Active Imagination
Active imagination is Jung’s method of consciously engaging emerging images, emotions, or figures through sustained attention and expression while preserving awareness and judgment.
Tradition: Jungian
Synchronicity
Synchronicity is Jung’s term for a meaningful coincidence between an inner psychological state and an external event when no adequate causal connection is apparent.
Animus
Animus is Jung’s historical term for an inner masculine archetypal figure in a woman, associated with opinion, agency, meaning, and mediation between consciousness and the unconscious.
Projection
Projection is the largely unconscious process of experiencing one’s own psychological content as if it belonged primarily or entirely to another person, group, or object.
Anima
Anima is Jung’s historical term for an inner feminine archetypal figure in a man, associated with feeling, relationship, imagery, and mediation between consciousness and the unconscious.
Self
The Self is Jung’s concept of the whole psyche—conscious and unconscious—and the archetypal principle of its organization, development, and potential integration.
Archetype
An archetype is an inherited organizing pattern in Jung’s theory that can shape recurring forms of imagery, emotion, perception, and behavior without prescribing one fixed image.
Ego
In Jungian psychology, the ego is the central complex of consciousness: the organizing “I” that experiences identity, makes choices, and adapts to inner and outer life.
Personal Unconscious
In Jungian psychology, the personal unconscious contains experiences, perceptions, and emotionally charged material outside an individual’s present awareness.
Complex
In Jungian psychology, a complex is an emotionally charged network of associations that can temporarily influence perception, emotion, and behavior.