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The unconscious, individuation and the framework of analytical psychology.
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The Unconscious
The collective unconscious is an idea from the Swiss psychiatrist Carl Gustav Jung. He suggested that beneath the personal unconscious lies a deeper layer shared by all human beings, through which recurring patterns — archetypes — take shape in myths, dreams and stories across cultures.
Read entry →Individuation & the Self
The persona is the social face we show to others. Jung used this idea to explain how we adapt to different roles, and what happens when one role begins to define who we think we are.
Read entry →Individuation is Jung’s term for the lifelong process of becoming more fully oneself, by getting to know and bringing into relationship the parts of the personality that do not fit the image we have of ourselves. It is an interpretive idea from Jungian psychology, not a measurable stage or a technique.
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