ABSTRACT

The goal of this chapter is to show the effects of considering the complex as an attractor in a dynamic landscape on the Jungian theory of the ego complex as an assembly of complexes. I will point out areas where Jung and modern research overlap as well as areas of difference. I present in detail recent research in neuroscience on the developing brain. It is not my intention to either support or oppose Jung’s theories on child development, nor to review the extensive writings of other Jungian authors – this has been done already (Jacoby 1999, Knox 2003) – but to extend Jung’s work with research findings which were not available until very recently.