The Personal and The Transpersonal Psyche

Human Suffering, the Archetypes and the Clinical Encounter

Dados Bibliográficos

ID8983293
AutoresMax Phillips (0000-0002-2464-4455, London UK, autor correspondente)
Ano2024
Volume69
Fascículo3
Páginas367-388
Data de publicação2024-05-10
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessSim
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoJournal of Analytical Psychology (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0021-8774 • E-ISSN: 1465-5922
EditoraWiley (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1111/1468-5922.13010
PMID38726595
OpenAlexW4396805494
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas1
Referências citadas9

While Jung's notion of archetypes has had far-reaching universal appeal and significance, it remains less obvious how these ideas might benefit the analytic patient. In particular, the therapist and/or patient may struggle to hold the tension between the latter's personal neuroses and how transpersonal/archetypal elements inform his/her experience. While Jung strove to develop a treatment that dealt primarily with the archetypal/objective psyche, the personal psyche is arguably the medium through which the archetypes are experienced. I contend that the "discipline" of Jungian analysis evolved from a transposition of Jung's ideas around transpersonal, philosophical and religious themes (borne out of his own self-analysis), into a two-person psychotherapeutic process. Jung provides little description of his clinical encounters and the way in which he conducted his analyses leaving an uncertainty that has likely contributed to the divergence of approaches practised today by analytical psychologists. This article considers the implication of these divergences for contemporary Jungian practice and proposes a way of working in the Jungian spirit that maintains a connection to the symbolic realm while at the same time remaining focused on the complexities of personal and relational dynamics

Analytical psychology · Archetype · Epistemology · Individuation · Psyche · Psychoanalysis · Psychotherapist · Realm · Sociology · Transpersonal · Transpersonal psychology · Jungian Analytical Psychology · Law · Philosophy · Psychology · Psychotherapy Techniques and Applications · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices