ABSTRACT
In 1912 C. G. Jung wrote The psychology of the unconscious. Jung's caveat surely refers to theories and to classifications that become defensive or masquerade as 'science' to hide their autonomous sterility. Jung divides the four hundred dreams of his patient into groups of fifty and shows that the number of mandalas increases significantly in each group over the whole series. The other sources of Jung's studies are derived from comparative religion, folklore and alchemy, with the aid of which he succeeded in generalizing, illuminating and amplifying his clinical observations. Jung repeatedly refers to the self as an archetype. The position is quite different when applied to theory in the present sense, for neither the totality theory nor the archetype concept refers to the contents of the self but to its place in the theoretical model of the psyche. The central ego has a special relation to what, with some hesitation, may be called the central archetype of order.
