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Coniunctio
Coniunctio is an alchemical image Jung used to explore the psychological union of opposites and the possibility of a new, more inclusive attitude.
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Explore the central ideas of Jungian and analytical psychology.
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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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Enantiodromia
Enantiodromia is the emergence of an unconscious counter-position after a conscious attitude becomes rigid, extreme, or chronically one-sided.
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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.