The Jungian Psyche

Carl Jung.

1. Carl Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and psychotherapist who founded analytical psychology. His work has been influential not only in psychiatry but also in philosophy, anthropology, archaeology, literature, and religious studies.
2. According to Jungian psychology, individuation is a process of psychological integration whereby the personal and collective unconscious are brought into consciousness, active imagination, or free association to be assimilated into the whole personality.
3. Collective unconscious is a term coined by Carl Jung that refers to structures of the unconscious mind which are shared among human beings.


The Norse trickster god Loki as depicted on an 18th-century Icelandic manuscript.

4. Jungian archetypes are highly developed elements of the collective unconscious, universal, archaic patterns and images which are the psychic counterpart of instinct.
5. A complex is a core pattern of emotions, memories, perceptions, and wishes in the personal unconscious organized around a common theme, such as power or status.
6. The persona, for Swiss psychiatrist Carl Jung, was the social face the individual presented to the world.
7. An archetype of the collective unconscious, the anima and animus can be identified as the totality of the unconscious feminine psychological qualities that a man possesses or the masculine ones possessed by a woman, respectively.