ABSTRACT
Jung developed his theory of the psyche at first without concern for metaphysics using a biological formulation of archetypes as instinctual functions. Later in life, however, Jung ventured into metaphysical territory when he forwarded the idea that archetypes may be ordering principles behind both matter and psyche. Jung tried to avoid metaphysics along the way, but was ultimately unable to escape it, thus it remains to develop a way to integrate analytical psychology with a metaphysical system other than physicalism, with which it is incompatible. In this chapter, the primary objection to physicalism—the explanatory gap problem—is reviewed, and the alternative metaphysical systems that better fit analytical psychology are explored. Ultimately we find that cosmopsychism is the system that appears to best ground analytical psychology metaphysically.
