Depth Psychology
10 findings, grouped by tradition.
Analytical Psychology10
- The Archetype and the Archetypal ImageIn 1929 Jung called the charge that he believed in 'inherited ideas' unjust; in 1936 he counted 'as many archetypes as there are typical situations in life'.
- The Word ArchetypeIn 1919 Jung said he took the term 'archetype' from Augustine. His 1954 revision says Augustine has the idea but not the term.
- The ShadowJung's 'identification with the shadow' (CW 7 §41) is a 1943 revision. Baynes's 1928 translation of the 1926 text has only 'this shadow side of the mind'.
- The AnimaThe Eve–Helen–Mary–Sophia ladder is one paragraph (§361) of Jung's 1946 alchemical study of the transference. He names no ancient source, only Goethe's Faust.
- The AnimusIts first sustained account is Emma Jung's Zurich lecture of November 1931, expanded in print in 1934; it became a book of her own only in 1957, after her death.
- The Gendering of Anima and AnimusIn 1987 the C. G. Jung Foundation's journal, Quadrant, printed 'Is the Animus Obsolete?', noting that feminist writers put the animus at the head of objectionable Jungian ideas.
- The PersonaThe persona as a segment of the collective psyche is 1916, not 1928. The 1917 English already says analysis shows 'what appeared to be individual is at bottom collective'.
- The SelfThe 'Self' definition in Psychological Types is not of 1921: Jung wrote it for the 1960 Gesammelte Werke. In 1921 the self appeared only under the definition of the ego.
- IndividuationJung's 1921 Definitions make individuation conditional on prior adaptation to collective norms. In 1916 he called whoever individuates without repaying society a deserter.
- Carl Gustav JungMemories, Dreams, Reflections (1962), usually read as Jung's autobiography, was assembled by Aniela Jaffé from interviews begun in 1957. It draws on less than half of them, as Sonu Shamdasani's complete edition of 2025 shows.