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.
Tradition: Analytical Psychology
The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious
The Archetypes and the Collective Unconscious collects major essays in which Carl Jung develops his accounts of archetypes, collective psychic patterns, rebirth, the mother, the child, and individuation.
Sandplay Therapy
Sandplay therapy is a clinical, expressive method in which a client creates scenes with sand, water, and miniatures within a protected therapeutic relationship.
Dora Kalff
Dora Kalff was a Swiss therapist who developed Jungian sandplay therapy by integrating Margaret Lowenfeld’s World Technique with analytical psychology.
Trickster
The Trickster is an archetypal boundary-breaker whose humor, appetite, deception, mistakes, and reversals can expose rigidity while also causing real harm.
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.
The Red Book: Liber Novus
The Red Book: Liber Novus records and artistically develops Carl Jung’s confrontation with inner figures and images during a formative period of his psychology.
Emma Jung
Emma Jung was a Swiss Jungian analyst and author known for her work on the anima and animus, the Grail legend, and the early analytical psychology movement.
Circumambulation
Circumambulation is a Jungian method of staying close to one image while examining it repeatedly from different personal, emotional, symbolic, and practical viewpoints.
Child
The Child archetype represents vulnerable beginnings, unrealized potential, renewal, dependence, abandonment, and a future personality still developing.