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Several Years Ago, I made a List of what I Thought were the important concepts from my Jungian training that were still of value to me in my practice as a Jungian analyst. I asked myself, “What marks my clinical work and my way of thinking as a Jungian?”
A profound respect for the inner world, for psychic reality.
Experience of the existence of both a personal and collective unconscious.
Experience of the religious function of the psyche.
Experiences of certain archetypal patterns that influenced my existence—initiatory ritual, mother—daughter separation, expulsion from paradise, sibling rivalry, death and rebirth, and alchemical processes.
Experience of the relationship between ego and Self. Seeing the psyche structured this way—ego enriched by Self, Self informed by ego, Self as the center of personality. Jung's idea of the psyche with two centers (ego and Self) is perhaps his most important contribution.
Viewing psyche as having certain structures—ego, Self, persona, shadow, anima, animus.
Interest in typology. Valuing of different personality types; valuing introversion as well as extraversion; valuing thinking, feeling, intuition, and sensation.