ABSTRACT
These two papers place some of Jung’s most important concepts concerning the structure and function of the psyche in a clinical context. Roderick Peters gives examples which demonstrate the essential unity of the archetypal and the developmental perspectives. Peters regards this as Jung’s own approach which has been widened to absorb the subsequent understandings of developmental psychology and the value of transference. Sheila Powell’s paper engages with the notion that painting and writing and ‘whichever media the unconscious prescribes’ will, as Jung suggested, lower the threshold of consciousness and enhance understanding of the opposites in human nature. By linking the development of Jung’s original concept of active imagination to the work of present-day depth psychologists-such as Winnicott and Bion-she is able to show how progress towards individuation through play and dreaming is assisted by the role of the transcendent function.
