Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Memories, Dreams, Reflections

Memories, Dreams, Reflections is a semi-autobiographical account assembled from Carl Jung’s recollections, manuscripts, and conversations with editor Aniela Jaffé.

Aniela Jaffé

Aniela Jaffé

Aniela Jaffé was a German-born Swiss Jungian analyst, author, and longtime collaborator who recorded and edited the material behind Memories, Dreams, Reflections.

Symbol Amplification

Symbol amplification in Jungian psychology

Symbol amplification is a Jungian method of comparing an image with mythic, religious, artistic, historical, and cultural parallels while staying anchored to personal context.

Wise Old Person

Wise old person archetype in Jungian psychology

The Wise Old Person is an archetypal guide figure associated with meaning, counsel, insight, and the danger of identifying with borrowed authority.

Mandala

Mandala symbolism in Jungian psychology

A mandala is a centered, often circular symbolic form that Jung associated with psychic order, wholeness, containment, and the Self.

Man and His Symbols

Man and His Symbols

Man and His Symbols is an illustrated introduction to dreams, symbols, archetypes, and individuation written by Carl Jung and four close collaborators for general readers.

Marie-Louise von Franz

Marie-Louise von Franz

Marie-Louise von Franz was a Swiss Jungian analyst and scholar known for her work on dreams, fairy tales, alchemy, and the process of individuation.

Dream Journaling

Dream journaling practice for Jungian dream work

Dream journaling is the practice of recording dreams promptly and preserving their sequence, atmosphere, images, emotions, and personal associations.

Great Mother

Great Mother archetype in Jungian psychology

The Great Mother is an archetypal pattern of origin, nourishment, protection, fertility, containment, engulfment, and destructive power.

Inferior Function

Inferior Function

The inferior function is the least differentiated function in a person’s conscious typology and the opposite of the dominant function.