Jung: Foundations

A map of the psyche, drawn from what it actually produces

A course on the thought of Carl Jung.

Course outline

1. The Splinter in the Psyche — The empirical starting point: in the word-association experiment, a delayed or disturbed reaction betrays a *complex* — a feeling-toned cluster of ideas that behaves with a will of its own, biasing…
2. The Floor Beneath the Floor — The decisive extension beyond Freud: below the *personal unconscious* of one's own forgotten and repressed material lies a deeper, impersonal *collective unconscious* — a layer common to all…
3. The Form and the Thousand Faces — The contents of the collective unconscious are the *archetypes*: inherited forms — not fixed pictures — that organize experience into universal patterns (the mother, the hero, the shadow), each…
4. The Mask and the Other — The two nearest figures of the psyche's structure: the *persona*, the mask of adaptation one turns toward society, and the *shadow*, the inferior, disowned side one refuses in oneself and projects…
5. The Inner Other, and the Two Attitudes — Two remaining pieces of the map. First the *anima* (in a man) and *animus* (in a woman) — the contrasexual image carried within, met, like the shadow, through projection. Then *typology*: two…
6. Becoming Whole — The goal that gathers the whole map: *individuation*, the lifelong process of becoming a whole, indivisible person by integrating the unconscious opposites — persona and shadow, the contrasexual…

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