ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on the intellectual context for Jung's ideas, and presents an overview of Jungian scholarship, the concepts of psyche and their interrelationship within a transcendent framework. The interplay of opposites is crucial to Jungian psychology Opposition is a necessary condition for the psyche as the very conflict and tension initiated by antithetical forces creates the energy needed by the psyche to generate its momentum and dynamism. The psyche is envisaged as a self-regulatory system, comprising entities of opposites within the conscious and unconscious that continually negotiates to generate a fluid meaning, or personal mythology, to the individual. Jung became more impressed by the objective dimension of psychic experience: although one feel psyche is inside us, psyche reveals itself as a cosmos in its own right. Jung greatly valued ancient philosophical traditions because of their keen perception of the objectivity of the soul.
