Memories, Dreams, Reflections

“My life is a story of the self-realization of the unconscious. Everything in the unconscious seeks outward manifestation, and the personality too desires to evolve out of its unconscious conditions and to experience itself as a whole.”

The holistic nature of Jung’s Individuation as a Process of Personal Evolution is revealed in every aspect of his autobiography. As Jung explains and explores the development of his ideas about consciousness and mythology, he applies them to his own experiences through analytical psychology. He uses active imagination to examine the recurring images, or archetypes, that pervade his memories and dreams. This approach creates a circle between his work and his life, recalling the symbol of the mandala that Jung uses to represent wholeness.

“Though I became increasingly aware of the beauty of the bright daylight world where ‘golden sunlight filters through green leaves,’ at the same time I had a premonition of an inescapable world of shadows filled with frightening, unanswerable questions.”

Dualities are central to The Architecture of the Self. Jung describes individuation as a process of pulling out the archetypes of the unconscious and merging them with conscious experience to create psychic wholeness. In the architecture of the psyche, consciousness and unconsciousness help create a perfect circle. This circle is the self, incorporating both light and