Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of the book. The book draws our attention to the Germanic understanding of scientific discovery. There were two approaches: natural science, and what can only imprecisely be translated as spiritual science, or life science. The book expresses that Jung's contribution to the theory of emotional complexes has consilience with other empirically construed approaches to psychology in that Jung focused upon the psychic representation of emotions as images. It explores the implications of Jung's theory of the emotional complex for current scientific approaches to psychology. The book considers implications for Jungian psychology of contemporary neurological revolutions, and offers a manner of conceiving Jung's affect-based complex theory in light of the findings. It offers a view that may be helpful in reconnecting ideas of brain and psyche; that is, some academic approaches and some of Jung's views.