ABSTRACT
The psychological 'transcendent function' arises from the union of conscious and unconscious contents. The three vertices establish a nexus of associations that is anchored in the subject's life at the moment. The burden will then be on the subject to make use of the experience for incarnational purposes. "There is nothing mysterious or metaphysical about the term 'transcendent function'. It means a psychological function comparable in its way to a mathematical function of the same name, which is a function of real and imaginary numbers". The transcendent function as he thought of it in 1916 is nothing more and nothing less than a combination of conscious and unconscious contents, a melding of solar and lunar minds contents. The transcendent function typically contains archetypal images and energies and thus moves an individual's identity onto a partially symbolic level. The Divinity, or Ground of Being, is made manifest and becomes incarnated in consciousness, or consciousness in it.
