Carl Jung's Model of the Mind

Undergraduate / Graduate

This course will delve into the theoretical corpus of C.G. Jung, one of the foremost thinkers in 20th-century depth psychology. Together we will read and discuss works by Jung and his followers which address such questions as: the role that archetypes such as "the shadow" play in our unconscious, the phenomenon of synchronicity, the coincidence of opposites, and the painful impact on our psyche that childhood "complexes" regularly incite. We will also study the massive impact of Jung's work on contemporary mental health, e.g., in the Meyers-Briggs personality test, Alcoholics Anonymous, dream analysis, and active imagination-the latter of which is regularly deployed in contemporary IFS practice.