Imago Dei on the Psychological Plane

Jung takes the biblical myth of humanity as created in the image of God into his psychological theory and gives it a modern rendition in his personality theory, identifying the self as equivalent to the imago Dei. This essay explores some of the continuities and differences between the biblical and the depth psychological renditions of this idea. In modernity, the archeological record of humanity's emergence on the planet must also be considered. By identifying the self with the imago Dei and grounding the self in the archetypal domain, Jungian psychology extends the range of human potential and responsibility considerably beyond what can be offered by ego psychology in and of itself, linking the human psyche profoundly to the unus mundus

Epistemology · Humanity · Id, ego and super-ego · Imago · Modernity · Mythology · Psyche · Psychoanalysis · Theology · Jungian Analytical Psychology · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Psychology · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices