ABSTRACT
C. J. Jung’s psychological ideas have been with us for more than eighty years. The greater our distance in time to his Analytical Psychology is becoming, the more it becomes truly historical for us. This entails the great advantage over against first generation Jungians that we are perhaps a little freer both from the narrowly partisan involvement in the controversies of the early depth-psychological movement and from a dogmatic approach to Jung’s statements. In order to get some idea about the intellectual needs Analytical Psychology is driven by, the chapter looks at five main motives or moves that give Jung’s psychological thinking its thrust: the “final” or synthetic orientation, the revaluation of neurosis as psychologically legitimate and therapeutic, the interest in individuation, the transcendence of the personalistic limitations of psychology towards the idea of a transpersonal psyche, and the critical self-reflection of psychology.
