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Participation Mystique
Participation mystique is a Jungian term for an unconscious state of identity in which the boundary between subject and object, self and other, is insufficiently differentiated.
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Explore the central ideas of Jungian and analytical psychology.
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Psychological Inflation
Psychological inflation is an expanded or diminished self-estimate caused by identifying the ego with an archetype, role, group, insight, or unconscious content.
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Psychological Opposites
Psychological opposites are conflicting conscious and unconscious positions whose tension can reveal one-sidedness and support development.
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Transcendent Function
The transcendent function is the new psychological attitude or symbolic possibility that can emerge when conscious and unconscious positions are held in genuine dialogue.
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Mandala
A mandala is a centered, often circular symbolic form that Jung associated with psychic order, wholeness, containment, and the Self.
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Inferior Function
The inferior function is the least differentiated function in a person's conscious typology and the opposite of the dominant function.
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Dominant Function
The dominant function is the psychological function a person uses most habitually and has developed most fully under conscious control.
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Auxiliary Function
The auxiliary function supports the dominant function by adding a different mode of perception or judgment and helping consciousness adapt more flexibly.
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Sensation
Sensation is the Jungian function that perceives immediate concrete reality through the physical senses and awareness of bodily states.
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Intuition
Intuition is the Jungian function that perceives possibilities, patterns, and implications through unconscious processes rather than direct sensory evidence.