analytical psychology#Archetypes
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Analytical psychology ({{langx|de|analytische Psychologie}}, sometimes translated as analytic psychology; also Jungian analysis) is a term referring to the psychological practices of Carl Jung. It was designed to distinguish it from Freud's psychoanalytic theories as their seven-year collaboration on psychoanalysis was drawing to an end between 1912 and 1913.{{Cite book |last=Jung |first=C. G. |author-link=Carl Jung |title=Neue Bahnen in der Psychologie |date=1912 |location=Zürich |language=de |trans-title=New Pathways in Psychology}}{{Cite book |last1=Samuels |first1=Andrew |author-link=Andrew Samuels |title=A Critical Dictionary of Jungian Analysis |last2=Shorter |first2=B. |last3=Plaut |first3=F. |date=1986 |publisher=Routledge and Kegan Paul |isbn=978-0-415-05910-7 |location=London}}{{Cite encyclopedia |title=Analytic Psychology |encyclopedia=Encyclopaedia Britannica |url=https://www.britannica.com/topic/analytic-psychology}} The evolution of his science is contained in his monumental opus, the Collected Works, written over sixty years of his lifetime.{{Cite book |url=http://press.princeton.edu/titles/10294.html |title=Collected Works of C.G. Jung, Complete Digital Edition |date=March 2014 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=9781400851065 |access-date=23 January 2014}}
The history of analytical psychology is intimately linked with the biography of Jung. At the start, it was known as the "Zurich school", whose chief figures were Eugen Bleuler, Franz Riklin, Alphonse Maeder and Jung, all centred in the Burghölzli hospital in Zurich. It was initially a theory concerning psychological complexes until Jung, upon breaking with Sigmund Freud, turned it into a generalised method of investigating archetypes and the unconscious, as well as into a specialised psychotherapy.
Analytical psychology, or "complex psychology", from the {{langx |de|Komplexe Psychologie}}, is the foundation of many developments in the study and practice of psychology as of other disciplines. Jung has many followers, and some of them are members of national societies around the world. They collaborate professionally on an international level through the International Association of Analytical Psychologists (IAAP) and the International Association for Jungian Studies (IAJS). Jung's propositions have given rise to a multidisciplinary literature in numerous languages.
Among widely used concepts specific to analytical psychology are anima and animus, archetypes, the collective unconscious, complexes, extraversion and introversion, individuation, the Self, the shadow and synchronicity.{{Cite book |last=Fordham |first=Michael |title=Jungian Psychotherapy: A Study in Analytical Psychology |date=1978 |publisher=Wiley & Sons |isbn=0-471-99618-1 |location=London |pages=1–8}}{{Cite book |last=Stevens |first=Anthony |title=Archetype: A Natural History of the Self |date=1990 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415052207 |location=Hove}} The Myers–Briggs Type Indicator (MBTI) is loosely based on another of Jung's theories on psychological types.{{Cite book |last=Jung |first=Carl Gustav |title=Collected Works of C. G. Jung, Volume 6 |date=1 August 1971 |publisher=Princeton University Press |isbn=978-0-691-09770-1 |chapter=Psychological Types}}{{page needed |date=December 2017}}{{Citation |last1=McCrae |first1=R. |title=Reinterpreting the Myers-Briggs Type Indicator from the perspective of the five-factor model of personality. |year=1989 |last2=Costa |first2=P.}} A lesser known idea was Jung's notion of the Psychoid to denote a hypothesised immanent plane beyond consciousness, distinct from the collective unconscious, and a potential locus of synchronicity.{{Cite journal |last=Addison |first=Ann |date=2009 |title=Jung, vitalism and 'the psychoid': an historical reconstruction |journal=Journal of Analytical Psychology |volume=54 |issue=1 |pages=123–142 |doi=10.1111/j.1468-5922.2008.01762.x |pmid=19161521}}
The approximately "three schools" of post-Jungian analytical psychology that are current, the classical, archetypal and developmental, can be said to correspond to the developing yet overlapping aspects of Jung's lifelong explorations, even if he expressly did not want to start a school of "Jungians".{{rp|pp=50–53}}{{Cite book |last=Samuels |first=Andrew |url=https://archive.org/details/jungpostjungians00samu_0/page/11 |title=Jung and the Post-Jungians |date=1985 |publisher=Routledge & Kegan Paul |isbn=0-7100-9958-4 |location=London |pages=11–21}} Hence as Jung proceeded from a clinical practice which was mainly traditionally science-based and steeped in rationalist philosophy, anthropology and ethnography, his enquiring mind simultaneously took him into more esoteric spheres such as alchemy, astrology, gnosticism, metaphysics, myth and the paranormal, without ever abandoning his allegiance to science as his long-lasting collaboration with Wolfgang Pauli attests.{{Cite book |last=Remo |first=F. Roth |title=Return of the World Soul, Wolfgang Pauli, C. G. Jung and the Challenge of Psychophysical Reality [unus mundus], Part 2: A Psychophysical Theory |date=2012 |publisher=Pari Publishing |isbn=978-88-95604-16-9}} His wide-ranging progression suggests to some commentators that, over time, his analytical psychotherapy, informed by his intuition and teleological investigations, became more of an "art".
The findings of Jungian analysis and the application of analytical psychology to {{Cite journal |last=Merchant |first=John |date=May 31, 2024 |title=Working Online During the Contemporary COVID-19 Pandemic |journal=Journal of Analytical Psychology |volume=68 |issue=2 |pages=281–300 |doi=10.1111/1468-5922.12899|pmid=36866701 }} contemporary preoccupations such as social and family relationships,{{Cite book |title=The Father: Contemporary Jungian Perspectives |date=1985 |publisher=Free Association Books |isbn=978-0-946960-28-6 |editor-last=Samuels |editor-first=Andrew |location=London}}{{page needed|date=October 2022}} dreams and nightmares, work–life balance,{{Cite journal |last=Kutek |first=Ann |date=1999 |title=The terminal as a substitute for the interminable? |journal=Psychodynamic Counselling |volume=5 |pages=7–24 |doi=10.1080/13533339908404188}} architecture and urban planning,{{Cite book |last=Huskinson, Lucy |title=Architecture and the Mimetic Self: A Psychoanalytic Study of How Buildings Make and Break Our Lives |date=2018 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-415-69303-5}}{{page needed|date=October 2022}} politics and economics, conflict and warfare,{{Cite book |last=Redfearn |first=J. W. T. |author-link=J.W.T. Redfearn |title=The Exploding Self: The Creative and Destructive Nucleus of the Personality |date=1992 |publisher=Chiron}}{{page needed|date=October 2022}} and climate change are illustrated in several publications and films.{{Cite AV media |url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ci9nfJbvBjY |title=Wisdom of the Dream (Carl Jung) |publisher=Clayton Micallef - Explore Your Inner World |via=YouTube}}{{Cite book |last=Hubback |first=Judith |author-link=Judith Hubback |url=https://archive.org/details/peoplewhodothing00hubb |title=People Who Do Things to Each Other |date=2013 |publisher=Chiron Publishers |isbn=978-0-933029279 |url-access=registration}}{{page needed|date=October 2022}}{{Cite book |last=Schaverien |first=Joy |title=Boarding School Syndrome |date=2015 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0415690034}}{{Cite book |title=Depth Psychology and Climate Change: The Green Book |date=2021 |publisher=Routledge |isbn=978-0-367-23721-9 |editor-last=Mathers |editor-first=Dale}}{{page needed|date=October 2022}}