The Angel in Annunciation and Synchronicity by Tammy L. Montgomery

Author:Tammy L. Montgomery
Language: eng
Format: epub, pdf
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Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012-08-05T16:00:00+00:00

Everything that surrounds the self also corresponds to it in some way in order to illustrate the complete person. Jung says that “this totality comprises consciousness first of all, then the personal unconscious, and finally an indefinitely large segment of the collective unconscious whose archetypes are common to all.” Some of these archetypes such as the anima, animus, and shadow fall within the realm of the individual’s personality. Others are situated further from the center, though all contribute in some way to what Jung calls the “composite thing,” what Hindu practitioners call the “conglomerate soul” (1969e, par. 629-34).

Even though the mandala is a recognized symbol of Eastern thought, Jung noted the tendency on the part of his own analysands to depict certain psychic states of mind or stages of progression in their psychic development through mandala imagery. This led Jung to equate the individual’s drive toward wholeness, what he called the process of individuation, with the mandala. As Jung states, “The goal of the psychotherapeutic process, the self-regulation of the psyche by means of the natural drive towards individuation, is expressed by the . . . mandala” (1976b, par. 1162).[5]

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