Depth Psychology
Integrating the Archetypes
A Summary of “The Relation Between the Ego and the Unconscious” by Carl Jung (1928)
“The Relations Between the Ego and the Unconscious”, originally published in 1928, provides a clear and comprehensive introduction to Jungian analysis, analytical psychology, and Jung’s theory of the unconscious.
It is a summation of Jung’s discoveries from 28 years of psychiatric practice, and is likely the best introduction from a primary source that is available to Jung’s work, discussing how we can confront and integrate archetypes from the collective unconscious.
The essay is collected in Volume 7 of Jung’s Collected Works, along with the essay “On the Psychology of the Unconscious”, which provides a more general introduction to Jungian theory, and its place within the psychoanalytic tradition. The volume is aptly titled, Two Essays on Analytical Psychology.
We proceed now with a simplified abridgement of the text.
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