Jungian analysis relies on the ability to translate archetypal images into clinically useful concepts. Those seeking to understand the unconscious from a Jungian point of view must acquire a penetrative knowledge of the relationship between theoretical and philosophical material and the depths of the human psyche, and on this basis develop the ability to evaluate and interpret psychic products.
Jung states in Mysterium (CW 14:668):
Symbols are tendencies whose goal is as yet unknown. In psychotherapy it often happens that certain unconscious tendencies betray their presence by symbols, occurring mostly in dreams but also in waking fantasies and symbolic actions. Often we have the impression that the unconscious is making more or less playful attempts to attract attention to itself.
Jung further states in CW8:410:
Confrontation with an archetype is an ethical problem of the first magnitude, the urgency of which is felt only by people who find themselves faced with the need to assimilate the unconscious and integrate their personalities.
Reader, I trust that you are one of those people!
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