What is Jungian (Analytical) Psychology?

Acquainted with Jung’s work, mythologist Joseph Campbell said it well:

"It would not be too much to say that myth is the secret opening through which the inexhaustible energies of the cosmos pour into human cultural manifestation… In the absence of an effective general mythology, each of us has his private, unrecognized, rudimentary, yet secretly potent pantheon of dream. The latest incarnation of Oedipus, the continued romance of Beauty and the Beast, stand this afternoon on the corner of Forty-second Street and Fifth Avenue, waiting for the traffic light to change." (The Hero With a Thousand Faces)

This is why Jung spoke about the need to live one’s own myth.

Since its founding, Jungian psychology has evolved and diverged, but its core preoccupation remains what I think of as soulfulness, a capacity for living in wholehearted accord with the personal and collective depths of psyche. Like the angel mentioned in one of Arthur Miller’s plays, depth work brings back to us those aspects of psychical life we tend to lose. In this way it compensates the shallowness of our ism-torn time by embodying the great polarities that shift and energize the ground of mindful being.

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