Analytical Psychology

Analytical psychology is the name Jung gave to his own school of depth psychology after his break with Freud in 1913, chosen to distinguish the discipline both from Freudian psychoanalysis and from Adler’s individual psychology. The name carries Jung’s insistence that the work is analytic — taking the psyche apart into its structural elements (complex, archetype, function, persona, shadow, anima/animus, Self) — rather than psycho-analytic in Freud’s narrower sense.

The core commitments of analytical psychology: the objective reality of the collective-unconscious; the complex as the empirical unit of psychic life; the archetype as the universal structuring pattern; individuation as the developmental arc of the personality toward the realization of the Self; the transcendent-function as the psychic operation by which opposites are integrated through symbol. The discipline’s institutional vessel since 1948 is the C.G. Jung Institute of Zurich (see jung-institute-zurich); its international governing body is the IAAP.

Relationships

• carl-jung
• individuation
• archetype
• complex