Jung Glossary

The following are posts about concepts and terms commonly used in Jungian psychology. Links are provided at the end of this page for those who want to explore them in more depth. This is a work in progress; as posts are completed the page will be updated.

I've also put together an Introduction to Jung. This is a curriculum of sorts, an organized list of topics presented in a specific order that will provide a broad overview of just about everything you need to know to become familiar with Jung and his ideas.


A

Abaissement du Niveau Mental (see "Depression")
Abreaction
Absolute Knowledge
Abstraction
Active Imagination
Adaptation
Affect
Albedo
Alchemy
Amplification
Analytical Psychology
Anima
Animus
Anthropos
Apotropaic
Apperception
Archaic
Archaic Identity (see "Participation Mystique")
Archetypal Image
Archetypal Psychology
Archetypes
Artifex
Assimilation
Association
Attitude
Autonomous
Auxiliary Functions
Axiom of Maria


C

Canalization
Calcinatio
Child
Chthonic
Circumbanbulation
Citrinitas
Coagulatio
Collective
Collective Unconscious
Compensation
Complex
Concretism
Coniunctio
Consciousness
Constellation
Constructive
Contamination
Countertransference
Crone


D

Daimon
Demiurge
Depotentiation
Depression
Depth Psychology
Differentiation
Dissociation
Dominant Function (see "Primary Function")
Dream
Dream Analysis
Dream Interpretation
Dream Series


E

Ego
Ego-Self Axis
Emotion (see "Affect")
Enantiodromia
Energy (see "Libido")
Eros
Extroversion (also “extraversion”)


F

Father
Father Complex
Feeling Function
Four Functions (see "Psychological Functions")


G

Grandiosity (see "Inflation")
Great Mother (see "Mother")


H

Heirosgamos (see "Coniunctio")
Hero's Journey
Heroine's Journey (see "Night Sea Journey")
Hostile Brothers
Hysteria


I

Identification
Imago
Incest
Individual
Individuation
Inferior Function
Inflation
Instinct
Integration
Integrating the Four Functions
Introjection
Intuition Function
Introversion
Invasion (see "Possession")
Irrational Functions


K

King & Queen
Kore


L

Lapis Philosophorum (see "Philosopher's Stone")
Libido
Logos
Loss of Soul
Lysis


M

Magnum Opus
Mana Personality
Mandala
Myers–Briggs Type Indicator ("MBTI")
Mortificatio
Mother
Mother Complex
Myths


N

Negative Inflation
Nekyia (see "Night Sea Journey")
Neurosis
Night Sea Journey
Nigredo
Numinous


O

Objective Level
Objectivation
Opposites


P

Participation Mystique
Persona
Personal Unconscious
Personality
Personality Types (see "Typology")
Personification
Philosopher's Stone
Possession (see "Identification")
Power Complex (also "Power drive")
Prima Materia
Primary Function
Primitive (see "Archaic")
Progression
Projection
Psyche
Psychoid
Psychological Functions (see also "Integrating the Four Functions")
Psychosis
Provisional Life (see "Puer/puella aeternus")
Psychopomp
Puer/Puella Aeternus


Q

Quaternity
Queen (see "King & Queen")


R

Rational Functions
Rebirth
Reductive
Reflection
Regression
Regressive Restoration of the Persona
Religious Attitude
Repression
Rubedo


S

Schizophrenia
Self
Self-regulation of the Psyche
Senex
Sensation Function
Separatio
Shadow
Solutio
Soul
Spirit
Subjective Level
Sublimatio
Superior Function (see "Primary Function")
Supraordinate Personality (see "Self")
Symbiosis
Symbols
Synchronicity
Syzygy


T

Teleological point of view (see "Constructive")
Tenemos
Tertiary function
Tertium Non Datur
Thinking Function
Transcendent Function
Transference
Trickster
Typology


U

Unconscious
Unus Mundus


W

Wholeness
Will
Wise Old Woman/Man
Wounded Healer



Links:

Jungian Terms (Jung Platform)
Glossary of Jungian Terms (Carl-Jung.net)
Glossary of Jungian Terms (Tallahassee Center for Jungian Studies)
A Glossary of Jungian Terms (Terrapsychology Page)
Jung Lexicon: A Primer of Terms & Concepts (Abed Continuing Ed.)
Jungian Psychology: Glossary of Key Concepts (End of the Game)
Analytical Psychology (Wikipedia)
Jungian Techniques: Individuation, Active Imagination and Dream Interpretation
MBTI Basics (The Myers-Briggs Foundation)



Further Reading

The following books are a good introduction to Jung, for those wishing to explore these topics in more depth:

Memories, Dreams, Reflections by CG Jung
Man and His Symbols by CG Jung
Jung: A Very Short Introduction by Anthony Stevens
Jung's Map of the Soul by Murray Stein
Ego and Archetype by Edward F. Edinger
A Guided Tour of The Collected Works of C.G. Jung by Robert H. Hopcke
Understanding Dreams by Mary Ann Mattoon
Dreams, A Portal to the Source by Edward C. Whitmont and Sylvia Brinton Perera
A Critical Dictionary of Jungian Analysis by Andrew Samuels and Bani Shorter
The Handbook of Jungian Psychology: Theory, Practice and Applications by Renos K. Papadopoulos
Personality Types by Daryl Sharp

Deirdre Bair's top 10 Jungian books (by the author of the excellent biography, Jung: A Biography)
C.G. Jung’s Collected Works: Abstracts, IAAP (full abstracts of every volume of the Collected Works)


Also, if you're interested in an excellent introduction to Jung you should definitely check out analyst John Betts' podcast Jungian's Podcast. It's available on iTunes.

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