amplification
“Amplification was a technique Jung used when he encountered collective material in dreams. It is rather like gathering the free associations of the entire cultural canon to a particular image–mythology, religious iconography, folk lore, literature, etc.”
Donald Kalsched, Trauma and the Soul (p. 65)
archetype
see archetypes page
“The archetypes are formal factors responsible for the organization of unconscious psychic processes: they are “patterns of behavior.” At the same time they have a “specific charge” and develop numinous effects which express themselves as affects.”
Carl Jung, Synchronicity (p. 28)
“Archetypes are energy fields innate in our psyches. They are like hidden magnets. We cannot see them, but we can see their images and we are propelled by their energy.”
Marion Woodman, Leaving my Father’s House (1992, p. 13)
“As the word itself implies, archetypes are related to types—types in the sense of a characteristic trait or a set of qualities that seem to appear together over and over again in recognizable, spontaneously recurring patterns.”
Robert A. Johnson, Inner Work (p. 29)
ego
“The term ego refers to one’s experience of oneself as a center of willing, desiring, reflecting, and acting… The ego is a kind of mirror in which the psyche can see itself and can become aware.”
Murray Stein, Jung’s Map of the Soul (p. 15)
individuation
“The indwelling soul confers a feeling of being real–a sense that we have a God-given right to be here. At its best, then, psychotherapy is partly a spiritual discipline helping both parties participate in this world as a potential space in which both material and spiritual energies support each other toward the goal of what Jung called individuation–realizing your destiny, becoming who you really are, becoming an ensouled person.”
Donald Kalsched, Trauma and the Soul (p. 19)
“Individuation is the term Jung used to refer to the lifelong process of becoming the complete human beings we were born to be. Individuation is our waking up to our total selves, allowing our conscious personalities to develop until they include all the basic elements that are inherent in each of us at the preconscious level. “
Robert A. Johnson, Inner Work (p. 11)
myth
“Myth is the primordial language natural to these psychic processes, and no intellectual formulation comes anywhere near the richness and expressiveness of mythical imagery.”
Jung, Psychology and Alchemy
“Myths are dramatic, personified descriptions of a non-human or quasi-human realm of tragical, monstrous. fantastic figures which are beyond the grasp of the conscious mind. These figures constitute the very basis, the prima materia, of psychic life.”
Avens, R (1980)
Imagination in Jung and Hillman (p. 41)
paradigm
“A paradigm can be defined to be personal beliefs or ideas that shape a field.”
John W. Creswell, 30 Skills for the qualitative researcher
paranoia
“Paranoia is the attitude of overinterpretation in the service of survival.”
Adam Phillips, Missing Out (p. 70)
transference / countertransference
Ulanov, Ann Belford. (1982). Transference/countertransference: A Jungian perspective.
(1st ed.) In Stein, M. (Ed.). Jungian analysis. Open Court.
unconscious
The unconscious is an irrepresentable totality of all subliminal psychic factors, a “total vision” in potentia. It constitutes the total disposition from which consciousness singles out tiny fragments from time to time.
Carl Jung, Psychology and Religion