Sublime

: la psychologie des profondeurs. À travers les grands concepts qu’il a élaborés – la synchronicité, les complexes, l’inconscient collectif, les archétypes, les types psychologiques, l’anima et l’animus, l’ombre, la persona, le processus d’individuation –, Jung apporte un regard sur l’être humain et son rapport au monde qui non seulement bouleverse

La deuxième grande découverte de Jung concernant la psyché, et sans doute celle qui contribuera le plus à sa renommée, est qu’il existe chez tout individu un inconscient aux contenus impersonnels, c’est-à-dire collectifs. Si le conscient et l’inconscient personnel se construisent au fil d’une vie, l’inconscient collectif, lui, est hérité. Nous ne

For Freud, it was the recovery of lost and repressed memories for the sake of healing and the adaptation of the instincts to the requirements of civilization. For C. G. Jung, it was facing and integrating the personal and collective pieces of the shadow in service to a sense of wholeness.

In the past, that is to say up to fifty years ago, the doctor’s psychological training was still very bad. His psychiatric textbooks were wholly confined to clinical descriptions and the systematization of mental diseases, and the psychology taught in the universities was either philosophy or the so-called “experimental psychology” inaugurated by

Jung didn’t actually choose psychiatry; psychiatry chose him. Psychiatry is what nature wanted to do through Jung and resisting the power of nature is a tall task. We, Westerners, are often helpless in the face of nature’s unique vision for us. Yet, this is precisely what makes us valuable, unique individuals.

Carl Jung brilliantly revealed this in his study of dreams, religious imagery, and mythology. The unconscious lives in a world of universal symbols more powerful than logic. The Source is one of those symbols.