ABSTRACT
The prospective function of the psyche, as experienced by Jung, contributed greatly to his personal healing of traumatic events in his life. This chapter examines briefly the psychological aspect that contributed to some of his personal inability to see his own complexes and their influences upon his psychology. The historical component is personal history; the prospective or constructive dimension is creative psychic potential. Jung distinguished affect from feeling. Affect is demarcated by perceptible physical innervations but feeling lacked this physical component, or it is very slight. The innervations are the physiological dimension of an emotion, while the disturbance of consciousness and ego, as well as the ideational component are private, that is psychic. The chapter focuses on representations of emotions. Jung's intense focus on the images of emotional complexes can be largely explained by his psychological disposition. The images are functional symbols of the emotion.
