Jung guide
A guide to Carl Jung’s psychology
Carl Gustav Jung (1875 to 1961) gave psychology some of its most enduring ideas: the collective unconscious, the archetypes, the shadow, introversion and extraversion, synchronicity. This guide explains each of them in plain language, with references to his Collected Works and to the scholars who have studied, extended and criticized them.
If you are new to Jung, start with the collective unconscious and the archetypes. Then read about the figures he found inside every personality, from the persona to the shadow, and finally about his methods: how he worked with dreams and with active imagination.
Archetype Matrix is an app where people around the world log the images that keep coming back to them, from dreams, moods and daily life. We do not interpret those images. This guide is the background: what Jung actually wrote, where he wrote it, and where his ideas are still debated.
Foundations
Who Jung was, and the two ideas his whole psychology rests on.
Who Was Carl Jung? Life, Work and Legacy
The Swiss psychiatrist who founded analytical psychology: his life, his books, his break with Freud and his legacy.
The Collective Unconscious: Jung’s Theory Explained
The deep layer of the psyche that Jung believed all human beings share, and the debate around it.
Jung’s Archetypes: Meaning, Examples and the Myth of the 12 Types
What an archetype is, the main figures Jung described, and where the popular list of 12 comes from.
Jung and Freud: Friendship, Break and Key Differences
Six years of friendship, a famous break, and the main differences between their theories.
The structure of the personality
The inner figures Jung described, and the lifelong process that brings them together.
Theories and methods
How Jung typed personalities, read dreams, worked with images and thought about meaningful coincidence.
Jung’s Psychological Types: Introversion, Extraversion and the Four Functions
Introversion, extraversion, the four functions, the inferior function, and how MBTI differs from Jung.
Jung on Dreams: How Jungian Dream Analysis Works
Compensation, amplification, the structure of a dream, and why Jung rejected dream dictionaries.
Active Imagination: Jung’s Method of Dialogue with the Unconscious
Jung’s method of letting inner images speak and answering them, born in the years of The Red Book.
Synchronicity: Jung’s Theory of Meaningful Coincidence
Meaningful coincidences, the scarab beetle case, Wolfgang Pauli, and the skeptical view.
