and of the forms or categories that regulate them, namely the archetypes."
"The Structure of the Psyche," CW 8, par. 342.
Wounded Healer
"The wounded healer archetype can be schematized by a variation of the diagram used by Jung to illustrate the lines of communication in a relationship."
"The Psychology of the Transference," CW 16, par. 422.
"The drawing shows six double-headed arrows, indicating that communication can move in either direction - twelve ways in which information can pass between analyst and analysand."
"The wounded healer archetype can be schematized by a variation of the diagram used by Jung to illustrate the lines of communication in a relationship."
"The Psychology of the Transference," CW 16, par. 422.
"The drawing shows six double-headed arrows, indicating that communication can move in either direction - twelve ways in which information can pass between analyst and analysand."