ABSTRACT
Considering Jung’s lifetime work on psychological development, what he meant by ‘development’ does not seem straightforward, and the terms ‘development’ and ‘developmental’ have been used in analytical psychology in various ways. Despite Jung’s interests in various kinds of development,1 his theory is not referred to in literature on developmental psychology as significantly as those of other psychologists and psychoanalysts, for instance, G. Stanley Hall and Sigmund Freud, who formulated stage models of development. In this chapter, we shall look at Jung’s view on ‘development’ in comparison with the shifting understandings of development in the history of developmental psychology. By examining the close relationship between the notions of ‘recapitulation’ and ‘development’, particular foci will be placed on the notion of progress and stage models of development.
