Journal of Analytical Psychology
August 10, 2026
Celia Ortega Goméz, José Luis Díaz Palencia
Abstract Analytical psychology and modern physics have opened windows to describe aspects (or even one single substance) of reality. The notions of archetypes and the collective unconscious suggest that dreams carry symbolic messages from the area of psychic potential, while quantum neuroscience posits that consciousness and brain activity may be influenced by quantum‐level phenomena beyond...
Journal of Analytical Psychology
May 19, 2026
Konstantin Rößler
The publication of Sigmund Freud’s The Interpretation of Dreams (1900/2000) marked the birth of psychoanalysis in the public consciousness. Since then, therapeutic work with dreams has formed a central element for the practice and teaching of all schools in the tradition of psychoanalysis and depth psychology. Nevertheless, it is precisely this core element of work with unconscious contents...
Journal of Analytical Psychology
May 10, 2026
L. Stein
The increasing, convincing scientific studies of the usefulness of psychedelics for promoting changes for the ego calls for analysts to take a position in relation to these substances. In appropriate cases, they may be considered as an aid to Jungian psychoanalysis, yet they remain controversial and outside the traditional realm of our therapeutic modality. The purpose of the plenary and this...
Journal of Analytical Psychology
April 1, 2026
Kan Chen, Xiao You
Abstract This study explores spiritual experiences in online video games and dreams from the perspective of analytical psychology, focusing on how such experiences activate the archetype of initiation in adolescents. Method: The present study adopted a Jungian psychological perspective to analyse symbols and psychological processes emerging in dreams that occurred after interaction with video...
Journal of Analytical Psychology
November 1, 2025
Henrique C. Pereira
AbstractA 35‐year‐old woman patient had an unusual dream with a catastrophic plot. The protagonist of the dream is a girl who lives on an island; she makes a wish that there will always be a sun in the sky. After that, 30 additional smaller suns appear in the sky, so that it never gets completely dark. Due to her wish, a strange phenomenon occurs: a huge black octopus emerges from the ocean and...
Journal of Analytical Psychology
April 27, 2025
L. Stein, M. Stein
The mystery of the role of the brain in the formation of consciousness is the subject of endless philosophical and neuroscientific speculation. The ongoing, intertwined processes of the unconscious and the ego, what Jung defines as that which creates consciousness, opens the inquiry as to the role of the structures and functions of the brain in individuation. The purpose of this paper is to...
Journal of Analytical Psychology
May 29, 2024
Erik D. Goodwyn
3 citations
For a significant part of its history, archetype theory has been undermined by criticisms containing unexamined Cartesian assumptions. Such assumptions treat all cognition as disembodied, consisting of mere manipulation of abstract, inherently meaningless signs mimicked from verbal instruction or cultural learning. Since the 1980s, due to the results of many independent disciplines, however,...
Journal of Analytical Psychology
February 1, 2020
Ole Vedfelt
The various ways schools of psychotherapy relate to dreams have been marked by isolationism and mutual conflict rather than self-examination and then integrating the discoveries and methods of other schools. Jung's method was in opposition to Freud's psychoanalysis. Existential psychology was dismissive of Freud's and Jung's discoveries, while cognitive dream interpretation and cognitive...
Journal of Analytical Psychology
May 20, 2008
Warren Colman
29 citations
This paper(1) takes the distinction between being conscious ('core consciousness') and knowing that one is conscious (self-reflexive consciousness) as a starting point for differentiating between three different aspects of the self: 1) the overall process of psychosomatic being which we share with all living creatures and which expresses itself through action (self as totality), 2) the...
Journal of Analytical Psychology
October 25, 2005
Maria Ilena Marozza
2 citations
The paper investigates the origin of the meaning of dreams starting with a discussion of psychotic dreams. The author distinguishes the dream as dream from the remembered and the narrated. A two-step dream phenomenology is proposed that both acknowledges the objectivity of the dream and traces the origin of its meaning to its translation into language. Following a review of recent...
Journal of Analytical Psychology
1998
James S. Grotstein
In the Freudian and Kleinian conception of unconscious mental life, credence is given to the existence and functioning of peremptory instinctual drives as the putative causation of all mental life, yet they are denied an organization or a personality. It is especially when we come to the notion of how dreams are created or how the free associations of an analytic hour are orchestrated that we...
Journal of Analytical Psychology
July 1, 1996
David Tresan
33 citations
This paper deals with brain research and depth psychology. Because brain research is becoming significantly more sophisticated and increasingly able to assay the neurobiology of subjective (i.e., mental) events in vivo, it is suggested that any school of depth psychology will probably not survive as a mainstream treatment modality if its theory and practice is found to be in frank variance with...
Journal of Analytical Psychology
April 1, 1996
Mario NúAñez Molina
6 citations
In this paper a comparison is made between Jung's approach to healing with a traditional healing system practised in Puerto Rico, called ‘Espiritismo’. Jungian psychology and ‘Espiritismo’ have several strong similarities in their conception of the therapeutic process, similarities which suggest that the healing process itself has generic properties which can be found in several therapeutic...
Journal of Analytical Psychology
July 1, 1994
Jude U. Ohaeri, Adegbenga M. Sunmola
5 citations
In order to highlight the pattern of dreams, the psychosocial factors associated with it, and the meaning attributed to dream contents, 431 Nigerians were interviewed, consisting of undergraduates and government workers. While 6.9% could not recall ever having had a dream experience, over one-third of subjects had had at least three dream experiences in the previous three months. The most...