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The concept of this individualized soul-image has a long, complicated history; its appearance in cultures is diverse and widespread and the names for it are legion. Only our contemporary psychology and psychiatry omit it from their textbooks. The study and therapy of the psyche in our society ignore this factor, which other cultures regard as the

James Hillman • The Soul's Code

This summoning of internal imagery may seem like the description of miraculous oracular powers, but it is really the simple process of uncovering something our deeper psyche already knows. The deep psyche or soul, left to find its way, will offer up or recognize in the outer world the images germane to its place on the path of life.

David Whyte • The Heart Aroused: Poetry and the Preservation of the Soul in Corporate America

Psyche is the part of you that can be separated from your body.

Kathryn Nuernberger • The Witch of Eye

The word “psychedelic” is taken from the Greek words psychē (“soul”) and dēloun (“to make visible”, “to reveal”).

Anthony Peake • The Hidden Universe

By creating a container and allowing the deeper, dreamier, more instinctive and strangeful parts of yourself to mingle, synergize, fight, wither, and attract new creatures into their branches — you allow something special and robust to assert itself. You allow yourself to become the Psyche, not just the ego.

River Kenna • Rewilding the Psyche

Jung’s life-long exploration of the powerful, archetypal forces of the unconscious led him to conclude that they “possess a specific energy which causes or compels definite modes of behavior or impulses; that is, they may under certain circumstances have a possessive or obsessive force (numinosity!). The conception of them as daimonia is therefore

Connie Zweig • Meeting the Shadow

Jung, especially, developed a psychotherapy that was oriented toward soul. Unlike Freud, who viewed the unconscious as a boiling cauldron of evil impulses, Jung uncovered our lost creative impulses lying there, as well as the lost gods or mythological images that he called archetypes.

Steven Wolf • Romancing the Shadow

This, in a nutshell, is the claim of panpsychism, literally, the position that “everything” (pan-) is “minded” or “psyche’ed” (psychism). Such an answer, by the way, is already coded in a way that links “mind” and “life,” since the Greek psyche referenced both (as well as “soul,” by the way).