ABSTRACT
It is the purpose of this paper to affirm that, although jung seems to have denied it, the individuation process and the creative process are closely analogous. Both artists and scientists are concerned with bringing about new syntheses, and with integrating opposites; and the state of mind which artists and scientists describe as conducive to new discovery is the same as that which Jung advocated for active imagination. In order to demonstrate this, it is necessary to recall some of Jung’s fundamental hypotheses about mental health, mental illness, and the development of personality.
