ABSTRACT
It is of course highly significant, and very characteristic for C. J Jung’s work, that Jung felt the need to make something as alien to psychology as alchemy a constituent element of his own psychological theory. Psychology in Jung’s view, so we can interpret this finding, requires otherness, difference—though not an utterly external other, something totally irrelevant, but its own internal other. Psychology must reflect itself in and base itself on a true. At any rate, through alchemy Jungian psychology has, on a theoretical level, its own other or foreign body within itself. It thus exists as an internal tension. ” The psychology of the unconscious accepts this, except that it adds a second, alternate source from which the mind’s contents can come: in addition to the world out there in front of the mind it has also “the unconscious” in the back of the mind.
