What is Jungian Analysis?
Jungian analysis is “a meeting of two people, a meeting between two psychic wholes; an encounter, a discussion … the goal is transformation, an indeterminable change”
(Jung, CW 11).
People come to Jungian Analysis for many reasons - a crisis in life, a search for meaning, a story that has been hidden and needs to be told. For whatever reason, there is often an experiencing of symptoms that make life difficult or unpleasant. Jungian Analysis looks at symptoms as the place of healing, therefore it is not something to be got rid of. In Jungian Analysis, Analyst and client are in a vessel together, looking at the wound together, listening to psyche, to the unconscious. We go inwards into the psychic house, or the forest, and find images that bring healing.
Jungian analysis does not seek to “cure” or “fix”. The goal of transformation is achieved through the painful incorporation and integration of the many different parts of one’s self, that come to us in symbols.
