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WHEN FREUD AND JUNG BROKE with each other in 1912, Freud took the personal psyche for his domain and Jung the archetypal psyche for his, to the great impoverishment of both. Since then Jungian analysts have worked primarily outside the mainstream of the psychoanalytic movement, but in recent years interest in psychoanalytic thinking has been growing in the Jungian community. At this point in time many Jungian analysts have familiarized themselves with much of the psychoanalytic literature and have begun the task of integrating that vast and multi-faceted tradition with their own. The psychoanalytic tradition is an incredibly complex and divergent one. Psychoanalysts can identify themselves as Freudians, Kleinians, Interpersonalists, Self-psychologists, or members of the British School of Object Relations, among other possibilities. Each of these approaches offers something of value for clinical work.1 The Jungian tradition also has something unique to offer, and it is my hope that the next few decades will see some rapproachment between the Jungian school and the rest of the psychoanalytic community fostering a dialogue that will be mutually profitable.
In that spirit, I would like to offer this paper, describing the essence of Jung's particular view of the transference-countertransference experience along with an example of its clinical application. Since each tradition offers something of value to depth psychology,