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The following paper by J.W. Perry is published with permission from the Annals of the New York Academy of the Sciences where it was first published in January 1962. It was later republished by the San Francisco Jung Institute in 1971. For some readers the paper is an enlightening foray into the depth and breadth of Perry's original research carried out in San Francisco. It offers a significant analytical perspective on the psychotic process and schizophrenia, built on Jung's early work at the Burghölzli. For others, who are already familiar with Perry's work, the editors view its republication in this Journal as furthering the historical continuity of the important thread of research and clinical thought on psychosis and schizophrenia in analytical psychology.
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The aspect of the self that I propose to discuss is a phenomenological one, in the sense of being empirically observed, for it concerns the interplay of certain themes of imagery in the unconscious psyche. By the “unconscious,” I mean that autonomous psyche that is undirected by the ego and outside its comprehension, and that is innate and archaic in its modalities. The imagery I refer to is a whole class of symbolic representations of centrality and