Jungian Analysis and Biology

A version of this article was originally published in Quadrant: Journal of the C. G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, Vol. 29, 1. Copyright: C. G. Jung Foundation for Analytical Psychology, Inc., 1999. All rights reserved.

What is analysis?
How can it help?
Why Jungian analysis?
How does it relate to biology?

I address all these questions in the article that follows.
(Matisse: Casbah Gate)

In a previous career I was an experimental scientist in molecular biology; now I am a Jungian analyst. As an analyst I sense that there are non-rational forces at work. I encounter numinous images and I find that the psyche has its own goals which are independent of mine. But as a biologist I seek rational explanations. My two points of view, that of a biologist and that of an analyst, are in conflict. The conflict has led to this paper. (Medieval, Catalan: "Nativity")
I argue that relatedness is a central goal of individuation. In brief, to......

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