Carl Gustav Jung was a Swiss psychiatrist and the founder of analytical psychology, a tradition that takes dreams, symbols and unconscious patterns seriously in understanding a person’s life.
His work asks, among other things, what happens when the person you know yourself to be leaves important parts of your experience outside the picture.
The respectable version isn’t necessarily the whole cast.
Perhaps independence is central to how you recognise yourself. A wish to be cared for then feels awkward, excessive or not quite like you.
A Jungian question would make room for the wish rather than assume the familiar identity must remain unchanged. That is an illustrative connection, not a diagnosis or a claim that every conflict has the same explanation.
I AWAKE uses some related language around image and inner life, while its books and guided experiences remain its own authored work.
Persona examines the social face. Shadow looks at qualities that become difficult to acknowledge. Active imagination introduces a practice of engaging with images rather than simply decoding them.
The International Association for Analytical Psychology’s Carl Gustav Jung introduces Jung’s life and work. It is a reliable place to begin before attaching his name to every attractive sentence about the unconscious.
The C.G. Jung Institute Zurich’s history of the institute offers the institutional history of the institute he helped establish, with a route into the tradition beyond this introductory article.