ABSTRACT
This chapter argues that C.G. Jung’s emphasis on the importance of all temporal dimensions is a significant and crucial contribution to psychoanalytic practices which are concerned with possibilities for change and the importance of imagination rather than explanations. It discusses his notion of a collective unconscious as existing beyond the individual’s lived history. The chapter explores Jung’s theorising of synchronicity, which relies on the notion of the collective unconscious. It focuses on the problems of Jung’s development of a psychology of nations in order to theorize cultural differences. Jung’s antiveness to the details in the woman’s narrative regarding her present conflict is very evident. In encouraging the patient to amplify the details in her description he enables the emergence of the conscious and unconscious meanings of her experience. Jung recognizes the value of dreams as revealing the unconscious transference aspects of the patient’s relationship to the analyst.
