ABSTRACT
Common usage often conflates ethics and morals. In this paper a distinction is implied throughout between morality and ethics. Morality is indicated by the adherence to a set of stated principles or rules which govern behaviour. Whereas ethics implies an attitude achieved through judgment, discernment, and conscious struggle, often between conflicting rights or duties. This chapter seeks to address the question of whether Jung's model concerning the structure and processes of the psyche can offer us a specific and helpful approach to understanding the ethical attitude, and, in particular, the ethical attitude underpinning psychotherapeutic practice. Jung pursued his studies concerning the structure and dynamics of the self throughout the decades of his working life until his death, and a number of contemporary Jungian theorists and clinicians have carried on the enquiry that Jung had begun. The struggle for psychological wholeness and the integration of the projected shadow brings pain and requires sacrifice.
