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Modern Man in Search of a Soul

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The Work of Carl Jung is a website devoted to introducing new generations to the remarkable work of Swiss psychiatrist, Carl Gustav Jung (1875-1961), through his important work, Modern Man in Search of a Soul. For decades, Modern Man in Search of a Soul has introduced millions of people to the foundational concepts of Jungian Analytical Psychology: the origins of neurosis, dream interpretation, therapist as patient, helping stuck patients, mythology and religion, active imagination, therapy foraging people, psychology and the afterlife, the differences between Jung and Freud, mysticism, the symbols of artists, individuation, the collective unconscious, the shadow self, spiritual problems of modern man, and archetypes.

The Work of Carl Jung also provides important resources for Jungian education, including Jungian institutes and other Jungian organizations in North America. You’ll also find a comprehensive list of Jungian books to help expand your knowledge and understanding of one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century, Carl Jung.

The original publication of Modern Man in Search of a Soul was translated by W.S. Dell (1894-1975) and Cary F. Baynes (1883-1977). According to the translators, with one exception, all the essays which make up Modern Man in Search of a Soul have been delivered as lectures. The German texts of four of them have been brought out in separate publications and the others are to be found in a volume [Seelenprobleme der Gegenwart] together with several other essays which have already appeared in English.

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JUNGIAN TERMINOLOGY

Active imagination: A method of assimilating unconscious contents through some form of self-expression.

Anima: The inner feminine side of a man.

Animus: The inner masculine side of a woman.

Archetype: Primordial, structural elements of the human psyche.

Assimilation: The process of integrating outer objects and unconscious contents into consciousness.

Collective Unconscious: A structural layer of the human psyche containing inherited elements, distinct from the personal unconscious.

Consciousness: The function or activity which maintains the relation of psychic contents to the ego.

Ego: The central complex in the field of consciousness.

Enantiodromia: The emergence of the unconscious opposite in the course of time.

Individuation: A process of psychological differentiation, having for its goal the development of the individual personality.

Inflation: A state of mind characterized by an exaggerated sense of self-importance, often compensated by feelings of inferiority.

Jungian Analysis: A form of therapy aimed at bringing unconscious contents to consciousness.

Myth: An involuntary collective statement based on an unconscious psychic experience.

Neurosis: A psychological crisis due to a state of disunity with oneself.

Projection: An automatic process whereby contents of one’s own unconscious are perceived to be in others.

Psyche: The totality of all psychological processes, both conscious and unconscious.

Psychosis. An extreme dissociation of the personality due to the activity of unconscious complexes that are completely disconnected from consciousness.

Self: The archetype of wholeness and the regulating center of the psyche.

Shadow: Hidden or unconscious aspects of oneself which the ego has either repressed or never recognized.

Spirit: An archetype and a functional complex, often personified and experienced as enlivening.

Symbol: The best possible expression for something unknown.

Synchronicity: A phenomenon where an event in the outside world coincides meaningfully with a psychological state of mind.

Transcendent function: A psychic function that arises from the tension between consciousness and the unconscious and supports their union.

Unconscious: The totality of all psychic phenomena that lack the quality of consciousness.

Wholeness. A state in which consciousness and the unconscious work together in harmony.

From Daryl Sharp’s Jung Lexicon

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