Jungian Psychology Concepts | Individuationing

Compensation

Compensation is the psyche’s tendency to balance or supplement a one-sided conscious attitude through dreams, emotions, fantasies, symptoms, and neglected perspectives.

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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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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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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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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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Intuition

Intuition is the Jungian function that perceives possibilities, patterns, and implications through unconscious processes rather than direct sensory evidence.