ABSTRACT
Jung’s use of the term “psychoid” in his published work dates, with one outlying exception, to the late period, 1947 to 1958. In these eleven years, there are barely a dozen references, mostly in passing, half of which are in published letters to a variety of correspondents. Jung’s life-long project might be described in terms of his attempt to establish relationships between two worlds. In Memories, Dreams, Reflections, he locates this interest in his perception of himself as two personalities. Jung’s project of conceptualising and investigating the working relationships between two worlds is also the clinical terrain of every psychotherapist. All psychodynamic psychotherapeutic approaches speak of making connections between the conscious and unconscious mind. The history of the development of the concept and practice of interpretation has yet to be written and a study of it would shed much light on the ways in which both psychoanalysis and analytical psychology have developed during the first century of their existence.
