ABSTRACT
The author asks, what influence does it have on the understanding of complexes and dreams, and thus on our clinical work, if we consistently assume that the basis of personality is affectivity, as C.G. Jung understood it and how it is currently understood by Jaak Panksepp, a leader in affective neuroscience? Does Panksepp’s idea of enriching or replacing predominant emotions with compensatory emotions bring a constructive dynamic to the stagnation associated with constellated complex episodes?
