ABSTRACT
As a therapeutics, mediation adopts theory and practice which ultimately end up making the world of mediation, which is heavily dependent on the discourses brought to the mediation table as it were. Mediation relies very heavily on the activity of memory, of a capacity for revision, and an acceptance of the nature and fallibility of memory. Mediation practice needs to take cognizance of the role of memory and that the actors create a world which they then inhabit, and the language and discourse of which, is necessarily fluid and mobile, using memory and memories. In the Jungian corpus non-conscious memory, conceived of as individual and collective unconscious is unearthed through a process of conscious reflection and symbol analysis. Participants use discourse appropriate language to describe and explain the troubles that beset the soul who has come to psychotherapy. Jung's idea of collective unconscious and archetypes suggest a radical social constructionism.
